To be furious over what has just happened?

[DippyDiplodocus]

Out Walking our dogs and my 6 month old baby in carrier. I have four dogs and look after one of my friend's dogs while she's at work occasionally. My four are quite large, the biggest being big German shepherd size and the smallest is a pug (friend's dog).

Before I get flamed for having too many dogs, two were mine, two my DH's before we met, so obviously we now have four. We aren't the kind of people to get rid of dogs just because we had a child - dogs are family too and we treat them as such.

We live in the countryside, very quiet rural area.
Coming to the end of our walk over the fields (where I never usually see any other walkers) I see another dog approaching - muzzled Siberian husky with a bloke.
At this point I already have four on leads ready for the road back to our house and bent down squat position to put pug on a lead.

I thought man would stop when he saw me bent down but he carried on approaching. I was struggling to get wriggly pug back on lead so I called out to him "can you just wait there a sec so I can get this one on the lead?" - No response and continues towards us.

Still trying to get dog on lead and my dogs are now getting a bit twitchy and unsettled that this bloke is approaching them, so one of mine barks.
Just to add here, our dogs are all very well behaved but they are protective over me and DD and will act accordingly if they feel threatened.

Man takes no notice, I call out again and say "can you just give me a second?" Ignores me completely.

He decides to squeeze by my dogs and I with a stupid smirk on his face. He can clearly see I'm struggling and baby is now crying and the others are pissed off. One of mine pulled forward and I dug my heels in and sat back so as not to land on my daughter.

I shouted at him and called him a fucking arsehole.

If he could have waited one second, I'd have been out the way and that wouldn't have had to have happened.

FFS I just despise people at times.

Oh I was using your definition of a demand. According to you it was a demand.

I'm still not scrolling for you

I never for a second thought you would, you know there is nothing to back up your stupid comment.

He's not a GSD - never said he was @Weetabixandshreddies

So what we can take from this is that pugs are annoying.

"You sound like an utter nightmare, to be honest. I feel sorry for your neighbours."

Oh I am. Horrible person who neglects her animals so badly that they bark all day and night and destroy everything in their path. Or not.

Anyway, I'm off for a bit!

Toodle pip 🙋🏻‍♀️

Well you said 4 large dogs, largest of which is a GSD size and all 4 were getting twitchy and unsettled and 1 was barking. I think it's reasonable to assume that he could have been injured.

I expect this OP needs a long hot bath and a glass after going outside most days. She seems to have a great knack for transforming normal, everyday non-events into traumatising assaults on her womanhood. #appropriate weather related metaphor.

Maybe he should have stopped then eh, @Weetabixandshreddies would you walk head first into imminent danger?

So what we can take from this is that pugs are annoying.

There's a definite inverse correlation between size of dog and being annoying.

I wouldn’t walk them off lead with a baby in a carrier. Or do two walks, two each time. If one went for another one you couldn’t control it.

Sadly @DippyDiplodocus the world is full of arseholes and as I've found out more recently many of them inhabit Mumsnet. Don't waste time scrolling 😂

The only thing you can do is maybe take 2 at a time? I know they're well behaved but sadly you can't account for others and you are putting yourself at risk of meeting such an arsehole again! Perhaps it's just the cheeky pug that's too many as yours sound well behaved x

You seem quite blase OP. Maybe he felt that escaping was the best course of action?

I'm not sure, if he complains about you having out of control dogs, that your best defense is to blame the innocent party.

An alternative plan would be to train the dogs to pull a baby stroller, dog sled style. All neatly in a line and all secure.

Or to get a dog treadmill.

I don't understand why he should stop - he was out walking his dog as you were out walking yours ?

"Anyway, I'm off for a bit!

Toodle pip"

I love a good flounce when things don't go the OP's way

@DippyDiplodocus when you come back, could you answer the question I've asked twice?

Op whether he heard you or kot, deaf, foreign, airpods, whatever, he should have waited as soon as he saw you. So unless it was a guide dog he was walking, he's a twat. Had you have had no dogs and just 2 children, he should still wait. Normally in enclosed spaces people wait for whoever is there first to pass.

Over 500 posts in and I still don’t understand what the OP is about!

What actually HAPPENED that was so awful/bad/contentious/troublesome/?

Please can someone tell me??? I need to know I’m not inadvertently going about smiling at people on farms while they’re calling me a fucking arsehole

OP, this is what I don't understand.

Back upthread you said Dogs get excited, they get silly sometimes, no one knows how they will react to strangers or other dogs, so to be on the side of caution, a little space is appreciated from both parties. That's just how it works.

So knowing all of that, what on earth possesses you to walk 5 of them with your child strapped to your body??

onemorego I honestly struggle to believe that you've read the thread and genuinely come to the conclusion that everyone (except the OP) is somehow terrible.

Can you expand on your thoughts, please, because a lot of people are missing what you seem to think is obvious.

Yes the lesson learned OP is not to make demands of people. Wait now.... how did this tale start? .... oh l know a man minding his own business walking his one under control dog didn't stop when you gave the hand signal like a bloody traffic cop. I raise my hand to say thanks when lm driving etc or to let someone passing me on foot with their dog go ahead, or to thank them if they've held their dogs etc etc. He could've misread your command hand signal or simply chosen to ignore it if he didn't think it necessary to stop or thought it best to get his dog past briskly. He knows his dog better than you.
I live in Lancashire and most parks/public spaces now have signs saying no more than four dogs per person. Yes we know you weren't on council property but this increasingly common rule is based on common sense.
I think you should stop being a martyr and walking your friends dog, you can't cope with it on top of your four plus baby.

What if I felt threatened by him marching towards me? Or are my feelings irrelevant?
Op you're being silly now.The only one aggressive was you.He did nothing to warrant your aggression

So you were abusive to someone out walking their dog for no reason. Don't overwhelm yourself in future, you can't carry off like that at strangers just because you're at the end of your tether.

What if I felt threatened by him marching towards me? Or are my feelings irrelevant?

If you feel threatened by someone quietly walking a muzzled dog past you, when you're in a public place in daylight and have five protective dogs with you, I'm not sure how you cope in life.

Any reasonable dog owner woukd have stopped, common courtesy.

I suppose the question is over who had the right of way?