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To think this women was being ridiculous

295 replies

Trizzlenbizzle · 29/10/2020 23:29

I was walking my dog earlier and he stopped on the pavement to do a week against a lamp-post, standard dog behaviour.

A woman went past and made a passive aggressive comment about how it was disgusting that i'd let him wee there and that it was really unhygienic because we were outside a supermarket and 'near to food'.

This is ridiculous because in order to actually get into the supermarket and be near to the food, you'd have to go through the 2 sets of automatic doors!

I just gave her a look and walked on because I couldn't be arsed with an argument, but she was being ridiculous wasn't she?

OP posts:
PhilCornwall1 · 30/10/2020 03:46

My last dog was a male who had to pee on every lamppost. Just what dogs do.

I draw the line at the little fuckers pissing up my new fence though. Go piss on next doors instead!!!!

BritWifeinUSA · 30/10/2020 03:49

@Purpledaisychain but New York didn’t. They voted for Hillary. 29 votes for her and zero for Trump. But we are going off on a tangent here.

Blueberries0112 · 30/10/2020 03:52

It's gross no matter where you go but a dog gotta do what a dog gotta do.

But, I would not recommend letting him pee on any metal surfaces, it can rust , that's just me

BritWifeinUSA · 30/10/2020 03:53

Unfixed male dogs will mark everywhere. Nothing you can do about that. It usually stops when they are fixed but some fixed dogs (like ours) will still mark. You can get belly bands for them but ours doesn’t wear one. He’s so old he doesn’t go much further than our property anyway.

NeonGenesis · 30/10/2020 04:00

You should have responded by dropping a squat and peeing on the lampost yourself. She probably would have left you alone after that.

seayork2020 · 30/10/2020 04:02

When my son was a baby I did not let him use the streets as a toilet and sure animals in their natural habitat do what they like but yes I think it is gross for dogs (and cats if I see it and I love cats) do to their business in normal streets and it just be left there and not picked up or cleaned.

Pixxie7 · 30/10/2020 04:14

I genuinely intrigued how you stop a dog peeing?

switswooo · 30/10/2020 05:05

That’s disgusting, a puddle of piss on the pavement. Find somewhere where people aren’t likely to step in it.

So tired of dog shit in my town maybe she’s had enough too.

Fruitytooty12 · 30/10/2020 05:10

Could they have dog poo and wee areas? That’s kind of a joke but why should they be able to wee and poo everywhere? I know the poos mainly get picked up but.....I think it’s gross seeing dogs pissing on lampposts etc and I get annoyed when it’s outside my house. People aren’t happy to see people pissing on street corners etc, why can dogs do it?

BefuddledPerson · 30/10/2020 05:16

I do find dogs pissing on street furniture/fittings a bit gross but also it corrodes metal so it costs us in the end. It's really just a bit grim.

But I would never say anything because dog owners often feel their pets are sacred! Plus there's no immediate harm to me from it, it's just gross and smells bad.

Mummyoflittledragon · 30/10/2020 05:41

@Trizzlenbizzle

All of you who don't let your dog wee on the pavement, genuine question, where do you let them pee? My dog refuses to wee in the garden at home.
I do not let my male territory mark on garden fences or lamp posts etc. You say he doesn’t wee in the garden. Have you tried encouraging your dog to wee on command? Every time he wees, repeat “wee wee” or whatever command you choose for the entirety of the weeing. Do this for a few days. Then take him outside on the lead in your garden first thing in the morning when he will need one and do the same. It may take some time but it works to train puppies to pee and poo outside on demand so I don’t see why you couldn’t get an older dog to do the same.
Mummyoflittledragon · 30/10/2020 05:43

@Pixxie7

I genuinely intrigued how you stop a dog peeing?
You monitor your dog and refuse to let them wee until allowed. More difficult for dogs living in apartments. But usually there is some kind of grassy area around them for this purpose.
PhilCornwall1 · 30/10/2020 05:46

But I would never say anything because dog owners often feel their pets are sacred!

Why not? I have with bloody matey who walks past our place and constantly lets his dog piss up my fence. I've asked him how he would like it if I went and pissed all over his doorstep. If the little bastard keeps doing it, I bloody will piss on his doorstep.

Palavah · 30/10/2020 06:06

@Purpledaisychain

To the people (who have presumably never owned a dog before) that are saying that letting them wee on lamp posts etc, what do you suggest we do? Tie their little penises in a knot/shove corks up their vaginas and up their arses until we get them back home?
Do dogs wee from their vaginas?

