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Dog owner with no recall in a childrens park

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PleaseStopWithTheSmallTalk · 11/06/2024 20:01

DS (10) and I have just been to our local park, its a small grassy park with a path that goes around the outside of a childrens play area (swings, slide climbing frame). A man had a dog off the lead with no recall at all, he was shouting at the dog to try and get it back but had no controll at all.

DS was riding around the outside path and the dog bounded over to ds jumping up at his bike and barking, the owner shouted at it but it carried on. Ds decided to have a swing instead as he was scared of going back over. Another man joined him with his dog also off the lead and the both dogs then jumped all over another dog (who was on a lead) to the point where the owner had to pick up his dog and leave the park.

I noticed one of them had cans of beer and was drinking at this point. Dh met us in the park and the dog started up again jumping at ds to the point that he couldn't move his bike past and the owner just did nothing. I went over and said can you put the dog on the lead, at this point both men got very confrontational shouting at dh and swearing in front of DS about him being on a bike and that they had 'friendly dogs' out for a walk. We ended up leaving after they got quite rowdy towards DH.

AIBU to think we weren't in the wrong?

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ThisNoisyTealLurker · 11/06/2024 20:06

Not at all! Years ago I was in a small local kids play area and a man turned up with a sort of staffy type dog that was off the lead. It ran straight towards my two year old, who was thankfully right next to me and it jumped up at him. Admittedly it didn't appear to be 'going for' him but it was jumping up and so I picked my kid up and shouted at the man to put it on the lead. The guy started shouting, saying it's a dog walking park (slides, see saw etc) which was ludicrous. He was an absolute moron and becoming aggressive so we just left. The older I get the more I realise some people are just pieces of shit.

PleaseStopWithTheSmallTalk · 11/06/2024 20:32

ThisNoisyTealLurker I don't blame you, I know most dogs are friendly but just not worth the risk at all. I'm absolutely not the type to say something to anyone but just couldn't stand and watch them ignoring the dogs behaviour. My sister takes her dog out with us and always keeps her on the lead in spaces like that, just seems like common sense doesn't it.

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