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?

MrsMop, that is a bloody amazing story. Well done your dog.

This is getting boring now. All this dog sniping.
Isn't it just! It goes in cycles, I find. At least the smokers are being left alone for now.

I'm just waiting for the annual 'I hate Andy Murray' thread. It's how I count how many years I've been on MN. I've seen 4 of those, so far.

You know it's summer when you see strawberries and cream and someone quotes: "Anyone but England" on a thread.

YABU. Some people are selfish arses who think the world revolves around them. They may or may not own a dog. They weren't acting like they owned the park, they were blocking a path, not the same thing. I agree with the dog owner sniping atm. Must be summer!

Well, the good news is that this means summer has officially started.

It isn't summer until some starts a thread on Mumsnet complaining about dogs in parks.

Hooray! Happy summer everyone!

So these people were standing on a path, partially blocking it, while they chatted, and made some uncalled-for remarks about someone who squeezed through the only gap they had left? Yes, very rude.

But what the fuck has the fact they had dogs with them got to do with the price of haddock?

They were rude people. Not rude dog owners. The dogs were irrelevant and academic. There is NO suggestion in the OP's first or subsequent posts that the dogs were badly-behaved, out of control, dangerous, that they made any move towards the toddler. It sounds as though these people would have been just as rude if they had had shopping trollies or bikes or - heaven forbid - prams with them.

Stop latching onto any tiny excuse to slag off "dog owners" when their dogs were nothing to do with the reason they were in the wrong. It's tedious and pathetic.

The way I see it, dog owners choose to own dogs, so it is their responsibility to fit in with the rest of the world, not the other way round.

Stop latching onto any tiny excuse to slag off "dog owners" when their dogs were nothing to do with the reason they were in the wrong. It's tedious and pathetic

Well bloody said.

Sometimes it seems people go out of their way to find fault with every dog owner ever,

News flash, they are allowed in public, get your children and yourselves used to seeing one with out the drama llama behaviour.

And for once try and share the vast open spaces with dogs. There must be somewhere to play that isn't slap bang in the middle of the known local dog walking route!! Use tge other 80% of the space that the dog owners aren't using , specifically to keep away from your children. Or would that be to simple and not allow for playing the victim?

The same could be said for parents Floozey.

Most parents "choose" to have children...

Children are humans. Humans trump dogs. So the choice of parents is irrelevant.

Yeah and attitudes like that is probably why parents don't bother teaching their kids not to run over to dogs that are on leads and under control and then blame he dog owners.

Also, no, I will not put my dogs back on the lead in the off lead section of the park so that your PFB can practise his football skills. There is an entire park for children, us dog walkers get only a small section, I really don't care if the trees make excellent goal posts and yes, my terrier is likely to chase the ball, he's a terrier, that's why I only let him off in lead in certain areas, such as the dog section of the rather large park.

I wish some of the parks near me had an 'off lead' section. I would happily play ball games in the other section of the parks. Unfortunately nine of the parks near me have an off lead section so we can't play any ball games because dogs want to chase the balls.
My children never follow dogs or try to pet them or bother them. Unfortunately we do still get bothered by dogs and can't play cricket or rounders because the ball will be chased every five minutes by a dog.
In this world we do have some irresponsible parents who let their children stroke and follow strange dogs, but we also have dog owners who think its fair game for their dog to take other people's balls and jump on other people. I don't like either type of person. In not saying that you are either type of person, just that selfish eejits come in all guises, dog owners, parents and otherwise.

None of the parks, not nine. I could only dream of it being nine, that would be heaven.

And yet without dogs, there might not have been any humans left today.

www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/9269523/Dogs-helped-man-out-compete-with-Neanderthals.html

People see me approaching with my double buggy and dig their heels in, I'm sure. Why move their nice chat to the edge of the path when my weighs-a-ton-and-laden-with-crap machine rolls so easily over the grass? Grrr.

Ahh yes. Knew it wouldn't be long before the professionally offended came along to berate me having dared mention dogs being with their owners. Perhaps rtft and see the word 'some' next to 'dog owners'. As you were. finding something on the thread to nitpick as is always the case on mumsnet unfortunately

No, it was just pointed out that the dogs are irrelevant to the whole thing. Thy could easily have not been there. It's nothing to do with dog owners. It's do do with people.

In eight years of ds's life, he has never once approached a dog or tried to stroke it. But I've lost count of the number of times he's been chased by a dog or they've approached him or we've seen piles of dog shit and dogs inappropriately of leads. So that tells me that our attitude or behaviour is not the problem here, it is that of dog owners.

My children are regularly in designated dog areas, they've never been chased. Dd2 was once pee'd on by an Akita, but they never, ever been chased. I was once jumped at by a lurcher puppy, the bastard owner forgot to say "Aww, she's only playing, love" and instead was very apologetic, so I'm not sure if it still counts?

You ought to check that no-one has sewn liver cake into the hems of your DS' pants if it happens often Floozey, as that's really unusual.

I think people are just generally unwilling to give consideration to other people using the path. When I'm running the amount of people who walk towards me four abreast taking up the whole width of the path that are very unwilling to move forcing me onto the grass is unbelievable. They could see me coming for miles.

Same with dog owners and retractable leads, you can see me coming, would it really hurt to reel your dog in for the two seconds it takes me to pass instead of forcing me to take avoidance action again onto the grass as the lead is stretched out over the whole path?

Ditto massive buggy owners.

*sigh
It is generally accepted that a proportion of the population will be twats.
In addition to being a twat, they may also be the owner of a dog/bike/car/child/loud stereo/drill
Upon getting those things, they didn't miraculously stop being twats, so will carry on acting like a twat, now with the addition of something else which when used selfishly, is annoying to other people.

It has probably been this way since early man invented the wheel and then left it parked outside his neighbours cave.

The only thing surprising is the amount of people on here who are surprised about it.*

Round of applause to this. It is pointless arguing about twats - they are what they are and couldn't care less.

We walk to school through an area used by dog owners and live near another area used by dog walkers. We don't have a car so walk a lot. Ds also likes to spend a lot of times outdoors/in parks. I am sick of dogs and dog shit.