To say love of dogs has GONE TOO FAR !!

[HildegardVonBingham]

DP’s grandparent’s 60th wedding anniversary, and we are all in the Lake District to celebrate. Every pub and cafe is crawling with wet dogs. We went out for dinner this evening and the pub was full of incessantly yapping dogs. A woman let her dogs piss all over the floor of the bar - disgusting. When confronted, she just turned on her heel and left. It is almost as bad in London - going to the loo in a pub is fraught with danger as you may run trip over the leash of a sausage dog with complex emotional needs and break your neck 😡😡😡 AIBU to say all dog owners should have to have a license and go on a civic sense training course at a minimum / be made to live in one big kennel with their mutts away from us at a maximum?

Dog owner and lover here. .. Don't expect to spend £20 in Dunelm cafe to listen to the incessant yapping of fucking ddogs...

Please, please, please may this thread be flooded with photos of all your lovely pups!!

going to the loo in a pub is fraught with danger as you may run trip over the leash of a sausage dog with complex emotional needs and break your neck

😭😭😭😭😭

Pls am I wrong !!!!!

Obviously the woman should have cleaned up the piss

but love of dogs doesn’t go far enough, thousands of cunts abandon dogs every year

Some mumsnetters do seem to have an awful lot of trouble with dogs, stealing their picnics, weeing on their bags etc. Very odd that they seem to have issues every time they leave the house.

Had a similar situation where I was eating in a cafe, table next to us had dogs and the dogs weed all over the floor. Owner left it and moved tables!!!

Yes, another dog gallery would be great.

Cant say I’m bothered.

too many places have indeed gawn t’ the dogs.
was in primark and two young women pushing a dog pram… two yappers on board accompanying their owners looking for new clothes. I mean c’on what has the world come to. Leave the dogs at home ffs they don’t even like shopping 🤣. Dogs need exercise not pushing about like a flipping furry baby.

I agree dog owners need to be responsible. Ones that aren’t, drive me nuts as they tar us all with the same (dog-haired) brush. I have 4 dogs. Common sense tells me I only take dogs that can behave into social settings (in my case that’s currently two out of the four as the other two are rescues with ‘issues’ around people they don’t know). I love going to cafes etc that allow dogs if they are well behaved. Obvs only a twat let’s her dog pee on the floor and doesn’t clean it up!

Really, the same MNer? That’s very unlucky.

I like dogs and own one but don’t understand why they need to go everywhere. Garden centres, cafes, beaches, restaurants, pubs. Just leave them at home, or have some consideration of others.

I was on a beach in the summer with my
young children, dogs running along the beach off lead. One did a massive poo next to where why kids were playing. Granted woman cleared it up but my youngest was so close to stepping in it. Absolutely gross and I was annoyed they didn’t have better control over them!

I love dogs and have billions of them. Do I want to see one in a restaurant or shop - absolutely not.

@LaurieFairyCake Language !

Absolutely happy for pubs and cafes to allow dogs in. The fact that you mention there were lots of dogs in the places you visited suggests that the business needed this, or they would have been nearly empty. When it’s raining, like today, families tend to stay home. But people with dogs have to go out to exercise them, so then they utilise cafes and pubs, helping to keep them open.

I mean this is absolutely not related to the op’s post at all. Someone can be a terrible abuser and abandon a dog, AND on a separate note, someone else can be an obnoxious arse who lets their wet dog sit on the pub sofa (lovely to have dog butt all over a sofa where people sit/put their hands down to stand up/kids sit on) and put it’s drooly mud covered mouth all over the table….as I witnessed today.

It’s fine for dogs to be in dog friendly pubs and cafes. Not sure why anyone is pretending otherwise. It’s up to you to check whether the place you’re going to meets your wants. If it doesn’t, go elsewhere. And if there’s no where else that meets your standards, unlucky!

This^

Since covid I have work colleagues who can't leave their dogs alone to come into the office.
And what is it with dog pushchairs for able bodied dogs ffs.

But surely even in dog-friendly cafes it’s not ok for them to be peeing on the floor and leaving that for the staff to clear up? Or yapping incessantly?

These are my girls ❤️

They are very well behaved and I do take them to the odd cafe or garden centre.

The love of dogs doesn't go far enough imo, but I do wish more owners loved training their dogs, that seems to have went wildly downhill since covid.

It's got to the point that some of the less well ventilated pubs I've visited recently now stink of dog the way they used to smell of fags 🤢

They are gorgeous. Their size difference makes them even more adorable. 😍

I don't mind them but Im more of a cat person really. Dogs are ok as long as their owners clean up after them.

It’s possible to love dogs and still think they don’t belong everywhere and that too few owners have them under control.
No one minds well behaved, trained dogs on leads with owners who pick up after them and who keep a look out for other people (ie don’t walk 2 adults and big dog abreast on a small pavement or letting dogs run loose on cycle paths because there’s a tiny bit more grass that side). It’s just so few people seem to care about others anymore - what about allergies and fears of dogs? Should my dad not be allowed to go into pubs because he’s allergic and now there’s a high possibility of dogs there? The dogs trump his human needs and wishes? Really?