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?

Jusr like little girls play being mum to dolls we have now fully grown middle aged women and men playing mummies and daddies to their “fur babies”. Wierdos.

I've never owned a dog but I've always liked dogs and I've always tended to like the people who own them. I see their companionship to those who live alone as a lovely thing, especially the elderly. It is a nice thing for children to grow up with a dog, especially those without siblings. Can totally see why rural, country types who walk miles everyday would want one. And obviously working dogs on farms, for the blind etc.

I cannot abide the type of dog owner that has become more prevalent in recent years, they have no idea how to train a dog and the level of obedience they should be requiring. I have nothing but contempt for those with their barking, yapping dogs being dragged everywhere and then haring about everywhere accosting strangers. They should all have their dogs taken from them and the dogs put down.

Not sure you’d have a holiday let business without humans ehh..

I feel sorry for all those poor dogs being traipsed around busy town centres on a Saturday afternoon. They are everywhere and I have to avoid stepping on the tiny dogs.

I’m sure dogs love nothing better than to go shopping on a Saturday afternoon with hundreds of of people around them. Idiot owners.

Dog lover and owner here but still surprised by the fact dogs seem to be able to go everywhere nowadays.
I still always assume they wouldn’t be welcome in pubs or cafes unless sitting in an outdoor bit, but it seems not to be the case.

Still, I’d have children under 10 banned from most places if I could… 😅

John Lewis have a Santa’s grotto/meet Santa for dogs this year. The replacement of children with dogs seems to be becoming more common.

I love dogs and have two but I see them much like the dc, sometimes it’s really nice to go out without them!

This girl would absolutely hate being taken to shops or cafes. She'd much rather be exploring the local woodland or walking up on the moors, and so would I. We're very well suited.

YANBU. I love dogs, but they don’t need or want to be in shops and restaurants. That said, the Lake District has always been somewhere dogs have been welcomed pretty much everywhere.

Now I’ve heard everything!

yuck imagine bringing a wet stinking dog into a pub or restaurant. And worse still working there and tripping over the dog

Love of dogs hasn’t ever gone too far. People’s ridiculous entitled behaviour often does though 🙄

We tried a dog cafe once. We hated it. The dog hated it. He'd rather be outside with his ball or chasing squirrels.

We take our dog to dog-friendly cafes/pubs, but he definitely doesn’t pee on the floor (or anywhere indoors - he’s fully housetrained), and generally he just lies down and keeps an eye out for an treats he might be getting (it’s only really when he’s approached that he interacts with strangers). We’ve been out a few times when people have commented on how well behaved he is, which is lovely to hear, because he can be a right shithead at home at times. But then we’ve put the work in to make sure he’s appropriately behaved in public spaces, and we still make a judgement call every time - there are dog-friendly ‘low bang’ firework displays coming up, which I plan to go to, but I won’t be taking the dog as it’ll be too busy and he’ll still hate ‘low bang’ fireworks.

So I don’t think it’s the love of dogs that has gone too far necessarily, but people’s common sense and thought for others has gone out the window at times.

I live just outside the Lake District National Park and that's not my experience. Yes, there are lots of dogs, but I've never experienced a café packed with wet, yapping dogs weeing and tripping people over. My dog is very well-behaved in cafés on the rare occasions I take him. Sadly the poor old boy is going for his final, one-way trip to the vet's this morning and we won't be getting another dog, so I suppose at least we will no longer be contributing to the apparent hoards of rampaging canines. I will look forward to meeting lots of other people's dogs out and about (even in cafés) when I no longer have my own though.

I agree the number of dogs everywhere has become excessive.
Mumsnet HQ clearly disagrees, the number of dog adoption and pedigree ads I’ve had through this thread is comical 😅

Take care @MagicLoop 💙

@MagicLoop😍😢 so sorry..

I used to love dogs. Now I fucking can’t stand them, but mostly their owners.

You’re being over dramatic. I’m a dog owner who like most people rarely goes shopping in town anymore with or without a dog. The very rare times I do I rarely take my dog and when I do it’s because we’re en route to somewhere else or there is nobody to no look after her. She isn’t traipsed around and actually likes it more than I do.

Our city is pretty much the only one in our county and have never seen dogs everywhere and never had to avoid stepping on any so one can only assume other dog owners are like us. I have nearly tripped over children who aren’t being looked after properly several times.

Nipping into towns on errands with dogs is perfectly fine and dog owners will continue to do so whether you like it or not.

Your boy is beautiful @MagicLoop , and I imagine has had the most wonderful life with you. I’m so sorry, it’s always just heartbreaking. 💐

So sorry @MagicLoop. He looks a good old boy.

I'm sick of dogs every bloody where.
I saw a Chihuahua shit at the gate in Heathrow last year and that was it for me.

Dogs in pushchairs FFS what IS this? They’re NOT babies.

In a similar way it seems quite odd that so many dogs are anxious and cannot and must not be left alone for any amount of time.

I was at a designer outlet last weekend there were loads of dogs there and being an outlet they were brought purely to go to the shops. Wtf