My son's friendship group are quite close and my husband and I are quite close with the parents. Each new years for the past 2 years there's been a get together. In the past, it's been at other people's houses and it was our turn this year. The others who've hosted before have dogs, but we don't really want them there lol. I live in Australia btw so it's quite warm, and we were able to host an outdoor gathering. But I still didn't expect anyone to bring dogs to the non-dog household. The first family rocked up, and they had their two dogs with them. Two other families did the same. None of the families mentioned anything about the dogs.
About 5 minutes into the event one of the dogs took a dump on the grass. One of the other owners said "Why don't we just do a sweep for any gifts at the end and pick it up then", which everyone agreed to. I will admit, they did clean up everything nicely and there wasn't any poop left by the end.
However, what also irked me was that, during the fireworks at midnight, one of the dogs (a black labrador) went absolutely ballistic. The parent said to the kid (one of my son's friends siblings), "take rocky inside so she calms down". The kid went and watched iPad or something inside, but I feel it's a bit disrespectful to just invite the dog into the house. It did leave some fur etc over the couch which was a bit of a pain. I spoke to the owner and they offered to pay for cleaning and hoovered the couch lightly themselves.
AIBU for thinking this is just a bit entitled and rude or am I just out of touch with reality? They did pick up the poop at the end but still...