I go for a dog walk with my friend every week. We don’t really do much else and we’re not particularly close any other way, but we’ve been doing this for 10 years and live in the same village.
She has three small dogs who are completely out of control.
When I meet her, they run up to me and jump up on me, bark at me endlessly and she does not try to make them be quiet.
When we’re on the walk, if they meet other people, she allows them to do this to them.
She makes no attempt to stop them and even if she does, they take absolutely no notice. She is not embarrassed by their behaviour and seems to think they’re doing nothing wrong.
They have no recall and regularly run away. Once they chased a whole field of sheep and she couldn’t get them back. People were videoing it and I was dying inside.
She spends the whole walk putting them on and off leads when she thinks that they will run off or a dog or horse is approaching in the distance..
Every time she does, it takes about five minutes because she is obese and can’t bend down very well and we have to stop.
She gets angry that other people use the same public walk.
The dogs are completely incontinent and have weed on the floor in a café which she just casually mops up with a napkin. Again she doesn’t think this is bad or unusual. When a lady told her it was disgusting, she was really angry and defensive.
I’m getting really embarrassed to the point that I have said to people on walks jokingly that they are not my dogs and mine are the other three (that are behaving). I have said things to her and she acknowledges that my dogs are much better trained than hers, but she ignores any tips that I give her and says they’re doing nothing wrong. She thinks because these dogs are really small that it doesn’t matter.