To feel hurt that my lovely dog licking someone caused such distress.

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He's just a big affectionate softy, the only trouble is he thinks everyone loves him. We went for our walk this morning in the park and sat down on a bench for a rest. We'd only been sat down a minute or so and this woman sits down next to me. We were just chatting about the weather when all of a sudden she jumped up shrieking, "ahhh the dog just licked my leg"
Now I know not everyone loves dogs but i thought it was a bit of an over reaction. I did apologise but I felt kind of sorry for my dog, who seemed to have a bit of a hurt look on his face. Wabu to have felt sorry for my dog or should I have felt more sorry for the woman?

It wasn't hers I was questioning, tbh, more some of the posters on this thread

Cannot hide the thread on my tablet- aargh! I have a strange compulsion to click again and again! I started reading feeling not much at all about dogs, just thinking being licked by anything is gross. I now know that

a) dogs lick a lot
b) this is normal and cannot be controlled
c) been reminded they also lick their own arses, knobs and bollocks
d) they eat shit (new to me as well)
e) I need to sit away from dog, my fault otherwise

Ambivalence starts to give way to dislike. Must stop reading.

Ovid And you call me a psychopath? PM me and we can meet up. This thread needs to go into classics

Oh please don't do it by PM. How will the rest of us know where to turn up so we can hold Ovid's jacket for her, while crowding round chanting "Fight! Fight! Fight!"?

It'll be just like school 'cept it'll be MNHQ we need to keep a look out instead of the teachers

I agree on classics, mind you. There are some gems on this thread.

Would you believe it SirChenjin, I've taken a day out from work to catch up on some household stuff and had just gone into the garden to put the washing out when it started to drizzle!

Me too reni . I'm supposed to be working (no bored housewife here ) but keep getting pulled back to the story of Ol' Barney and his hurt feelings

I did not threatened to ensure Ovid would be eat soft food so sod off Toughie.

Why don't you report me to the RSPCA. I'll happily tell them to sod off too.

What anger issues would those be

You are delusional, a liar, an hysteric

And yet Ovid is not the one who knows three entirely different sets of parents who are all fine with criminal animal abuse taking place in front of their children...

Not that I smell bullshit or anything.

You do come across super aggressive, prorsum.

Not brave or fearless, just don't like ill behaved dogs. Many people don't. Some on here don't understand that.

And I don't like badly behaved dogs either. But such aggression is unhelpful.

Aggressive because I kicked a dog reni?

What you smell Lost is your dogs breath.

More because of your last few posts. I wasn't there with the dog in the park so cannot possibly judge if the situation was dangerous for the children so can't comment on it.

And yet none of you have addressed the behaviour of the dog or owner. Instead you say it did not happen. Why is that? You can't accept a dog should not have licked a woman's hand or that it should not have been bothering our table.

DOGS DO NO WRONG.

reni1 examples please. I'm genuinely interested in your POV.

No one likes badly behaved dogs. No normal, mentally sound person would gloat about kicking a dog, badly behaved or otherwise. It is not a normal or safe thing to do, especially in front of children. A few dogs will react to sudden pain by biting the nearest thing to them.

And if anyone told me they'd criminally abused an animal in front of my child, I'd have reported them to police after telling them exactly what I thought of them.

My dog licked the plumber earlier. He melted. I still have no hot water

But people did say it shouldn't have like, I for one did. Table is a bit less of a clear cut case, depends if you believed yourself or the children you looked after to be in danger. If so, understandable reaction, if purely annoyance I would say kicking is going to far.

licked not like

Back on topic and away from the weird posts, the only time I've ever experienced a person shriek and jump when a dog's licked them is when that person has been a child. A small one at that! I don't think I'd be able to take an adult seriously (allergies, etc excepted, naturally) if they did that in my presence.

Of course they'd get a cursory "I'm sorry about that" from me but I'd come away amused and bemused by their reaction.