To tell Dog owners control you fecking dogs!

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I'll get flamed I don't care. I'm fed up of people letting their dogs run wild just had another dog clamour all over me when I'm walking down the street with a 'sorry' from the owner again this happens to often. Last week a dog off its lead stuck its head near my child pram.
Its simple if you can't control your dog off its lead then keep it on its lead until you get to the park.
I think I'm going to go nuclear next time :(

Yanbu I bloody hate this, I like dogs but am allergic to them so I don't want them jumping up at me,shedding fur and slobbering on me!

And my kids aren't allergic but I have taught them they must not approach or touch a dog without checking with its owner, yet the amount of Times people let their dogs jump up on them!

I was out recently with dd and she was walking holding my hand, a man had a dog on one of those extendable leads and let the dog run up to dd and it jumped up, paws on her shoulders! She is 3 and was terrified. The owners reply "he is just being friendly, he likes to say hello" Ffs!

Lots of my friends and relatives have dogs and are all responsible dog owners, sadly some people are not.

Dog owner here who thinks YANBU - if you can't control your dog you need to keep it on a lead.

It makes me so angry when people don't train/control their dogs properly - it gives all other dog owners a bad name and frequently results in dogs who can't be rehomed when the original owner gives up.

As for dog poo, if you don't want to pick it up, don't get a dog.

Oh do not get me started. I cameu out of PILs flat a couple of weeks ago and some type of bull mastiff esq dog lunged at me and the owner was struggling to keep it under control. I'm 29 weeks pregnant. I swore in English at them as they seem to make our it was my fault. A massive failing here.

Out with our dog on the beach last summer and two huge dogs ran up and wouldn't go away. Circling and barking and jumping. They came up to my waist. Stupid dumb bint of an owner standing 200 metres away calling ineffectually and finally walked up to pull them off and blamed us and our dog, who was on a lead and terrified, and about a tenth of the size, for it saying he wasn't under control. Dh absolutely tore into her and reported her.

The amount of incidents with my last dog was ridiculous too.

It's not the dogs. It's the owners. Some people should not be allowed to own animals if they can't be responsible and keep them under control. Why on earth do people get dogs they cannot control properly?

Agree with the OP. We also have a dog who we have spent a lot of time and money training and I am very, very confident she wouldn't jump up. However there is no way I would let her off lead at either the park or pavement. I also don't walk her to school. My eldest son at primary age used to be terrified of dogs and I just didn't need the aggravation of persuading him to walk past the dogs tied up at the gates at the end of the day.

It's not difficult to find dog friendly off lead walks where we live, so I don't understand the urge to take the dog to the park etc.

Our house fronts straight on to the pavement on the route to the school. At least 4 times a week there is dog poo outside. It gives us the rage! My DH has phoned the warden and is contemplating CCTV (I'm only half joking!), as we are convinced it's the same dog.

So YANBU.

Another dog owner here, who agrees. I have large dogs (german shepherds and dobermann) and am very conscious that although mine are v. well trained and soppy, they are big guard dogs & a lot of people are frightened of them - so I ALWAYS have them on lead or walking to heel.

I hate it when I have my dogs under control and someone else's out-of-control lunatic dog comes galloping over to us. Even worse when I had the pushchair and PFB.

I also hate it when they leave poo and don't pick it up - or even worse, when they leave bags of stinking putrid shit rotting by the side of the path.

Dog poo is nowhere near as bad in the UK compared to the Netherlands. No one picks up after their dogs in cities as they expect the council to come round and clear it up. In my area the council haven't been out for about a month or more to do this and it's completely disgusting. My poor dog who I do pick up after has to search for ages for somewhere to go as the grass areas are just covered. There are supposed to be areas for dogs to go and areas that are not for dogs but no one pays any attention.

I won't even begin to describe the smell now it's getting warmer.

And on the beach where people are supposed to pick up some do and some don't. They just move sand over it. This is where kids play fgs. So so gross. But there's no culture at all of cleaning up.

And yes to out of control dogs rushing up to mine. They are liable to get a warning growl as he's so protective of me at the moment so we keep him close on the lead and only let him off where it is quiet. You don't know that someone else's dog will or won't be OK so put a blinking lead on the thing if you can't keep it to heel!

In our last hours, dog poo on the pavement was rife. It was awful.

I started a campaign called CRAP.
Campaign for Residents Against Poo. A few of us mums stuck leaflets on lamposts and made out we were official-like. everyone thought I was a bit bonkers but who cares...

The thing with this "he's friendly". How am I supposed to know?
If my 6'4, broad shouldered, muscular but very friendly mate ran towards you, what would your first thought be? fear would be my guess. why is it any different if a dog is running towards you?

*In our last house!

Sorry for rant. Yanbu at all op. This really gets on my goat as what should be a nice walk cam turn so stressful.

I know im going off a bit but i also hate people tying dogs up outside building. At my sons nursery one of the mums tyed her dog up right outside the front door and it must have been frightened as all the kids went went past and it attacked a little girl cut open all her hand and the mum was there as well and couldn't stop it. The whole thing was horrific. I also thing dogs should always be on leads. You may trust your dog but i dont.

I hate ineffectual calling. Like if you're having a picnic and a dog comes over and the owner stands 20 meters+ away just standing calling it whilst the dog ignores them. Just come and get your bloody dog!

