Or was this bloke in the cafe totally over reacting

[NicoAndTheNiners]

I'm in a very dog friendly cafe with my well behaved dog. Who is on a lead and has spent 99% of the time under the table. She ventured out from under the table and sat between our table and the next table sniffing the floor.

Bloke at the next table jumped up, got right in my face and told me in a very aggressive manner to stop my dog sniffing round his table. I don't think she was but said sorry and pulled her under my table. He carried on and said it was the second time (it wasn't, though we had to walk past them at one point so he may have meant that).

He carried on ranting at which point I told him there was no need to be so aggressive and that he could have mentioned it in a far nicer manner. Which shut him up.

Photo so you can see the space dog had ventured into. Dog wasn't touching the woman's purple coat. Small spaniel who was sat in the middle of that space.

Ahhh omg look at her little face!

I'd have told him to calm the fuck down and get out of my face tbh

Alien, my dog doesn't drool or moult

I did once hold a tarantula and was surprised by soft and light they are. But if you brought it to a cafe I wouldn't be tutting and complaining so much as screaming and whacking

TBH Dreich - my sister has one ( a red-kneed tarantula) - I couldn't stand it! I'm not in any way frightened of spiders but the way it sort of stallked was sinister in my opinion and I couldn't bear it unless it was in its tank, with the lid firmly in place, eating its mealworms. (She used to feed it little mice, too - but not when I was there because loathe the bloody thing as I did, I would still fish the poor little buggers out - couldn't bear to leave them in with that monster!)

If its the cafe i recognise in H then it has clear notice that its dog friendly.

He's a knob. I'd have let her sit on my table, she's beautiful.

Oh, this was a blatant stealth boast wasn't it, OP!

First the cute dog and then you go on to mention that you live in the lakes!

Ha ha, yes. Guilty of the stealth boast! 😁😁

while I don't have a dog - so long as it doesn't attack me or my food or climb over me Or my coat, I don't get it - its a dog friendly place - if you don't like dogs - don't go there - bet you he would make scene about mum feeding baby too! The thing I don't like is out of control dc (not being a little noisy some adults can be worse, but dc rushing round between tables because its dangerous as well as ruining other peoples meals etc) & cigarette smoke - so so long as your dog doesn't take up smoking :) & rushing around knocking people flat or knocking their drinks over…. :)

Not where i was thinking then.

Not a fan of dogs in cafes, but maybe it was the only cafe around so the man had no choice of dog-friendly or not? Sometimes we've been places where there was no choice (unless you drive miles to the next place) so they did not get our custom.

He chose to drink / eat at a dog friendly place. He can hardly be surprised there were dogs there! It doesn't matter if there was no where else around for him to have a coffee, he still made the decision to go in so on his own head be it.

He was being a complete arsehole.

I'm allergic to dogs (and cats) which makes encounters like this awkward.

I was hospitalised by a cat once so I'm not being dramatic (much).

There are very few public places where they're NOT welcome now, sadly for me. I hate when I'm on public transport and someone with a dog gets on, because then I spend the rest of the journey working out if I have to move or if I have to go on an emergency antihistamine hunt.

See: the other day in a first class train carriage. Didn't occur to me that there could be a dog there.

Livid probably the dog had a first class ticket and didn't want to travel with any mongrels

He would have loved Dickhead Hopping Retriever
Whenever we go anywhere he manages to flop down in the middle like a large smelly rug and pass out so everyone has to climb over him
While I appreciate not everyone likes dogs that bloke was overreacting

She's adorable! The man was a dick

Yanbu

I'm a dog owner. I notice that some people are very aggressive about my dog, I can only guess that it is because they are afraid, so are disguising their fear with aggression. She is similarly sized to your dog, and a very friendly and docile dog.

Yabu your dog looks like he would gouge your throat out in a second. Look at his blue ‘I’m hard me’ jacket and curly fur. You may as well put a cross earring in him. He was sniffing before he pounced for the kill no doubt. Poor man was probably scared for his life.

Oh my gosh what a little pudding, I love her.

Yabu your dog looks like he would gouge your throat out in a second.

Totally agree.

Your dog has the cold, dead eyes of a heartless killer OP.

The bloke's lucky that it was my current dog and not my previous dog.

Because that dog would no way have stood for what happened and though he was a tiny 4kg rat the bloke would have had puncture wounds for sure.

Arrr my god your dog looks adorable ❤️
Sorry no advice other than if it's a dog friendly cafe, I agree, he is being massively unreasonable!! 🐓

You and your dog have done nothing wrong. He must have issues with dogs but if the cafe allows dogs then clearly it is not the place for him. You have a beautiful dog by the way!

@dadshere😀💗🐾🐕I couldn't agree more!

Ngl I don't like dogs and I'm scared of them.... But then I wouldn't go to a cafe that was dog friendly.

lividlaugh the only time I went first class there was a woman there who had - wait for it - 2 fancy white rats - in a cage I hasten to add - but rats???