We are currently on the market at the moment, and I wondered if this is now acceptable or if I'm BU...
Firstly, we looked around a house to buy, we arrived (me, husband and mil) and met the estate agent outside. As she opened the door, she said 'oh the owners have left their dog behind, is that okay?' My mil has a dog so was fine, I'm not too fussed by them and my husband doesn't really like them but it was a small cockapoo type dog so we said it was okay. We looked around the house and it was okay/fine, but the dog followed us in every room and was constantly dry humping my husband and mil's legs. Estate agent was very apologetic but couldn't really do very much (fair enough, it's not her pet) but we left feeling pretty miffed that the owners had gone out while the viewing was going on but had left their dog behind?
Second situation, we had a viewing on our own house this week. I was working from home due to a midwife appointment in the morning and the house viewing was at 3pm. The house was relatively tidy due to having a viewing earlier in the week but I had some washing drying, plates from my lunch and breakfast needed putting away, my laptop and work bits were in my sitting room etc. At 2pm I decide to start tidying my washing away in the kitchen when I hear my front door open and the estate agent is with the person viewing at house. He apologises and said the person viewing text him and asked if he could do the viewing earlier and assumed we would of been at work. I was pretty annoyed at this point and told him to give me 10min to clear my work stuff away and give me a chance to give each room a quick whip round and check. As I go to leave the house the estate agent is talking to a lady next to some parked cars outside, he comes over and says sorry again and he'll call when the viewing is done. I walk away and as I turn around the person viewing my house has a dog with her and proceeds to go in the house with the estate agent and the dog! I missed the dog as I was walking pass as it was hidden by the cars/me not noticing in my annoyance at the estate agent.
Now I appreciate the first situation was not my own house, but still off putting to people who don't like dogs and you are trying to sell your house? And for the second situation, surely if someone was bringing/wanting to bring a dog they should at least ask? I could have house cats or allergies? (I don't, but you'd surely check with the agent and agent would check with us?) and I don't know if my view is tainted by our estate agent being rubbish to start with or third trimester hormones, but my husband was very angry when I called him about it and we are removing ourselves from the estate agents. But surely people bringing dogs to house viewings (especially first viewings) is not a thing?!