Because I haven’t been able to go out a lot recently, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time in the garden.
I was out this morning and was pruning my roses (I haven’t had the time to recently) when my next door neighbour came walking by with her german shepherd. I said hi, and she stopped and began asking me how I was. As we began talking she moved onto my lawn. Her dog kept tugging on the lead, and since I wasn’t really in the mood for conversation with this lady, I made the side comment “Oh, looks like she wants to get going” or something similar. Instead of leaving, however, my neighbour unclipped the leash and let the dog off.
A few moments later, another dog walker came by with her two labradors, and of course my neighbour’s dog went into a frenzy, barking and jumping. One of the labradors went up to my neighbour, and of course being a dog person she began petting it and praising the dog.
This lead the owner to let the dogs socialise. They were running around - on MY lawn - sniffing each others buttholes and barking. It was truly gross.
This other dog walker joined in our conversation. Her dogs, on the other hand didn’t seem to be as well trained, and went around and squatted and peed about twice each. It was truly disgusting and I felt so embarrassed for the dog owner. Luckily for her, she didn’t seem to notice.
It just doesn’t seem right that someone could be so oblivious to the behaviour of their dogs though.
I don’t want DS stepping in any dog puddles while he’s out playing. What if they had poo’d? Who’d have cleaned it up? Its just so gross.