To think bad dog owners don't realise that they are bad dog owners?

[WayTooSoon]

Kind of a thread about lots of threads...

Every so often, threads appear on here saying someone's dog ran up to them/their child/their dog and how the owners respond with "it's ok, he's friendly" or similar. What usually follows is a load of posters saying "bad owners give us good owners a bad name". So is mumsnet entirely populated by "good owners" or are people oblivious to their own shortcomings as pet owners? Aibu to think that if someone is a bad owner, it seems likely that they have no idea that other people see them as a bad owner?

Are you now or have you ever been a "bad owner"?

Jumping on the picnic bandwagon, we’ve had a picnic destroyed by an over enthusiastic lab, so it does happen. Owner was miles away so didn’t even notice.

A labrador in my front garden again just now, owner nowhere to be seen. It had started to clean out the Guinea hutch and it had it's head in the unopened sack, eating the hay and old guinea pig pooh, managed to scatter quite a bit of it from doing that! I informed the dog owner that his dog was in our front garden. He was defensive about it but at the end of the day he would have see from a distance it go in to our garden and I didn't hear him call its name to not do so. So entitled and annoying.

It's a walled front garden and not a huge grassy area or anything it literally needs to get through the bins I have put between our car on the drive and the wall so he would have very much seen it doing this. It was a nice looking labrador but I am fed up of the dogs scaring my Guinea pigs.

[quote Poorlykitten]@PopcornAndWine my mother, she hated the use of plastic bags so would kick it in to the undergrowth. No real reasoning with her sadly.[/quote]
Not ideal but at least she didn't just leave it in the middle of a path I suppose!