Surelt if dogs can be trained not to wee or poo inside your house they can be trained not to wee or poo on a lampost/on the pavement. And they can be trained to wee or poo in your garden.

FrangipaniWHOOOOO · 30/10/2020 06:08

Maybe the woman has one of the many little kids who like to grab onto lampposts and swing round them?

How flexible do you think dogs are that they can piss on a lamppost high enough up to where a kid would touch it?!

😂😂😂😂😂

I can only assume that the people on this thread saying they control where their dogs toilet must own small or toy breeds because like fuck am I moving my brute once he decides to squat or cock his leg, trust me, I've tried!!

fabulous40s · 30/10/2020 06:10

It’s grim

CatteStreet · 30/10/2020 06:11

The flipside to this is the woman yesterday who deliberately brought her dog onto the planted bed in front of our front drive to wee Angry and explained when challenged that the dog 'needed something green to wee on'. (Tbf it's not entirely obvious that said bed is part of our drive, but it's clearly cultivated, not just a grassy patch, and she had to go a few steps out of her way). Presumbaly she thought she was being considerate by not letting the dog wee on the pavement Confused

pictish · 30/10/2020 06:16

I am laughing at some of these replies. As if you can just take a hard line with an animal, like a dog...and tell them where to Mark territory and pee. Perhaps if dog owners would only explain it more clearly to their dogs eh?

One poster knows ‘plenty of people’ who wouldn’t allow their dog to cock its leg outside a shop. Like she’s discussed this specific issue of dog ownership with all of these people whom she apparently knows, in enough detail to offer this up as some sort of argument.
People do say some rubbish on here.

Marchitectmummy · 30/10/2020 06:20

Yep I agree absolutely gross. Its not ok for people to have to walk through your dogs dirt anymore than its OK to walk through mine. Then trapse it into tbe supermarket. Yuk.

CarlottaValdez · 30/10/2020 06:23

I don’t care if dogs wee on lampposts but it’s weird all the people saying it’s impossible to control where they go. Do you have dogs pissing in your house then?

Mummyoflittledragon · 30/10/2020 06:23

@FrangipaniWHOOOOO

Maybe the woman has one of the many little kids who like to grab onto lampposts and swing round them?

How flexible do you think dogs are that they can piss on a lamppost high enough up to where a kid would touch it?!

😂😂😂😂😂

I can only assume that the people on this thread saying they control where their dogs toilet must own small or toy breeds because like fuck am I moving my brute once he decides to squat or cock his leg, trust me, I've tried!!

I am no longer in a position to manage a large breed. But when I did have a large breed, I was very much in control of ddog. He was the one, I taught to pee and poo on demand in the garden as a pup as he wasn't toilet trained at 4 months when we got him. It didn’t take him long to work out not to do it in the house... or in a place I didn’t want him to.
lazyfecker · 30/10/2020 06:26

Yet a fluffy creature under control of a human can piss where it wants.

😂😂😂😂

If something is cute 'n' fluffy it should be able to do anything IMO.

BrizNiz · 30/10/2020 06:27

Ha - some of the people on here are bonkers! Have any of walked a male dog before? You can't stop them from peeing / scent marking. It's what they do.
If you find it 'grim' what do you do about other animals too? What about foxes or cats? Shall we ban them from peeing? You should definitely avoid walking in the countryside too. A field of cow pats would blow your squeaky clean minds!

lazyfecker · 30/10/2020 06:28

Garden or grassy verges on the way to the field. If we are on a pavement I just keep walking briskly until we get to a grassy area that’s suitable.

Thing is, you could equally meet a professional moaner who bitches about that too - "discolouring the grass, children playing..." I can hear it all now! Smile

whatkatydid2013 · 30/10/2020 06:43

She’s probably just fed up of other people’s animals leaving a mess on the street/in her garden and took it out on you a bit even though what she’s really cross about isn’t actually what your dog was doing. It’s never bothered me overly in the past but over lockdown I’ve got so so sick of various neighbours cats weeing/shitting in the garden, killing the grass and leaving us with their disgusting poo to clean up, dogs weeing on our car/our bin/coming into the yard and weeing on the wall or stuff stored there and dog shit being left on the street. It seems like there has been an increase over lockdown/beyond. I suspect in part there has been as people have been taking dogs out for walks more and in part we’ve noticed more as walking places more/taking car less and at home much more. I’ve always felt ambivalent about pets in the past but at the moment I’d be all for banning people having them in urban/built up areas.