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 !

I work from home and am either home alone or with my 9 year old. No chance I'm letting a random man traipse through the house.

And if i did and ended up on the 6oclock news having been murdered there would be a thread on here full of people questioning why I let him through the door.

The post I responded to

phoenixrosehere · Today 13:16
She had never seen that man before except for the time two weeks ago. There’s no proof he is a neighbour to begin with.

You seem to be suggesting the man, neighbour or not, had some kind of nefarious purpose from the offset and the dog being in the garden presented the perfect opportunity to gain access. Do you seriously think criminals are waiting for shit like this to happen before making a move.m

This is a very good point!

This. It wasn't your responsibility but I get that the person just really wanted the dog to safe (nice person) and it would've been best if you could've helped. Poor dog. I hope it's okay .

I would probably have fetched the dog myself or atleast secured the hole quickly. It not just about a dog, it's the accidents a running dog can cause in the traffic as well. I could not have just said don't care like OP returning to work. Doesn't make it right for him to come screaming at her though, that's unhinged. But I do get that it must be frustrating when you're trying to do a good deed protecting dog and people and there you got this one person who just can't be bothered to help in any way.

Good question.

He had the time on his hands to want to wait inside OP’s property with her for the dog warden while she was working but not outside the fence near the gap where the dog would have run out of.

YANBU - not your problem. I would’ve chased it out my garden and blocked the hole but wouldn’t have cared where it went after this

So the previous incident was 2 weeks ago? So assuming the dog hasn't been waiting for rescue in your garden for the past fortnight, but actually went back to whence it came from and this is a separate escaping incident, then obviously - obviously! it is not your fault.

Are they meaning that the dog could have been collected by the 'warden' and taken out of commission? I mean, unless you live in the States, we don't have pounds here. Likely, the dog would have been returned to its irresponsible owner.

If the concerned stranger was so bothered, they could have (and should have) reported the owner and/or offered to help at source. Not at the random place the dog decided to end up.

@notmyproblems the fault was with the person who ran it over. The 'helpful' person should have been reporting the owner.

You seem to have missed that OP never said she knew the dog was in the garden. All she's said is that it had been before, and a man who has since been shown to be dodgy claimed it was.

I think that you were really mean

Would it have been are to look. The op managed to breakaway from her oh so important work call to answer the door, presumably if she’s living in an average size property this isn’t too much of an arduous task.

Just no. If the bloke was that concerned he would have waited by the whole in the fence, absolutely no reason for him to be in your garden. Whatever happened to it two weeks later is nothing to do with you and is fully on the irresponsible owners. Absolute batshittery on here!

Then they could have stood by the hole in the fence.

A separate point. She hasn't said she saw the dog there and so you're wrong to assume. Your whole argument is that the man wouldn't wait until the dog got into the garden, but you don't know that he did.

Watch out OP! You've angered the fur baby parents who think that everyone's entire lives should revolve around dogs!

Of course you should have stopped your working day to allow strangers to traipse through your house to then hold a dog in your property for however long you like! How dare you think otherwise! 😉

I haven’t assumed anything, did you not note the bit about the op checking her garden while the man waits.

I'm on your side OP.

No way am I letting a stranger in my home because of idiot dog owners.

Wait, so it's not safe for a teenage girl to even open the door but it is safe for an adult woman to invite a strange man in?

Do people who think OP should have let him in live in "naice" areas? Because if you lived where I do you would be keeping your chain on, dog or no dog.

It sounds as though the dog was out of the garden on the first occasion but when it escaped again it had nowhere to run as OP had rightly blocked a hole, therefore ended up in the road.
Op has every right to secure her garden?

Well it would have been nice to help but it wasn't possible so that's it.

Doesn't seem to be cared for if two weeks later it's still running about.

Wonder why the chap is so invested & keen to blame Op?

@notmyproblems how did the dog actually get out in the end?

He wasn't a nice person though, was he? He was weird and aggressive.

Meant what I said and as I told the other poster.

I didn’t assume he was a criminal. I said he was weird and suspicious after OP said he didn’t want to wait at the gap outside the gate where the dog would have run out like she suggested.