Not to help catch a stray/escaped dog! Now it’s my fault it’s been injured apparently!

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Someone’s dog keeps escaping and for some reason it kept making its way into my garden. It had been dodging cars apparently and being a nuisance. Regularly have people knocking asking is it mine.

Two weeks ago someone saw it run into my garden and they were banging on the door . I answered (I was WFH and busy) and they were demanding to be allowed into the garden to keep hold of the dog till the warden could get there. I said no. Wait till it goes back out again (I didn’t want someone I don’t know in my house / garden) then catch it and secure it .

Ive since got the gap fixed and the dog can’t get in anymore. Haven’t seen it

Had a knock on the door today (same person) saying the dog had been hit by a car and they’d had to take it to a vet and how it all could have been avoided had I allowed them access and they hoped I was happy with having it on my conscience. So i just closed the door as they were still talking which made them shout and bang on the door???

Im not the irresponsible dog owner so it’s not my fault !

YES I KNOW.

Any employer who had my respect would have let me stop working for 5-10 minutes to attend to a loose animal.

This is outing but I once insisted my brand new MD stop the car on our way to a sales conference so I could shepherd a loose horse off the A road so that they didn't cause and get into an accident.

As a not-horsey person he found it amusing and was genuinely quite impressed, telling everybody about it during his intro speech while I went very red 😳

I'm wracking my brains to think of a single employer in my employment history who would have had a problem with 10 minutes to deal with a loose dog. There is one past employer who I think would have been awful about it, and they were horrendous employers for a multitude of reasons.

Through my house yes. I'm not terrified of every man I meet.

It's not about being terrified of every man that's melodramatic. it's about having common sense that actually letting a complete stranger in your house when there are viable alternatives is probably not a sensible thing to do.

Im not the irresponsible dog owner so it’s not my fault

You could have helped and chose not to.

So put herself at risk? Okkaayy.......

And the work she was busy with?

I’m not terrified of every man I meet, but I wouldn’t be allowing a strange man to come through

There are so many possible scenarios where the woman could fall victim, why do you ignore this fact?

Glad you're not mine either.
Letting a random man into your house and garden, next door to my garden? No thanks..

Good for her.
She has a lot more common sense than a lot of posters on this thread.

Fuck yes, imagine living next door to someone that gullible.

I think you are very uncaring and selfish and can well understand the OP being very upset. I hope that you are more caring about people.

What do you imagine happening? Said random man murdering me with an axe and some of my blood spraying through your no doubt robust privet hedge over your petunias?

Who said anything about letting the man into your house? Get dog, put on leash, pass dog through front door (or garden gate) to man. Not a problem unless you're the sort to get hysterical about dogs or anyone knocking on your door.

What I have done in a similar situation is call my dog-owning neighbour to come over and help take the dog to safety. I personally couldn’t have left it as a dog potentially getting lost and injured. But I would also not have liked a stranger in my house.

Poor dog

OP said access to the garden would have to be through the house, so presumably there's no garden gate. Also, why have you decided there was a leash available and that the dog would've been safe to approach with it?

Same. I've rounded up a few dogs, horses and even sheep in my time. I'm a country girl though - or at least, was born one. Can't imagine not helping someone out with their animals.

What if OP was in an important meeting?

What if her boss WOULD be very annoyed at OP being missing for a time?

What if the dog had bitten her?

What if the man had attacked her? He was shown to be aggressive 2 weeks later.

Not having a lead in your house and not wishing to approach a dog doesn’t equate to being hysterical about them.

It obviously was safe as the OP didn't say it wasn't or that she was scared of it.

If the owner turned up to collect it, he presumably had a leash. I keep several in my house and if not, you can always improvise, at least for a few minutes to remove an animal from your house, tbh.

Indeed! I own a dog and have a lead but there's no way I'd approach an unknown dog and risk getting bitten.

Actually, not being able to deal with a random dog in your garden would say exactly that to me, unless we're talking about something potentially scary/dangerous like a pitbull or XL bully, or there's a back story which explains the fear. Just not wanting to stop working for 2 mins to deal with it - and be neighbourly - isn't that.

You really need to get better at reading OPs posts before being combative.

The bloke wasn't the owner, or said he wasn't anyway. And OP hasn't even said the dog was there. Only that the bloke claimed it was. There's nothing about her seeing it at all, much less conducting a safety assessment.

The sheer level of total invention coming from posters on this thread slagging the OP off is off the scale.

oh ffs get a grip!

Why don't people read before criticising the OP? The man banging in the door wasn't the owner. So why would he have a lead? The garden could only be accessed by this man coming into OPs house. OP very sensibly didn't want to let a strange man into her house to ostensibly collect a dog he didn't own.

Lmao you sound barking.