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 !

And can we please stop telling women that we should be opening the door with a smile to random men who hammer on the door demanding access. Fucking hell.

Wild, isn't it? To top it all off the dog would not have been helped in any way by the OP letting this randomer traipse through her house!

What if OP was in a work meeting?

How very naive...

Can you tell me which posts are dog hating please? Can't find them....

Learn something new every day...

Keeping yourself safe = living In ivory tower

I agree that it isn’t neighbourly, and I would have tried to help. As I said up thread I have dealt with a similar situation (I get random dogs running into my garden too, living next to a popular walking spot) by calling my dog-owning neighbour with a lead.

I am however nervous of dogs having had one run into my garden and maul a deer. I don’t think that’s hysterical but perhaps this falls into your category of reasons to fear dogs. Plenty of people I know are nervous of dogs without a defined reason though. Hopefully they’d try to help in some way though!

YANBU. Not your dog, not your responsibility. I would’ve had the same response as you. People who cannot prevent their dogs from ‘escaping’ shouldn’t have dogs in the first place.
Also, if you’re WFH, why should you interrupt your working day to assist some feckless idiot who can’t keep their dog under control?

Couldn’t you clip it on a lead and put it out front?
couldn’t the bloke who was SOooo concerned go round the back and block the hole off effectively trapping the dog in your garden til the warden arrived?
I 100% wouldn’t let a bloke I didn’t know into my house, but I’d either offer to clip the dog onto a lead if the had one … if not I’d suggest they trapped it in my garden till the actual warden arrived or an owner came forward.
It’s very odd behaviour for the guy to come back and blame you.. I’d have shut the door too!

EXACTLY THIS!!!

no way would I be letting a strange bloke come into my house just because he claims some random dog is in my garden .. he could easily have blocked the hole from the outside or waited and caught it as it exited the garden

Ok! We can agree to disagree! Not all men are going are awful. There was a backstory. If wasn’t as if a random man knocked on the door without a reason. What a sad world we live in! Anyway. We all have our opinions.

Nobody said all men are going to be awful. That's a strawman. We're saying this particular man was behaving dubiously, that it's foolish to assume a story about an animal in need is true and that this man's subsequent behaviour has actually proven OP made the correct call not letting him in her home. You're entitled to be as credulous as you like, of course, but some of us have more sense.

Decent men don't bang on the door and demand to be let in. They ring the bell, ask nicely and discuss a mutually agreeable solution.
Excepting an actual emergency of course, such as a tiger is chasing him.

Just use a belt. Not hard.

I am obviously not as sharp witted as you!

Well tbf I have been a long term dog owner (elderly dog died last year) , I have found silly situations where I have been visiting DP or similar and forgotten to take a lead. Used my handbag strap once. So probably not sharp witted in that I forgot the dog lead on more than one occasion. Resourceful, possibly. NB I did like the Driving Over Lemons book but the author was braver than I would have been!

Once again for the people who can't read the thread - the OP was working.

I actually probably would have helped a hedgehog, because they are endangered.

I'm wondering what mythical dog warden people are referring to - most councils have done away with them now. Typical good common sense when there are a lot more dogs about!

i don’t wear belts? Next suggestion?

Your imagination?

Taser? That would keep the man, owner and dog quiet a bit whilst I get on with my work unbothered

Fair. But I’d always help the dog if I possibly could. Always.

Obviously I wouldn’t do this, @Sharptonguedwoman not to the dog anyway as I care about animals but why should anyone be disturbed and have to come up with ways to secure a dog because some rubbish dog owner can’t keep it under control?

I agree. Of course the owners were unreasonable not keeping the dog secure in the first place, but why not let someone though your house (or through a side gate) into the garden to facilitate the dog's retrieval? Even if the person was in the garden for a while.

As for the WFH excuse, I'm not sure what's that's got to do with it. It's not a major disruption surely.

How is WFH an excuse? If you’re working, you are working regardless of where you are!?

Are you in the habit of allowing strange men into your house? And then sitting in your garden for an unspecified amount of time whilst they wait for the dog people to retrieve it?

This would be a big disruption don’t be silly