Keep Your Mutt On A Frigging Lead

[Psolomon]

Out running canalside this morning and an unleashed dog came bounding up, tongue lolling maniacally, and jumped up at me, frenziedly snuffling at my sweaty snatch whilst I frantically tried to side-step its mangy mass. I thundered at its owner: 'Get this thing off me!' and hurled a couple of panicky expletives (I'm not a lover of dogs and to have one jump up whilst running was scary).

AIBU to think far too many dog owners think the world ought to love their mutt? Surely a dog should be controlled on a canal towpath? Grr.

YANBU and I say that as a dog owner and absolute dog lover.

Top marks for use of the word 'thundered' though

I think it's a very underused word

Each word in the thread title having a capital letter makes it look like a country and western song title.

Keep Your Mutt on a Lead
Woman you'd better heed
Or I'll take my lovin' away no matter how you plead 🎼🎤

YANBU.

We were picnic-ing by the river once, a dog comes bounding over trampling over some of our food. Not on a lead. Owner calls over "it's just being friendly", not to call their dog back My friend was very scared of dogs, we had to bin the food the dog had walked over. Owner and dog had disappeared along the path whilst we were recovering from shock.

Thank you, Worra. I do thunder a lot down the canal. As do my thighs.

squoosh is that a Johnny Snatch song?

I had a certain well known newsreader's pouch sit begging for me to feed it at restaurant this week while said newsreader paid absolutely no heed to pouches wandering begging. Luckily I thought it was quite cute and gave it a bit if sausage.

Meh. I like nice doggos- as do my DC.

Some random spaniel sat on my lap in the park earlier. It was quite cute.

Johnny snatch

Squoosh

Y'all call your prairie mutts awf
Or I'll come and chawp your nuts awf

A begging pouch and a bit of sausage...

'I had a certain well known newsreader's pouch sit begging for me to feed it'

Ooo er missus. Was it Dermot Murnaghan's pouch?

Stand by your snatch
Unless you're a doggy mass

Right. Well, this wasn't a cute spaniel cuddling into my willing and welcoming lap. It was a lolloping wretched shit interrupting my run.

I've just had to google Johnny Snatch! And his Poontangs.

I had this the other day. Three bloody times the flithy and dirty and heavy thing jumped up at me and clawed me. Bloody hurt and the recall on it was shit. The owner apologised, but seriously, if your dog doesn't recall at first shout have it on a bloody lead.

I'm just fed up of those dog lovers who expect everybody else to dribble with doggy delight over their stupid pet. They actually think their jumpy-uppy, vadge-sniffing hound is probably endearing to its unsuspecting victim. It isn't. I want to do Really Bad Things to it.

Naughty teen dog ran up to someone's picnic last weekend.
Greyhound, so not an insignificant unit, and she definitely thundered.

She's never done that before. Sped blithely past a million picnics in search of Staffs or spaniels to play chase with, squirrels to menace or fox shit to swipe on her expensive collar

Was horrified. Called her back straight away and apologised profusely. Luckily no damage done. She stopped just short of the blanket. They were a bit shocked but very nice about it.

YANBU it's just rude to inconvenience people that much in a public space because you want a pet.

Bubble. Three times, you say. That dog would have been feeding through a straw the second time..

Sqoosh - not DM.

As a runner and dog lover i can see both sides. I work with dogs and can read their body language fairly well and i often think joggers and dogs are a recipe for a dog bite. It can be fairly intimidating for a dog to have someone running towards them and i often find myself barked at or more concerning, stared down by a worried dog.

What gets me is their owners never call their fucking dogs away or make any attempt to reassure them so they don't fucking bite me that it is ok. I am not scared of dogs and can usually guage whether it us ok to avoid eye contact (dogs are intimidated by this ) and keep running, walk by and ignore the dog or stop and say hello - that too can reassure them. BUT ITS NOTMY RESPONSIBILITY to prevent your dog from biting me or getting upset by me running (shuffling through the woods). I am entitled to run in the woods as i am to walk my dogs. I don't allow my dogs to bark or jump at runners and i don't expect to be attacked by other people's.

Yes I'll walk or stop if your dog is worried but do me the courtesy of calling it away please --i see enough of the fuckers at work -'

We had that happen to us in blackheath park a few weeks ago. DH and I, two friends (one blind!) and our seven month old son who has just learned how to sit were having a picnic when some dog (I have no idea about dog types but it was medium to large) ran into our group, all over our blanket, grabbed a chicken bone (which my friend said is actually dangerous to dogs!!), then sniffed around my son until the owner finally came and called him back. She thought it was hilarious. I was freaked out- what if it had bitten DS?!?!
Luckily we were mostly finished with the food.
She didn't even apologise!!!

Three times, you say. That dog would have been feeding through a straw the second time..
Lovely.
It's only been 3 weeks since the last dog hating thread, we were doing so well.

London, are you stupid? Don't you know it's perfectly reasonable to let a dog near your baby's head? I see babies and dogs kissing each other's faces all over Facebook 😒

Kali, I wasn't seriously suggesting I would render one of these irksome creatures paraplegic.

You sound mean.