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?

@MagicLoop So sorry you’re saying goodbye to your beautiful pup 💔 Sending you love and comfort, he clearly had a wonderful life with you. 💐

So parents have no responsibility to mind their child or teach them not to do dangerous things, don’t be a fool. If the kid had touched a hot surface, stepped in front of a bus or walked off the edge of a crumbling cliff would you be saying their parent didn’t have a responsibility to supervise them?

The dog owner should supervise the dog, the parent should supervise the child but every idiot knows you shouldn’t touch strange dogs, so I fundamentally disagree with you.

Oh does that go for xl bully’s too?

Yes. In some cases. There is a Bully local to me - always muzzled and on a lead - and he is very well behaved. In complete contrast to a couple of local small breeds that I could mention.