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

[sweetgrape]

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?

I remember fondly the very first time I left PFB DD with a babysitter - DD was 6 weeks old and I had to nip to the hospital for tests and had been told not to bring her.

My neighbour and friend looked after her and when I got back about an hour later she told me that DD had been really good, had woken up almost as soon as I left but was fine. She added as an afterthought "She really likes Squiffy [her dog], she cried a bit but Squiff gave her a good wash and she quietened down"

(I may have ranted a little at DH later, but soon got over it. It was dog spit, not battery acid)

I originally was prepared to accept Iwbu but on second thoughts I dont really think I was. These later posts put things into perspective. The woman over reacted, she did indeed have a whole park to sit in but chose to sit beside a dog. Dogs do inhabit this planet and in the big sceme of things a little lick to the ankle shouldnt be a big deal.

This thread makes me want to remember a fair few usernames to make sure I don't accidentally take anything they say elsewhere too seriously. I won't of course, my memory isn't good enough for that.

Haha,I've just heard, while reading this thread, that it is going to be discuused on The Wright Stuff tomorrow.

So on the one hand your dog is emotionally intelligent enough to have its feelings hurt by someone not wishing to be licked by it, but on the other hand does not possess the intelligence to be trained not to indiscriminately lick people? OK...
Regardless, you are being unreasonable to object to people objecting to being licked by it/him/her. If you're really concerned it hurts his feelings maybe you should think about discouraging him for his own sake, surely that would be easier in the grand scheme of things then expecting everyone else not to mind because you don't? It all sounds abit PFB esque

Yanbu. If she didn't like dogs why sit by you. It was a lick. Silly cow.

This actual indicent from this thread Dragonglass?

I'm more and more convinced as this thread continues that this poor vilified woman doesn't dislike dogs and simply got a shock.

Her hysterics were created by the OP high strung protected feelings towards Barney, and her stupidity and hatred to dogs developed by many a overly defensive dog lover throughout this thread.

theendof as many have said on this thread, training a dog not to lick is unreasonable. It's in his nature, nearly as natural as breathing. Obviously people are in their rights not to be licked by a dog and I do understand that. Barney doesn't go out stalking people so he can lick them. But this woman sat right down next to him, her ankle was right next to his nose. She actually invaded his space, he probably got the wrong signal and naturally thought she wouldn't mind.

I think the comment about dog bring offended was (excuse the pun) tongue in cheek ????

But many things that may be in a dogs nature sometimes need to be reigned in for the benefit of all don't they?
Regardless, I do think expecting no body to ever mind is unreasonable.
Sorry I didn't realise that the dogs feelings being hurt was meant tongue in cheek I thought you actually meant it.

This actual indicent from this thread Dragonglass?

I guess so! They said 'how would you react if you sat down in the park and a dog licked you?' . They have used threads from here many times before.