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Dog attacked my husband! Feeling very cross about irresponsible owner

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BaitandSwitch · 27/05/2019 18:45

My husband takes a regular walk around the local park and fields and today he came home with some face bleeding.
What had transpired was that a regular dog walker had let her dog off the lead - which bounded up to my H and jumped up at him. In the process drew blood from 4 places - 1 claw clipped the inside of his nostril, and three sites around the nose and cheek. He naturally was in a state of mild shock. I asked what the owner's reaction had been. He responded he sees her and that dog regularly and the dog always makes a beeline for him and jumps at him. The owner laughed it off apparently saying, " oh he always goes for you".
I feel so angry and upset - how dare she have such a cavalier attitude and not keep her out of control mutt on a lead? I feel inclined to accompany my H on his next walk and give her a piece of my mind if I see her. I have just had to get this off my chest.

OP posts:

YourSarcasmIsDripping · 28/05/2019 17:33

When you say your husband tolerates the dog,never gave him attention etc is that coming from him or just your assumptions?

CuriousaboutSamphire · 28/05/2019 18:00

When you say your husband tolerates the dog,never gave him attention etc is that coming from him or just your assumptions? Why? It makes no difference. In law, in common sense, in any other way you look at it, it makes no difference what the dog's intentions were, what the non owning human's intentions were. The dog owner is the one who is responsible for keeping their dog under control... and that includes having it on a lead if it has no recall and stopping it from jumping up at anybody, everybody they pass.

Or is it just me who is spending an inordinate amount of time and effort ensuring my puppy is never in a position to do this? I know he will one day, when my attention is less than perfect. On that day, if my dog causes the same injuries as the OP describes, I wouldn't be laughing it off! And more training - for me! - would follow!

YourSarcasmIsDripping · 28/05/2019 18:14

To me it would make a difference.

It's one thing an off the leash dog jumping on everyone and everything with no warning .

And quite another a dog jumping up at someone that they see and interact with frequently,gives them a rub,a warm greeting,calls their name etc.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 28/05/2019 18:19

To me it would make a difference. But you are not the law...

... and if OP is accurate, off leash and leaping on people is what the dog was doing.

And quite another a dog jumping up at someone that they see and interact with frequently,gives them a rub,a warm greeting,calls their name etc. As so many doting grandparents have said....

Boshmama · 28/05/2019 18:37

Cannot believe what I've just read. A dog jumps up excitedly to a grown man he sees frequently and accidentally scratches him. Grown man's wife overreacts so much because of a couple of scratches she wants to accompany him on his next walk. MN goes nuts because this is a dangerous dog who could kill a child. Wtf???? It was an accidental scratch, dogs are allowed to be off the lead you know. Grow up and stop scaremongering.

stayathomer · 28/05/2019 18:40

There are some serious extremes here but don't discount how sore it is for even a medium sized dog to jump up on you. It makes you fall backwards and the digging in of the nails is quite sore so I do always think it warrants some form of an apology instead of a laugh and a joke about them being excited etc

CuriousaboutSamphire · 28/05/2019 18:41

It was an accidental scratch, dogs are allowed to be off the lead you know. Grow up and stop scaremongering. You've missed the point, I think!

Dog is off lead, and uncontrolled. Man does NOT want to interact with dog. Gets his FACE scratched, despite not, as far as we can tell, having bent down to pet the dog.

Owner laughs it off.

That is totally unreasonable behaviour on the owners part. And contravekes the law about dogs always being under control.

That's it. The dog was not under control... I hope you don't own a dog!

LimeKiwi · 28/05/2019 18:43

Jesus. Cannot believe the amount of "well hardly an attack was it" "what would you do in a real crisis" idiotic comments on the first page!
Dog out of control jumping up and scratching people in a public area?!
What if it was a child next time?
Keep your fucking mutt under control, if you can't you shouldn't be allowed to keep them if you're not willing to do so.

ballsdeep · 28/05/2019 18:43

A dog jumped up on my 8yo today. Pissed me off. He was scratched on his hand. He was simply walking down a path and the dog owner let her dog sniff and jump on my son. Did he give any inkling he was interested in the dog? No. It's just another example of a dog owner thinking everyone wants to be jumped on and pawed by their mutts

Girlmama · 28/05/2019 18:43

PP’s saying ‘well he wasn’t attacked was he...’, he’s a grown man who could defend himself and still left with four injuries. What if he’d been a toddler? What if he’d been YOUR toddler? Small, vulnerable and unable to protect themselves. I suspect the responses wouldn’t be jovial mocking then! OP, the dog clearly isn’t controlled well and the fact that the owner said ‘he always goes for you’ suggests she knows it!

LimeKiwi · 28/05/2019 18:44

Wtf???? It was an accidental scratch, dogs are allowed to be off the lead you know. Grow up and stop scaremongering.

It shouldn't be jumping all over strangers in the first place.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 28/05/2019 18:45

Keep your fucking mutt under control, if you can't you shouldn't be allowed to keep them if you're not willing to do so. As the owner of one young, excitable not-quite-mutt I couldn't agree more!

