sorry, it's another dog thread!

[boschy]

Can't find the most recent dog on a beach thread, but this has just happened to me this afternoon.

Walking 2 Labs along the beach today - walked up to the "no dogs" barrier (a concrete groyne) and went up the steps to get off the beach and continue along. Dogs not on the lead yet - they didnt have to be - but under control, walking nicely to heel, ready to go on lead at the top of the steps.

Got screamed at by 2 women who asked if I couldnt read the sign, and their kids were playing on the beach and I was out of order. Should say, their kids were about 50 yds away, me and the dogs had walked past them with no interest in kids from dogs whatsoever, neither did either dog pee/poo.

So I said well actually, the bit of beach I was on was open to dogs, and that I live here, and I do know the rules etc etc. Got called a "pig-ignorant fucking irresponsible dog-owning cunt"!!! At which point I am ashamed to say I just told them Fuck Off (kids still 50yds away I hasten to add). AIBU???

nope as you said it was dog friendly part of the beach,we had this when we took our dog to beach was sat on the bit dogs are allowed he was playing with our kids family sat down had lo with them,screamed at us to fuck off with the dog,told them dogs were allowed and other dogs on beach too if they didnt like it they could walk the 20 yards back from where they came from and sit on beach with its no dogs!

Yanbu. She was being an idiot. Good for on standing up to her

Wow, they said all that before you crossed the line. So you were still in doggy territory. Maybe they had that speech rehearsed for the first dog owner they saw.

IMO cunt trumps fuck off so I wouldn't worry about swearing at them. YANBU.

"pig-ignorant fucking irresponsible dog-owning cunt"!!! Wow, I am rather in awe of that level of swearing at a random stranger.

YANBU btw and I would have added 'you fucking fuckwits' to your 'fuck off'.

I like "wankstain" as an insult, personally..... they were outrageous, not just the swearyness but the whole thing.

You poor thing! That sounds horrific. Not surprised you swore back. Console yourselves with the knowledge that to be that nasty, unkind and offensive to a total stranger doing no wrong, they must lead really miserable, unhappy lives. Though having said that, you have to pity the poor kids with them though.

good to hear IWNBU... if they had been 5yds further away on the other side of the groyne they could have complained, but they were in the wrong place and I was effing RIGHT!!! their kids were miles away, the dogs weren't interested in their kids or them, it just makes me grrrrrrr.

obvioulsy you are in the right - you are on dog part of beach but the sad thing is - this is what happens with irresponsible dog owners im afraid, i am a dog owner and my dog is a small lap dog - i usually have to fend people off her - petting her...

rather than blame the women who were un doubedlty rude and ott - just think that maybe they have had a nasty experience in the past - and were really worried. ..it wasnt persoanl to you....

unless dog owners start to accept that some people are afraid of dogs - they do not have your dogs personality on a leaflett from them to read before your dog bounds up to thier children ( i know yours didnt op), and that as plenty of a and e nurses have said on mumsnet - its usualy the " friendly family dog that never hurt a fly" that suddenly turned one day i think we will see more of this!

as a dog owner myself - my patience is runing thin with people just allowing larger dogs to run free and bound round up to strangers.

I think she had probably spent a lot of the time there on high-alert, waiting for someone to have a go at. Because it was so irrational, maybe eliza has a point, and they'd had a bad experience.

I was thinking of getting a dog, but the whole do-owning thing seems as stressful as having a naughty toddler - if they aren't mis-behaving, someone will be ready to claim that they were

... there is no excuse for her swearing like that. Silly twat

absolved x

ok, but if you have had a bad experience with a dog (which I have had in the past) why the hell would you go and be on the dog bit of the beach??

I truly understand that people are afraid, or they dont like dogs or whatever, and that is their perfect right to feel like that, and owners are obliged to be in charge and pick up after their dogs etc etc. But if that is the case, why go on the bit of the beach which is open to dog owners? and then take exception to the dog owners doing what they are allowed to do?

As a contrast, on the way back I met 2 little girls, about 8yo, swimming in the sea who called out and said they "wouldnt mind" if I threw the dogs' ball towards them. so we had a lovely 10 mins or so with me throwing the ball to the girls, the dogs swimming out to the girls, retrieving the ball ad infinitum. it was really lovely.

boschy - Oh yes, I totally agree. It's like they were looking for aggro