This ^^. This is what my MiL does She then gets very defensive when people are less than pleased with her. When we're with her, I just want to have sandwich board attached to me "I am not associated with this dog owner!"

I'm a dog owner and I agree with you OP.

Mine can not be trusteed to always do as she is told off lead, so she isnt allowed off lead in public places. (We have a massive garden so she gets plenty of running around plus a long walk each day)

She hates it when large dogs come bounding up to her. As mine is on a lead, she really doesn't like it, so becomes frightened, shaky and aggressive. The fecking owners then usually say something along the lines of "mines very friendly, such as shame he only wants to play".

I've started shouting at owners who let their dogs rush up mine "call your dog away, mine WILL bite". That usually does the trick

I was talking with a friend on Saturday, reminiscing. Dog licences used to be 7/6d (37½p) per year when they were discontinued in about 1987. We both agreed that it should be reintroduced with a price of at least £500 per dog per year. That might do something about the problem.

"stuck its head near my child pram"

What does that mean?

We walk off lead in woods, which is well known around here for being popular with dog walkers. At the weekend we were walking through, dogs just off the path to the right of us when there comes a shout from a path running parallel "Call your dogs back, NOW"
Didn't think that meant us, as ours were just sniffing and mooching, but I did anyway because it sounded like there could have been an out of control dog.
Then followed another shout "Put your dogs on leads, before they get bitten"

Person was walking their dog, off lead, not muzzled KNOWING it was vicious, and it was down to us to lead our dogs if we didn't want them hurt.
Charming.

Some people are knobs.

I think most dog owners simply don't understand how dogs think. If they did, they wouldn't let their dogs pull them along on the lead, gasping and wheezing as they strain to be in front, or nick food without being allowed, or beg.

We were walking near my parents' new house this weekend. Is a retirement area, very quiet, and inevitably we came across a resident old lady with one of those stupid little dogs that look like a rat on a string. It was walking her, not the other way around. As we passed her the fucking thing had a good snap and strain to get to us: our four year old DD, who knows well to leave strange dogs alone and who practically walked off the pavement to keep her distance from it, DH carrying baby DS, my mother and I.

Did the owner do anything at all to make her dog behave so we could walk past? She had plenty of warning, by the way, it wasnt like we loomed out of nowhere. I think you know the answer to that one... Had we not been with my mother (who, after all, is going to have to get on with her neighbours) I think it would have felt DH's steel toe cap prodding its arse....

The majority of dog owners I come across are great, but it's the few that aren't which you tend to remember. It only takes one dog owner to leave their pet's poo in the park, but once your toddler has stepped in it you really feel annoyed with each and every dog.

I have to say I think there's a lot less dog poo around than when I was growing up (70/80's). I remember it being everywhere and lying so long it turned white!

I don't know what the answer is really. I like to see people out and about with their dogs and most are absolutely fine.

Where we live (not UK) a lot of owners who have dogs let their dogs run free throughout the day- off lead, wandering around the town, when owner is at work or whatever. There's a massive stray dog problem too, and so with the owned dogs joining in, the diseases are spread, bins are rifled through, it's chaotic and also bad for the dogs themselves. It really, really infuriates me.

I was bitten by a dog and ended up in A&E getting 5 stitches and antibiotics even though I was only walking along a public road, and had no idea the dogs were there! According to the owner, they "went after me" because I was walking away from them.

They aren't always friendly - it was the more terrifying feeling in the world to suddenly hear two dogs run up behind you and feel one of them clamp and not release your leg for several seconds. And oh my goodness, dog bites really sting - I think due to the bacteria in their mouths. And their teeth penetrate very deep.

I'm an adult and I'm so lucky the other dog didn't attack me either, as by the time the owner caught up, I could have been on the ground having my face bitten.

Sad to say, but I think too many people have dogs. They don't know how to handle or train animals or can't be bothered. Less dogs should be bred and less should be kept as pets.

I was having a picnic once and a large dog came along and helped himself to our food, I was pulling him away and asked the owner to call his dog he said it was my fault as food on the ground meant it was food for the dog wtf

I personally do not think many dogs are that well trained, if they were so well trained why do so many approach strangers I do not want dogs coming up to me and sniffing me

I know a couple of owners whose dogs stay off their leads because they are well trained and come to attention whenever they are called.

BUT my neighbour has 3 large collies who are out of control! She lets them wander all over our neighbours' front gardens and poo everywhere. She freely admits that 'they chase cats' and they have already terrified my poor cat.

Luckily she only has shared custody of them so they are not around all the time or we would fall out. She should keep them on leads or actually train them!

YANBU.

In all the cases of antisocial behaviour it seems the problems may stem from lack of enforcement of by laws.
Is it the police or the local council who are responsible for holding offenders to account?
I am a dog owner who leashes and picks up after my dog, but I have had loads of occasions where unwanted attention from other dogs has caused distress.
I don't suppose anyone will post on here to defend why they are happy for their dog to cause distress to others.

Maybe a solution would be to do as that grandad did. Maybe we should all carry water pistols to deter the unwanted attention.

Meant to say that before I put up a 6 foot fence at the back of my garage one of my neighbour's collies jumped over the small fence into my garden and chased my terrified cat! Luckily she could jump onto a higher fence.

My daft neighbour now can't understand why I made the fence between us so high!