Boshmama · 28/05/2019 18:54

No, the dog shouldn't have jumped up, and hopefully the owner will work on its training. But dogs do need to be allowed off lead - it's absurd to say they should all be on a short lead and that a dog should be put down and its owner reported to the police for a scratch!!! Absolutely batshit crazy.

CuriousaboutSamphire · 28/05/2019 19:00

Well, lets see.

Dogs should be on leads when around other people, if they do not have good recall If they are bouncy, like mine, then a short lead is essential. I can't let him bounce aorund on the far end of his extending lead, I have to reel him in and keep him under close control.

Yep, dogs do need to be off lead, where and when appropriate . A local park with kids, other dogs etc won't be appropriate for all dogs.

Technically the owener has commiteed an offence,as linked above, a few tmes.

And that offence would NOT require the dog to be put down, but the owner to be fined, and told to get the dog under better control.

It is batshit crazy not to expect the owner to take responsibility for their dogs behaviour. Not to keep their dog under proper control!

Lifeover · 28/05/2019 19:24

Average sized Dog jumping up an average sized man =muddy paw prints on jeans

Man bending down to stoke dog dog excitedly jumps up accidentally scratches face

I suspect the op suspects DH is much friendlier with woman from park than hes letting on. Op wants to check out said dog walker and warm her off by shouting at woman about dog.

Mumsnet dog hater club decides dog is the hound of the Baskervilles and needs to be sentenced to death.

Today a small child.scootered into me. I shall obviously be contacting social services to get the child removed as the parent obviously is not supervising their child, it could have been an old lady!!!

Lizzie48 · 28/05/2019 19:41

Lifeover And the stupidest post has to be yours, deciding that the OP must be jealous! It’s not the case that the majority of posters have suggested that the dog should be PTS. There have been a couple of dog haters suggesting this, which is par for the course on a thread like this.

There have been plenty of sensible posts from responsible dog owners saying that the owner should be fined for not having her dog under control.

I would be pretty upset if it was my DH, particularly as he’s allergic to dogs. I might sound off on here. It wouldn’t mean that I was jealous of a woman in the park who couldn’t keep her dog under control.

Roussette · 28/05/2019 19:43

MN goes nuts because this is a dangerous dog who could kill a child

Nobody has said that on this thread. Yes it's been said that dog could've scratched a child's face, damaged an eye, jumped up at an OAP unsteady on their feet but no one has said that dog could've killed a child.

I suspect the op suspects DH is much friendlier with woman from park than hes letting on
I've heard it all now. He's not just a vulnerable adult, he's also having an affair with the dog woman! You couldnt make it up

Boshmama · 28/05/2019 19:56

Rousette - Page 1, comment 16 - read the thread hon

Roussette · 28/05/2019 20:16

Hon? lololol... yes one six word post out of 220 posts, never mentioned again. Call me thoroughly chastised errrrrr hon

LimeKiwi · 28/05/2019 20:17

I suspect the op suspects DH is much friendlier with woman from park than hes letting on. Op wants to check out said dog walker and warm her off by shouting at woman about dog.

Lmao FFS, another day and just when you think MN can't get any batshittier

Lizzie48 · 28/05/2019 20:22

LimeKiwi

I agree, some of these posts are completely batshit, and hilarious. 😂

YourSarcasmIsDripping · 28/05/2019 20:32

Plots twist, husband and dog owner were having an affair. Woman viciously attacked husband when he ended it. Poor ,oblivious chihuahua gets blamed and turned into a massive , enraged mongrel beast.

I know,i know...I won't quit my day job.

Lifeover · 28/05/2019 20:38

Quite frankly I really hope she is jealous otherwise the ops desire to go to the park and confront a woman she has never met over something that she didn’t witnesss, that her husband )who was “attacked”/accidentally caught by a dogs paw does not see as a big deal and seemingly wants to forget about would indicate at best she’s batshit at worse treats her husband like a 4 year old unable to stand up for himself and decide for himself how to react
To incidents only he was involved with.

And never said he was having an affair - you can be friends with opposite sex you know and not the other mn favourite of an emotional affair everytime you speak to someone of the opposite sex. But sounds unlikely the DH would ever admit it to the OP she’s likely a cat person

GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman · 28/05/2019 20:55

The dog was dangerously out of control. It injured someone. The owner could be liable to up to five years in prison, or a fine, or both. The dog could be destroyed.
The thing is, if you imprison and fine people whose dogs jump up at people, and euthanise their dogs, what the hell are you going to do with the ones whose dogs bite, maul, maim and kill?

I'd be mortified if my dog did something like this. I've had a puppy knock a toddler over, because her recall wasn't as good as we thought it was (we didn't realise how much she liked children). We apologised like mad, and carried on working on the puppy's recall and general behaviour. For a large adult dog to be that ill-mannered isn't acceptable, but it's also not the end of the world. The owner needs a kick up the arse, but some perspective would be useful.

ShawshanksRedemption · 28/05/2019 22:04

But I can’t understand why the OP’s DH hasn’t asked the owners to keep it away of it makes a beeline for him and he doesn’t want it to

I'm curious over this bit. I mean it's not just that the DH should say something, but that the dog owner can't see the DH isn't happy over it and keep her dog away.

So to the dog owners on here, if you could see someone disliked your dog interacting with them, wouldn't you keep your dog away?

It's a bit bizarre this thread.

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