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To be furious over what has just happened?

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DippyDiplodocus · 15/01/2019 09:46

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 Angry I just despise people at times.

OP posts:
Weetabixandshreddies · 17/01/2019 19:45

Why are you compelled to say hello to a stranger?

FinnegansWhiskers · 17/01/2019 19:58

He did say hello, as it were - he smiled at the OP (or smirked)

That's a good point. Dog owners do tend to acknowledge other dog owners within close proximity. Either with an "Hello" or a nod or some general chit chat about the weather or dog breeds, or dogs in general.

If a dog owner has a dog that is reactive or noisy the other dog owner tends to quikly pass with just a nod or a smile.

Given that OP stated that her dog was barking (plus she had another 4) it would be acceptable for the other dog owner to give a brief smile as he hurried past.

Ordinarily dog owners would give another dog owner time to clip their dog on a lead before attempting to pass - usually so all owners have their dogs under control, without one having their face ripped off by an aggressive dog.

Fact is we don't know the full circumstances of what happened that day. We only know OP's version of events.

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