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?

Which is a reasonable attitude. Its the 'well dogs get muddy and excited and jump on people so the onus is on you to wear appropriate clothing or not use public spaces' crowd that are tone deaf.

I was in the pub yesterday, and a dog-some sort of poodle cross- came up and pushed his nose into my glass. Owner apologised, I accepted, job done and we all moved on without having to fume about this two years later.

I am not a dog owner by the way, nor do I ever plan to be.

Went walking with my nephew, sister and husband. Nephew has his own beautifully behaved gorgeous dog and the nephew of my sister also. Sister has had two new puppies. The walk was extremely long and I kept saying that to protect their bones to please not go on a longer walk. Nephew agreed. Plus one of the dogs ran up to me and jumped, licking my face. Dog scratched my neck and ripped my new scarf. I was covered in wet and mud as they had just been in the water.

I was furious and called out naughty and don't do that - not in an aggressive way - lovely dog, just not trained properly obviously. My sister immediately came up to me and said in a very passive aggressive manner not to say naughty.

Later the same dog ate horse poo. I was horrified. Sister's husband laughed at my fear, called out the dog to jump up again and lick my face. I went home with my nephew and he found the whole walk extremely stressful as did his dog - shaking in the back - wee petal.

YANBU**

oh young dogs just love horse poo

my 10 year old dog loves dog poo and the puppy i have currently looking after just prefers the horse poo!

I would kick the dog away with the sole of my foot as it jumped up at me.

If I wasn't quick enough to use the sole of my foot I would kick it with my toe - which would hurt it more.

Quite often, when out running, I have to trample dogs because their fuck-wit owners won't keep them away from me.

Poor ickle diddums. Grow up.

@Lentilweaver how embarrassing that the owner apologised when their dog had done nothing wrong, and certainly nothing that you weren't expecting to happen when you had deliberately gone to a place where dogs are welcome. That dog had FAR more right to your drink than you did, it was probably young and thirsty and way cuter than you too. You were clearly emitting some pretty bad vibes as is obvious from your hyper aggressive posting on this thread.
Shame on you for mentioning it on this thread, you say you have got over it but you clearly have not as evidenced by your post. Presumably you were dressed in some pretty scruffy dirty and stinky clothing too. Do consider therapy which I think will really help you as surely you are no fun at parties right now with this kind of approach to life.

Eh?😂

The dog was definitely cuter than me.

Why did that comment warrant that 🤣

And what the heck op? Have you had a bad Sunday? Have the dogs eaten all your pumpkin?

Too many entitled and careless dog owners. Why should anyone be expected to accept being jumped on by some selfish idiots hound.

Yanbu. People who don’t leash their dogs in public areas are scum.

I would fuss the dog and put my trousers in the washing machine.

I'd do it the other way round.

I don't leash my dog in public areas, I'm not scum.

OP getting a bit of a hard time here IMO.

I can’t imagine anyone would not be at least a bit miffed if this happened to them, TBH, I would have been quite seriously pissed off myself.

Owners should be responsible for keeping their dogs under control - surely that’s a no brainier.

Some people are scared of dogs and more harm, both emotional and physical, could have been caused other than some muddy clothes.

Suspect opinions on this thread are split between whether you’re a dog owner or not…….

No. You're completely wrong there. People who do not have their dogs on leads and have them under no control are dicks yes. But I am not scum for having my dog off lead in areas that allow that. He has impeccable recall. He wouldn't be off otherwise.

I haven't read the replies but from reading all OP posts what the actual F is wrong with some people? Forget the mud for a second (although that's beyond annoying) a strange dog you don't know jumped on you, that's not OK! I've had dogs most of my life and I would not be happy if I was strolling through a park and a random dog jumped on me, I'm disabled although I look "normal" and this could seriously excarbate my injury. If your dog is regularly jumping on strangers then it needs to be on a lead, this could injure/traumatise/just plain inconvenience people with mud on their clothing.

Ime, the other things you mention happen very rarely, whereas dogs out of proper control are a frequent occurrence. They also carry an element of danger that the others don’t.

I agree, I’d be annoyed. Some dog owners think everyone should love their dog as much as they do but I actually dislike dogs and definitely don’t want strange dogs anywhere near my kids. Dogs should be on a lead if they don’t know recall skills.

Just because you don't like a particular type of dog it doesn't actually mean they are always the poorly behaved ones! I don't like staffies, but I accept there are a lot of well behaved lovely staffies out there, they just aren't a breed for me. I have a labradoodle who is the most well behaved polite dog, and has never jumped up at anyone. He has perfect recall and I am a completely responsible dog owner (having had dogs, trained and competed with them all my life). I'd rather have an intelligent poodle crossbreed to work with than some of the inbred KC pedigree breeds with their health and temperament issues I can tell you!

To the OP, a dog jumping up wouldn't have bothered me (I was jumped up at by a little scruffy terrier on the beach the other day, who had wet sandy / muddy paws) and I didn't mind, but I don't personally allow my dogs to ever behave like that as I know there are some people that don't like it and we all have to share public spaces. It wouldn't have ruined my day, it's just one of those things - say something calmly to the owner and then move on. There's nothing else you can do really.

I would have been very annoyed too. People should have their dogs on a lead if they behave like that. As for someone suggesting you make sure you wear easily washable clothes! Why should you have to? You wear what you want. Years ago I was walking with my partner and there was a couple with a bulldog who ran up to me and wiped his snotty slobbery face on my full length woollen coat. I was fuming. I gave her a mouthful I must admit, as I was very angry and she didn't give a shit, she just said I shouldn't be walking where people took their dogs! Scummy inconsiderate people.

I’d be livid and likely to instinctively punch the dog in the face!

This sounds absolutely reasonable. Aggression, especially with a stranger and in front of your child, will instantly calm the situation.

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That would be really dangerous if it's the wrong dog