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Keep Your Mutt On A Frigging Lead

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Psolomon · 06/05/2017 23:04

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.

OP posts:
swimlyn · 07/05/2017 13:56

Psolomon
Genitalia…
Grin Grin Grin

AwaywiththePixies27 · 07/05/2017 13:58

^Pushing the dog away shows the dog that they're not welcome in your space.
So Shoving it away would be the best solution. Isn't that just common sense?^

No. The common sense approach would be for the owner to have enough control over the dog in the first place that another person doesn't need to push your dog away.

AwaywiththePixies27 · 07/05/2017 14:03

Psolomon Grin

MiddlingMum · 07/05/2017 14:05

Dog owners should club together and rent fields where their dogs can run free. Anywhere else (apart from their own garden) it should be illegal to have them off a lead. I speak as someone who has been attacked.

user1493759849 · 07/05/2017 14:05

I get sick of this too OP, and I find that these people are not fond of children and get irritated by them, yet think everyone should adore their mutt. Hmm

I have lost count of the amount of times I have gone for a walk, (by the river, by the canal, in the rural areas and woods etc,) and some cunt has had their mutt loose. And on 2 out of 3 occasions, the mutt comes at me, sniffing, yapping, chewing at my laces, jumping up me, knocking me over, getting mud all over me, and on several occasions, ripping my leggings. Yet the owners think it's OK, he's only playing, and my favourite gem from every dog owner 'he won't bite.' How do they know?! Confused

Every mutt should be restrained, especially as half the owners seem to have ZERO control over them. No, I don't want to fuss or stroke your mutt, no I don't have any interest in it, no I don't think it's cute. Fuck off.

user1493759849 · 07/05/2017 14:09

I forgot to add, I have also been attacked several times too; I have had a dog go for me twice, (one time I was pinned me against a hedge, and another time I was knocked into the canal,) and the third attack was a bite on my leg. The dog and the owner legged it and I never caught them, or saw them again.

MascaraWanda · 07/05/2017 14:13

Not sure yoga would be the best solution for OP. Presumably mention of downward facing dog would set her off again.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 07/05/2017 14:14

Can I add "he never does that" to "just being friendly?

You missed out the first one Wink IME the trilogy tends to go:

  1. Ooooo he's soft as grease - never hurts so much as a fly
  2. Don't worry, he's only playing
  3. Oh dear, he's never done that before ...
Sprinklestar · 07/05/2017 14:15

We have some idiot who brings their dog to school pick up. Not meant to, but there we go. Entitled. It was on a lead last week but that didn't stop it lurching at the three and four years olds I was with, as the owner struggled to hang onto it, barking its head off. And its head/jaws were just about head height to the nursery aged children - terrifying. There was nowhere else for the children to walk as it's a very narrow piece of pavement. Apparently DH was in the wrong for telling the owner to get her dog under control Hmm...

YouTheCat · 07/05/2017 14:16

It's against the law for a dog to be out of control in public.

AwaywiththePixies27 · 07/05/2017 14:18

Oh sprinkle a schoolmum friend of mine has also been in the wrong like your DH!

There's only one entrance out of DCs school. Fence right outside. It's like doggy daycare some days with them all lined up waiting. Grin and as you say, unavoidable as you have to go through it to get to your car / walk home etc.

Ifailed · 07/05/2017 15:47

My dog is indeed much more important to me than you. This is likely the case for most dog owners

Sums the thread up pretty well, it's not full of people being anti-dog, but one wonders about pet owners who feel like this.

kali110 · 07/05/2017 16:38

My dog is indeed much more important to me than you. This is likely the case for most dog owners
Why? I wouldn't expect a stranger to put me above their pet Hmm
I was actually with op until their posts regarding the Philippines which is frankly disgusting and then every post calling them shitS or mutts. She does sounds like a dog hater.

Willow2017 · 07/05/2017 16:50

kali
People eat dogs in other cultures, just like they eat guinea pigs or horses, its not disgusting its a fact.

We dont have to like it or agree with it personally but its their choice.

You would put your dogs right to bite, knock over a stranger, frighten a child before the person? Ok you just confirmed what a lot of people think about dog owners to the detriment of the owners out there who arent entitled twits who have no clue as how to manage their dogs.

WhenSheWasBadSheWasHorrid · 07/05/2017 17:10

YAsoNBU

My poor kids were terrified by a St Bernard puppy a while back. Stupid owner had it off the lead and it saw my six and three year old and came bounding over to play.

Play meant bouncing in circles around them. Poor kids were terrified. Luckily a lovely group of walkers surrounded me and the kids so the dog couldn't get to them.

Idiot owner took the dog back but still didn't put it on a lead and it came back for round two moments later.

I like dogs and it's taken me weeks to convince the kids not all dogs are scary.

everybodysang · 07/05/2017 17:19

kali you wouldn't expect a stranger to put a HUMAN above an animal?

This country is so fucked up sometimes.

bigbluebus · 07/05/2017 18:12

DH and I have recently taken up cycling. I have lost count of the number of times a loose dog has come charging at my wheels out of it's garden. In another incident, we passed a woman and a boy walking a dog on one of those retractable leads. The woman saw us coming and retracted the lead - only it pulled her towards the dog champing at my tyres instead of pulling the dog back towards the side of the road.

I assume these dogs that chase bikes also chase cars. If you live in the countryside it is not OK to let your dog roam on the road and/or chase traffic. Shut your blardy gate so the dog stays in your garden.

jarhead123 · 07/05/2017 18:14

Totally agree - and we have a dog!

I hate the whole "Oh he's only being friendly' etc.

Control your dog.

Original poster
Psolomon · 07/05/2017 18:24

I don't hate dogs, Kali, they're quite tasty with chips.

OP posts:
kali110 · 07/05/2017 18:47

knock over a stranger, frighten a child before the person? Ok you just confirmed what a lot of people think about dog owners to the detriment of the owners out there who arent entitled twits who have no clue as how to manage their dogs.
Yep, i'll just highlight where i've said that......oh wait.Grin
everybody
No i wouldn't expect a stranger to put me above their pet. They don't know me.

Willow2017 · 07/05/2017 18:53

Somewhere in that last post you agreed that dogs come before people. There for you would be ok with a stranger allowing thier dog to do the above and to hell with the poor person? Ok

kali110 · 07/05/2017 18:57

I agreed with what the poster said, that to the owner their dog is more important than a stranger.

kali110 · 07/05/2017 18:58

But i find it hilarious being called an entitled dog owner Grin

Willow2017 · 07/05/2017 19:19

I didn't call you that at all. I said you had by your statement confirmed what people thought about entitled dog owners.
And you are still not saying that a human is more important than a dogs 'right' to attack them. You are actually saying that you are less important than a strangers dogs rights to frighten you or assault you. Bit weird.

kali110 · 07/05/2017 19:55

My dog is indeed much more important to me than you. This is likely the case for most dog owners
I agreed with this posters statement.
Their dog is going to be more important to them, than me, a stranger. Idon't think that is weird.
Why should a stranger care more me than their dog?
Oh, and i can guarantee i'm not an entitled dog owner.