To think some dog owners think they own the bloody park?

[MissThang]

Was just on way to the park with kids, saw a group of ladies standing having a chit chat quite loudly with about four dogs in tow, two huge ones and a couple of smaller ones. They were blocking the corner path but there was plenty of room in the middle of them. A young woman with a double buggy and toddler holding her hand walked through the middle, cue a load of horrible tutting and loud remarks about how rude it was/how children won't learn manners from parents etc. The woman looked a bit miffed but carried on walking. It just seemed so unnecessary, the woman's toddler looked like she was playing up and wanted to go near the dogs...which wouldn't always be safe, so she walked quickly through. No need for the loud rude comments from them IMO.

seems to happen lots in my local area, dog walkers blocking paths or letting the dogs all over forbidden parkland. Dogs all over seats at local outside cafés. Anyone have this problem where they live at all?

No , it's usually people with massive buggies and multiple kids taking up all the space :o

Swings and roundabouts

I know what you mean Giles and I do actually agree in one sense...people using buses regularly with ridiculously huge buggies...but I see more dog owners with an entitled attitude tbh

Nope, not in my area either, although I did get harangued by a bloke walking (exercising) on a specified Dog Walk Route. Apparently, even though its a signposted dog walk, if humans choose to walk on it then they should come first.

Umm, no?

Entitled people are everywhere, not limited to specific pets ownership.

The people were rude, but perhaps an excuse me please would have also been polite.

I think people need to learn to co exist and not assume you are more important because you have a dog or a child with you.

Consideration all round.

People stand around chatting in supermarkets so trollies can't get past. People refuse to move out the way purely because they were "there first"

And some people expect the moon on a stick because they have a child. Ergo a dog shouldn't be within 50 ft of anybody ever in a public place...

If only everyone could just be nice. Problem solved.

And that includes keeping children under control!! Dogs need walking. Hold their hand if there a dogs about rather than making out the dog owners are in the wrong for dating to leave house with dogs on a lead and be in a public area

I think there are just entitked people all over and some of them own dogs!

I was walking my dog in the park and stopped to talk to another dog owner who was sitting on a bench. I was standing on the footpath at the bottom of the hill.

A woman was riding a bike very fast down the hill and screeched at me to move out of the way. I did so before it occurred to e it was a footpath she was riding on and she should have dismounted and walked, not been shouting at pedestrians to move.

Perhaps I can send her to your park MissThang to scatter the dog walkers and leave the paths clear

Yes coffee it would be nice if people on bikes on the path slowed down too rather than speed round a corner then beer off last second as they just saw you walking on the path.

And on the flip side, if we are approaching a dog on the path I get my children to dismount from scooters or bikes or stop running and walk past said dog so not to scare them.

All works both ways

Veer

Coffee please do

Well I just felt bad for the woman in question as she was clearly trying to walk past quickly so that the toddler wouldn't want to pet the dogs. I don't get how, if they were blatantly blocking the path aside from the middle, how they think people should get through. It just looked like they jumped on her in a nasty way tbh. Indeed there are entitled people everywhere, but particularly in my area many dog owners who allow their animals to run around people trying to eat, or run up to small children.

So' a woman with a double buggy and a toddler barged through a group of people chatting without saying "Excuse me, would you mind moving over for a minute so I can get through please? thank you!"

There are different ways of looking at everything...

Dog owners have gone mad in recent years its an entitled free for all out there...maddness.

I went to a very popular large large park the other day, it was a nightmare, soo many children on fast bikes, scooters, adults too, dogs...horrible.

I find in general that people now like to hog the pavement, either standing across it or walking 3 abreast, and are quite happy to force single walkers off into the road or the edge of the kerb. It's quite rare that larger groups make way for smaller ones. It's really rude.

See i haven't really met these awful dog owners. I have however been zoomed past on bikes, had unsupervised older kids in toddler area in park taking up space where the little ones want to play, parents stopped, gassing blocking paths with buggies causing me to have to walk my kids on the road to get past.

And seen kids running excited and screaming towards dogs on a lead with no one telling them to slow down. Like that dog owner isn't allowed a square inch of space, people have to prove their kids are more deserving by having them running where te dogs are and not the yards of open space the other side

You went to a park and encountered children playing with outdoor play equipment? T'is not on, not on I tell ye.

I don't own the park, fwiw, I own the beach

You can keep your parks, just stay off my beach with your BBQs/litter/noise.

People of all walks of life can be entitled. I despise people who rock up to the usually deserted, clean and peaceful beach at the merest hint of sun, complain about the dogs playing too close to them and then leave the sand dangerously hot after taking away their disposable BBQ yet not managing to take away all their empty drinks cans. Non dog owning people are twats.

'So' a woman with a double buggy and a toddler barged through a group of people chatting without saying "Excuse me, would you mind moving over for a minute so I can get through please? thank you!"'

Fuck that. The dog owners should be apologising for not having any consideration. If people are blocking a path they should get the fuck out of the way, not have to be beseeched to do so.

From what I saw Owl, the woman didn't barge, she looked apologetic as she went through with the toddler. She also looked a bit foreign so perhaps a language barrier? Different ways of looking at things yes. It just riled me that these people saw her approaching yet didn't make a shred of effort to move their huge dogs out of the way to allow more room. What was so hard about that? Particularly with young children in tow?

Dogs honestly come before humans in my honest opinion sleeping in beds, eating up to tables, laying all over seats in public places etc etc. Everyone wonders why there are fatal attacks every year on children in particular but hey, they're just all friendly doggies aren't they? I can see why the woman went through quickly in the park today, at the risk of having her curious toddler bitten because the owners just couldn't be bothered to move, she wanted to get out of their way ASAP. Hardly necessary to berate her so loudly and rudely.

Doesn't mean that it's appropriate to disregard teChikg your children about how to react around animals!

Of a dog is on a lead then what more do you want? I the child goes running over that's the oarebts adult not the dog owner merely for existing.

Yes many require some manners but that's true if everyone. And this attitude of "I'm above every dog" and the resulting stand off to claim every space for themselves is as rude as anything dog owners do!

Excuse typos I have a busted iPhone and fat thumbs

I'm not saying that the woman was rude.

Just that people in general can he just as inconsiderate and enjoy making dog owners out to be the devil when some consideration and controlling of their children wouldn't hurt either.

The work is full of people.

Letting dogs sleep on beds does not a savage dog make.

In other news, you seem very pleasant OP

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How about the large groups of people walking side by side, not dropping back to let other people actually, you know, use the pavement?

I enjoy walking straight into them.

MissThang next time I will trip her up and tell her to bog off to your park!

It is a shame people can't get on more, there is a playpark in our local park and my friend has had verbal abuse after asking a dog owner to get his dog out of the playpark, even though dogs aren't allowed in there and it's clearly signposted.

On the other side, a relative was verbally abused for not having her dog on a leash outside the play park while she was watching her granddaughter play. Abuser was insistent dog was a dangerous breed and was required to be on the lead- it wasn't.

I have a dog and children so I am determined we will all learn to live in harmony or else