Dog came to our house viewing

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Our estate agent brought a potential buyer round to view our house today who turned up with their dog. I saw them on the front door ring camera carry it in to our house but when I checked the back garden camera I could see it walking on our carpet!

We have a 5 year old and a 5 month old and it walked all over where the boys play (luckily most of their things were put away for the visit) and the estate agent knows this.

The dog also was carried into their bedroom and held above our baby’s cot.

if this hadn’t annoyed me enough when asked about it the estate agent lied and said the dog was carried the whole time. When I told her we can see it on the ring she said she’d make a note that no pets would be allowed on future viewings and that’s it ok as the dog didn’t go to the toilet in our garden.

I don’t think I’m being unreasonable but just wanted to gauge opinions before I speak to the agent properly tomorrow and whether that’s normal behaviour or is as bizarre as I think it is.

Totally agree

Absolutely ridiculous OP on many levels. If the owner had a cat it would become really distressed with a dog smell all over the house. And of course the allergies issue. But mostly it's just wrong and entitled and not OK.

I can't believe someone thought it was appropriate to bring their dog to a house viewing, didn't ask in advance and the agent let them carry on. When we were viewing we made arrangements so we weren't bringing our small daschie on viewings. It's someone else's house they are trying to keep nice for sale. One time we got massively delayed in traffic and my in laws who we were meant to drop him to came and met us and sat in their car so we could do the viewing. Not the owners problem. We love him to bits and would have carried him but he wasn't invited.

This is so funny…..ok - keyboard warrior!

I'm a dog lover! I love my dog and I can squeal with excitement when driving past cute dogs.
It's really weird to take a dog to view a house What dog owner wants approval from the pet in whether they should buy a house! I also think the estate agent should not be enabling peoples weird behaviours

Did the dog like your house? One bark for 'yes', two for 'no'.

I'm a dog lover, I have a dog and 2 young kids BUT I still think it's unacceptable that the estate agent let the viewer bring their dog to the viewing and lied to OP about it. It's simply about respecting boundaries and telling the truth, not about dogs tbh.

I bring my dog to house viewings….7 figure properties…..
I do check with the agent though - whether or not it’s ok, it may be entitled of me, but at the price point I am looking at I don’t expect to hear a no 🤭

Step away from Selling Sunset.

Dog lover here as so many of us are but not appropriate at all, I’d be cross too.

I bring my dog to house viewings….7 figure properties…..
I do check with the agent though - whether or not it’s ok, it may be entitled of me, but at the price point I am looking at I don’t expect to hear a no 🤭

-sent from my council flat 😂

I’m a bit disappointed to read that if came with someone. I thought it had turned up on its own when I read the thread title.

YANBU - but your description of the event is a bit OTT. Do you have issues re contamination? Even so, I wouldn't dream of imposing my dog on a stranger in their home.

While there is of course nothing wrong with council flats, in fact the country needs more social housing…not sent from council flat. Currently at country house 🤭

I would be logging a complaint about the estate agent and then changing agents.

I'm sorry but that's a boundary completely overstepped - what if any of your family had allergies? What if the dog had peed / pooped on your property? Licked your stuff or chewed / clawed at your belongings?

Entitled on the viewers behalf and piss-taking on the agent's behalf. If they have showed up with the dog without mentioning it, they should have refused entry.

A dog isn't a small child.

Good for you!! So because it's higher end of the market you're automatically entitled to? It's 7 figures so you can look down on us with our 6 figure properties and we are the ones who are unreasonable for not permitting domesticated animals into our home, which we are trying to sell? If you called at my house for a viewing you & your hairball would t have got over the door but it's way below your price range anyway.

Dogs are everywhere. Bill them for a deep clean of your carpets and say absolutely no dogs in future.

No, to other posters, my ddog does not go everywhere with me. But it does depend on distance. If I were looking at a property a 4 hour drive away, the ddog would be with me, a 40 min run away, she’d be left at home.

Can't you leave the dog elsewhere?.

Not okay. Most dogs smell of dog and whilst I have no problem with that, carpets of houses that are being sold should not smell of dog. I have been to dozens of viewings and at least four of them had their dogs in the car - one of them for two hours! So who the hell thinks it’s okay to turn up with one and not keep it in the car?

Animals also behave completely differently in different environments. I hope the owner was confident the dog wasn’t going to lift a leg to your bannister, pee, and mark their territory.

I would be thrilled if a dog turned up to view my house. But after making a fuss of it, I would want it held or kept in the car.

Your estate agent is bang out of order and I would sack him/her. It’s their job to work for the client’s best interest, not bend over backwards for buyers with odd demands.

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When we sold our home, we had babies just learning to crawl. We asked the estate agent to ask people to take shoes off. You're in someone's home, looking to buy it, not walking round an office or a shop. The audacity of people to think bringing their dog across another family's floor is ok. That's before you involve issues with allergies/other pets etc. And your estate agent LIED to you? Check your contract, and sack them.

No one is looking down on anyone or saying you are unreasonable. Each to their own.

Wow,I love dogs,but that’s totally unacceptable on so many levels.So many what if’s,potential deadly allergies etc.I would be thanking this agents for their services and leaving glowing review for them.

I’m a dog lover and take my dog to dog friendly pubs/cafes semi regularly which I know is not popular on here but taking my dog into someone else’s home without express permission??? Absolutely not 😱 I can see why you’re fuming

You do though. How did you not cringe at yourself as you typed this: at the price point I am looking at I don’t expect to hear a no 🤭

You are welcome to accept dogs into your own place, but not to expect to take them into other people's just because you have money. Clearly the person selling those places does too.

Allergies, religion, other pets in the house, fear. Any number of reasons apart from it just not being necessary to take your dog to a house viewing.