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 !

Sorry boss, I can't take this Zoom meeting or reply to emails or make that phone call because I am twatting around with a random man, chasing a dog which isn't even mine. Or his.

So a dog has somehow escaped or been abandoned - either the owner is frantically looking for it or it's effectively a stray.

The dog gets into traffic and panics. You have a gap in your fence and it runs in to your garden.

A well meaning member of the public wants to catch the dog, put it on a lead and hand it over to a safe pair of hands. Unfortunately this means going through your house.

You decide to refuse access to do that - you'd prefer the dog got out and took its chances with the traffic?

Traumatic for the person who hit the dog. Awful for the dog. Terrible (assuming the dog's not been abandoned) for the owner.

Poor dog. Yes you could have prevented it by allowing them in to collect the dog. You don't sound very compassionate hope you've not got pets.

You don't have to, actually, unless the police have a warrant. Which you'd be able to see in most cases. You could ask for ID, in many cases you'd have arranged the visit yourself, and you could refrain from letting them in until you've phoned someone else for confirmation. None of those things apply to this in fact totally random bloke. Poor comparison.

Pretty sure there's a difference between a policeman there for a purpose and a bloke saying he needs help looking for a lost dog...
Seriously you would just let any strange man in your house if he had a good story? No ID needed, no appointment, just a cold knock at the door asking to come in?

Of course they could have waited for the dog to come out if they were that concerned.
Yanbu.

I think it’s very sad that you couldn't help out,

he didnt want to put it on a lead and take it out

YANBU. If he was that bothered about the dog he could have waited by the fence for it to come back out. No reason he needed to be in your house or garden.

I am a dog hater. But I think I would probably have let her in but asked her to take the dog away to wait for the warden rather than waiting in my garden. That way the dog would have been out of circulation and unable to be a nuisance.

It sounds as though the woman was "demanding" which would put anyone off though.

It is not your fault the dog was injured. There was no way you could have known this would happen.

What? Their actions culminated in a dog being injured? What are you talking about? OPs actions 2 weeks prior to the event had as much bearing on the injury as what the dog had for breakfast!

Except it's clear ot OP there's a dog in her garden - so unless they went round released it through the fence and then went on knocked on her door they're not exactly casing the joint

We don't even know the dog was in the garden at that point, only that it has been in the past and that he told OP it was. Might not have even done any waiting.

The man could have waited by the fence to get the dog,

The dog getting hit by a car weeks later when the OP has already blocked up the hole in the fence has nothing to do with her.

No because that is not what I wrote.

I wrote exactly what I meant. The poster I responded to wrote OP could be ostracised by her neighbours over this. I pointed out there’s no proof he is a neighbour.

In all likelihood as soon as Random Man stepped heroically out of OP's house the dog would have legged it out of the garden through whatever route it entered by!

@notmyproblems how is it your fault the dog was hit by a car when it was two weeks ago that you wouldn't let the random person access the garden? This is bizarre! fwiw I wouldn't have let them in either!

As an addendum to my previous post - sorry OP they had no right to ask to wait in your garden with the dog. I would have let them in to get it on a lead but they'd not have been hanging about.

I'm confused - was the dog hit by the car the day you refused a randomer access to your home? Or today because you've blocked up the hole so the dog can't get into your garden?

Yanbu.

No way would I be OK with someone's feral dog running around pissing and shitting up my lawn and yapping when im trying to work.

This is why we need pet licences.

If it was your teenage daughter home alone and a strange man knocked on the door and asked to come through the house into the garden to wait with a stray dog - would you be happy if she let him in?

No way would a stranger be allowed in my house!
Why couldn't they wait at the gap they saw the dog go into?

Dog nutters. They come out in full force over stuff like this.

My teenage daughter would know not to answer the door to a strange person especially in the first place dog in the garden or no dog in the garden. Don't you tell yours the same?

However, the OP is presumably not a teenage girl and she knew there was a dog out there.

They are fucking insane.

I actually wonder if those who think the op is BU own dogs.

As a dog owner myself I find it's often those who don't actually own a dog who have stronger views on what you should/shouldn't do in regards to dogs. It's a bit like those who have no children having stronger opinions on how kids should act, behave or be disciplined etc.