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?

I live on a street with a school and I get fed up with parents blocking my drive or parking on the pavement and blocking it with their buggies as they stand chatting so I can't get past with my (on lead) dog. But I try to smile and say excuse me, even if they do give me dirty looks.

Live practically next door to a green where loads of dogs are walked.

Most are on leads and have seen people change direction or cross over so not to walk past where kids are playing. And all are called back if off lead and never been a problem.

I have however seen kids kick balls hard in the dogs direction and then grabbed it out from under them with out giving owner a chance to move dog out the way.

I've seen people zoom past te dogs on their bikes without thinking for a second, and slowing down or giving them space.

And people leave food on the concrete area and have contaminated the stream leaving dogs who have drink it, sick.

Most the owners I have seen walking dogs have been ones who pick up after them. There is a fair bit of dog shit on the field but not seen who left it there.

Yes, I heartily resent sharing public green space with piles of dog shit.

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
Well, for the record, I am not professionally offended. In fact, not much offends me at all. What I am, however, is a bit pissed off with the constant baiting of dog owners on here. Threads are started in aggressive ways, IMO, with the sole intention of winding up dog owners. It's really tedious - there are two entrenched camps on here and nothing is ever resolved - it's therefore a pointless exercise.

Oh, and I did RTFT.

You know in the real world I never get given shit for having dogs. Never.
Agreed. I never see any of this behaviour that has the dog haters on MN regularly frothing at the mouth. Maybe I just live where the dog owners are unusually thoughtful and well behaved but I just never see the kind of child / dog stand offs that seem to occur everywhere else in the country.

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.
If you choose to do anything life, and that includes giving birth to children, then it is up to you to be responsible about it, agreed. The fact that you expect everyone else to fit in with your choices but you aren't willing to extend the same courtesy to others says a lot about your attitude, TBH.

I am invariably courteous whether alone, accompanied by my children or my dog. Can you say the same?

When OPs don't have everyone bowing at their feet and agreeing, they sometimes come out with "professionally offended" which is actually helpful as it highlights to the rest of us that they are Daily Mail reading frothers and are best taken with a handful of salt.

Oh have a tea and wind your necks in. My thread was an observation, not a thesis. We have a dog problem round our area, dog shit everywhere, crap owners, etc etc. I hope some of you enjoyed writing essays anyway. Cheers

In other words "my thread didn't go the way I hoped it would"...

Select Well, quite.

Lengthy responses clearly not MissThang's thang.

AIBU should be renamed IABU because so many OPs throw strops when people disagree with them.

:o

Well no, the nitpicking and general predictable comments that go with threads criticising dog owners isn't really my thang but hey ho

So odd...I made an observation about something I had seen at the park today as well as the general issues around the local area...and then all of a sudden lots of lovely passive aggressive faces pop up and I'm accused of throwing a wobbly. Can anyone shed any light, pray?

Because the whole thing was absolutely nothing to do with there being dogs!!

So odd...I made an observation about something I had seen at the park today as well as the general issues around the local area...and then all of a sudden lots of lovely passive aggressive grin faces pop up and I'm accused of throwing a wobbly. Can anyone shed any light, pray?

You almost had a point about people blocking the pathway until you decided to specify that they were dog owner. Deliberately antagonising and baiting people is bound to get you grief.

The people blocking the path were rude, the woman walking on through the middle without politely asking them to move out of her way was also rude. The dogs are irrelevant

Agreed, it was irrelevant that the women blocking the pavement had dogs.

Can anyone shed any light, pray? That is completely disingenuous.

I am pretty sure that you could have predicted the likely response - God knows there have been enough dog bashing threads on here over the years.

If you had simply wanted a response to that particular incident - fine. But you over-egged it with:- dog walkers blocking paths or letting the dogs all over forbidden parkland. Dogs all over seats at local outside cafés. That marked your OP out as a dog bashing thread from the off.

You wanted a certain response and you organised your material accordingly.

Naughty me for daring to describe people with dogs! It's pretty relevant that these people made no effort to move out the way with their animals when the woman and her kids went through....because the whole point of the thread was an OBSERVATION based on what I and others have experienced in our area from....local DOG owners! Madness isn't it. Just check the other dog thread that's going on and you'll be enlightened that there's a lot of this type of crap going on in local parks unfortunately.

lastminutelil and wheresthelight, wow you go to a lot of trouble highlighting and pasting.

but they would have been rude if they had no animals with them, if they had been mum's with pushchairs they would still have been rude.

You are deliberately goading people

is there nothing on the tv in your house missthang?

And you are launching a personal attack on me.

What's the point in goading? Goading for what exactly? I don't need 100 poster's appr

oval that these people were twats and that a lot of dog owners, particularly in Britain, think their dogs run the area. This is the sad reality these days. Most people have had a shitty experience with a dog or their owner being unable to control it.

what exactly is the personal attack??? i have not been rude or called you names whereas you have been rude and goading to posters who have pointed out that the fact the people were walking dogs has absolutely nothing to do with the issue of who was rude.

Nothing on at yours either wheresthelight? It would appear so.