Muddy paws dog jumped on me on walk, WWYD?

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I was walking across a park yesterday and two spaniels bounded towards me about 50 yards away from their owner. I could tell they were going to try and jump up at me so I avoided eye contact with them and told my dd to do the same.

Unfortunately one still did jump up at me multiple times and left mud on my clean trousers.

I shouted at the owner to please keep her dogs under control as one had got mud on my trousers. Not in an aggressive or rude tone though.

In my opinion if you don't have sufficient control over your dog to stop them doing this they need to be kept on a lead in public. The owner didn't seem very bothered and I think there is zero chance of her preventing this happening another time to someone else or possibly even to me again. I feel pretty annoyed about it.

I think there are some owners who either don't think it's a problem when their dogs jump up at strangers or who just don't care.

What would you do if this happened to you?

@Q2C4 what dry cleaning bill?

Same thing happened to us a couple of years ago.

We were walking in the grounds of a stately home when a labrador, who had obviously been swimming in the lake, bounded up to DH and jumped on him, smearing his white shirt and pale trousers with mud. Two women, who were obviously the owners, came strolling round the corner and we asked them (fairly politely in the circumstances) to call their dog off and put it on the lead.

The women immediately turned on us and went into an aggressive rant about how dogs were allowed to be off lead in that area. Not a hint of an apology.

We'd stopped off there on our way to a very posh restaurant, and going home to get DH clean clothes wasn't an option. It completely ruined our evening as he looked awful, and we felt so uncomfortable and self conscious.

Still fuming about it two years later.

If I were walking through a city park in my work clothes and a dog jumped up at me with muddy paws, I'd have a dry cleaning bill.

I would be really freaked as I was chased by a very vicious dog as a child and the fear that it creates is huge!

People accidentally spill drinks, dogs jump up, cars splash you with dirty puddle water.

@TulipCat the difference between someone spilling drinks, and a dog jumping up, is that the former is an accident, and the latter can be prevented.

Nice to see this still going 🙄 not all dog owners are arses.

The ones with shitty untrained dogs are though.

Yes it’s annoying but sometimes dogs jump up at people, even if they don’t usually do that. We take our dog to a park where it can be muddy and there are loads of dogs running around. All the dog owners wince when they see someone crossing the field in a white coat, because they would be horrified if the dog jumped up at them.

Is this post a troll? 😂😂😂

I like the dry cleaning bill idea. Pure natural consequences. If someone doesn't bother to control their dog, they need to pay for the outcomes caused by their negligence.

Unfortunately, majority of cheeky fuckers who can't control their dogs won't cooperate voluntarily, but maybe after some time of hard enforcement (including photos, police or some kind of chip readers), the standards of dog ownership would increase, which would benefit everyone (expect said CFs).

Not all dog owners are arseholes - absolutely a correct statement.

all dogs generally have the capacity to be an arsehole - another true statement.

dogs can, in general be trained not to be an arsehole - another pretty much true statement.

These types of threads annoy me, because spaniels bloody get away with murder. If my dog, a giant breed lovely slobbering gentle pain in my backside, best friend ever (only an arsehole with retrievers (poor sods) and I always lead him up fully when I spot one), if he jumped on anyone they would have dirty boobs or shoulders depending on their heights and I would in all likelihood have the police phoned on him. If I have to keep my dog under control so should a cocker spaniel or a chavapoo owner.

Maybe I will feed pumpkin to the next dog who jumps at me whose owner doesn't care.

That's really quite good for dogs. My dog loves it. Why would you encourage dogs?

Excellent idea, it's really a great test for them. Will you carry a whole pumpkin around with you or just bits?

I'd be really angry at the ahole owners, this is why dogs should have to be on leads. Unfortunately there's not much you can do, eventually I guess they will ruin it for the good dog owners

Its satire innit.

I suspect that dog owners defending this type of behaviour only notice other people's badly controlled dogs when they menace their own dogs - in which case I strongly suspect that they also complain that said dogs should be on a leash.

@TamzinGrey how dare your husband wear decent clothes?!

he should have worn his old scuffs just in case some dog wanted to jump up at him!

he only had himself to blame!

afterall dogs have more rights than people to be outside according to some on here !

Taking note that many of these are Labradors which, untrained and with fur baby status (they make great guide dogs etc), I consider to be society's most evil dog. Every time I have been bitten it has been a lab...

But some dog owners view their pet dog as a social lubricant, bit like alcohol. Once met a woman with a great dane that liked to 'speak to people' which meant it trotted over, kind of sat in your lap, licked your ear, wrapped a paw around your neck which was a cue for the owner to come over to say hello & have a chat. 🙄

Then met her friend who wanted a dog for the same reason. she also got a great dane which clearly have no interest in people and would sit and look at people with disdain.

I'd be really annoyed and I'd have words
With the ignorant dog owner.

That's quite tempting

I wouldn't mind too much as I'm an animal lover. I'd also put myself in the owner's shoes. Dogs are excitable and some are harder to train than others. I'd already feel embarrassed if my dogs had jumped up at you, so I would apologise and hope you'd be nice back!

oh just to add, i'm not a dog owner ^

Surely if you have a hard-to-train excitable dog that you’d be embarrassed by if it jumped on someone, you’d put it on a lead.