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?

I said 'threaten to'!

You can report owners to the police if their dog is 'dangerously out of control', which includes 'being worried you might be injured by them'. If you have been covered with mud while in company of a small child I would say that was a legitimate fear.

And yes, I do hate stupid, useless, lazy dog owners.

My neighbours dog did this all the time especially when I had the hose out watering the flower beds.
We used to mud wrestle and I'd send the dog home filthy and wet. Dog and I had a great time, I don't think the neighbours were too chuffed to get their dog back in that state lol.

No, I would find it mildly annoying, but I wouldn't post the zillionth thread about this and get on with my day.

Agreed.

Dog owners need to keep their dogs under control. I don't want to interact with your animal.

AllThingsServeTheBeam the pp said that dogs should be let off the lead, your dog included if it has good recall. But that's not the same for every dog. I walk a dog and the owner wants him kept on the lead all the time to protect him from bigger dogs

Farbgel self defence spray. I used to carry pepper spray but this is legal. After being mauled quite badly as a teen, I no longer fuck around with out out of control dogs.

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What does it do?

@TonTonMacoute you can report them to police, not sure how far you'd get! Dog made my trousers dirty.....

Hardly crime watch material!

Are you?

You'll never get sensible responses to dog threads on Mumsnet.

My dog is more interested in her ball, than any other person or dog.

Had this in a park. A dog ran up and licked Ds ice cream. I was livid. She didn’t even apologise. I gave her a right ear bashing. I’m allergic so extra annoying.

Alas, poor Digger. Still causing trouble 22 years after his death.

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I live in hope. Let's face it, we're going through a massive societal change. I might start up some petitions to add this to the new societal agenda.

I would be a little annoyed at getting muddy, but this would be outweighed by being very happy to meet a dog. I would certainly pet it and make a fuss of it and then I'd move on, my day having been made a bit nicer.

On the rare occasion this has happened to me the owner has apologised immediately and I've said "no problem! isn't he/she a good boy/girl!"

It doesn't happen nearly as often as MN makes out though. The vast majority of off-lead dogs I see in London parks are very well-behaved and mostly interested in whatever they're sniffing, not other random humans.

Oh I see, you are rude as well as well resorting to the classic “it was a joke” line when your attempt to silence another poster is called out. “It was a joke” - the universal sign of bullies everywhere.

Nevermind, as you were.

Some dog owners have no consideration towards other people. I have a dog phobia so this would have terrified me but the owner wouldn’t care. I think dogs should be kept on leads if they’re known to bother people in this way. Won’t happen of course.

Jesus H.

They really need to bring in the blocking function on this site ASAP.

If it bothered me then I would not walk through a park.

The one time I have been furious at a dog owner was when I was out for a run and their dog was on a long lead stretched right across the path. I didn't see it until the last minute and in trying to swerve went head over heels. That wasn't anything to do with the dog though. Long leads across public paths are dangerous.

I don't think anyone is saying it is OK. But it isn't something to get upset over. Accept the apology graciously and move on with your day. Its mud. It isn't going to hurt you.
I've had children run up and get their sticky fingers on my clothes. I've had birds shit on me. Friends who have spilt red wine on my dress. None of these things are worth getting upset over.

That’s unfair, so if you don’t want to be jumped on by a dog you don’t get to go to the park?? Pretty ridiculous.

As soon as I saw a dog barrelling towards me, I'd turn my back and walk promptly away. If I had a child or dog with me, I'd put myself between the oncoming dog and them.

Avoiding eye contact will do bigger all if it's already legging it over.

If that didn't work, and the dog got mud on me, I'd be annoyed for 3 nanoseconds before remembering that it was just mud, not nuclear waste. 🙄

I live in a city centre park. In the park. I have to walk through it to work, in smart clothes. What do you suggest I do? Move? Why should people going about their business have to change what they do to avoid badly trained dogs? Ridiculous! It’s attitudes like that lead to badly trained dogs.