UNHINGED woman screaming at me for “putting my dog in boot”

[Brouge]

I don’t deny my dog was in the boot of my (saloon) car for 30 secs. BUT we get the dog to jump in the boot where we have towels to give him a wipe down before putting him on the back seat. The boot is totally self contained so OBVIOUSLY it would be very bloody cruel.

Did this yesterday and this nutter comes screaming over from the other side of the park’s car park asking if I was serious. I tried explaining to her what I was doing but she wouldn’t have any of it. It was really weird. I said go look at the backseat of my car where you will see a dog seatbelt and car seat cover. Clearly a set up for the dog. But she refused to look. Said I was only putting the dog in the back cause I got caught out. Took photos of my license plate and said she was going to post me online and report me. What the actual fuck. She was an inch from my face at one point.

It’s so bizarre!

I’m worried this freak is going to blast me on the internet and spread lies

I assume you mean on some kind of "SpottedBrougetown" page on FB? If so, all you need to do is comment on the post, saying that it was your dog and exactly what you do. This woman was BVU not to look in the car and see the arrangement - most people will totally get it and the whole thing will soon die down.

You sound like a nice, sensible dog owner to me. Please don't worry about it too much and give your dog a big hug for being such a good boy, getting cleaned up before he goes in the car.

I thought drying dogs off in the boot of the car was a very normal procedure.

I live by the sea and we get absolutely loads of dog walkers. So I see them getting cleaned off in the manner you describe very regularly.

Honestly OP don't let this woman's behaviour upset you. She was being ridiculous.

When we had a saloon car, we used to put doggo in the boot all the time and fold a back seat down so he could still see what was going on.
Ignore the mad woman OP.
If she posts about you on SM just explain. It will backfire on her.

I think you should report her to the police.

How would ahe know who are? Or you her? On the internet

There's nothing wrong with a dog travelling in the boot anyway! My dog used to. You take the shelf out so they can sit up and look out the window, put their bed back there and they're happy as Larry.

@PollyBell the woman took photos. There are many Facebook pages where people post photos and berate the people in the photos.

If she posts and you see it, comment with the truth and make her look stupid. If you don’t see it, I wouldn’t worry about it.

I’m not online so worried it will be shared without my knowledge

But it's not illegal to transport a dog in the boot 🤷🏻‍♀️ of a car
She crazy!!

I agree. But tbf my boot does not have a shelf so it’s not acceptable for him to travel in the boot of my car. The boot is totally separate.

But my husband has a jeep so my dog does go in the boot of his car as we have taken the shelf out.

But if you don’t see it and nobody who knows you sees it and shows it to you, why do you care? People post utter crap on the internet all the time, most people with half an ounce of intelligence can see through the rubbish and the ones who can’t are beyond help anyway. She was an idiot, forget about her and get on with your life.

Boot is like this. IMO it’s not acceptable to put a dog in this (unless you put the seat down like a pp described)

Do you have any friends who are on social media who could do a pre-emptive post about you being verbally assaulted by an ignorant self righteous woman who refused to believe the truth?

Why can't a dog go in the boot!? Mine does, he has a seat belt in there. I'm baffled.

In a saloon car the boot is completely self -contained - it's isn't possible to remove a shelf or fold seats down to access the rest of the car.

Please remember @Brouge that you're writing an entire thread about something which might happen.

Not has happened, but might happen. She took photos of your licence plate which is a weird thing to do, but she didn't take pictures of you or your dog.

We had dogs when some of ours were young. We had 4wd/SUV type cars but we always called the back hatch area ‘the boot’. My eldest, a preschooler, at the time would always tell people we put our dogs in the boot. Obviously, I would clarify it was a 4wd/SUV style hatch not a sedan boot. But no doubt they told it to preschool teachers etc who probably thought we locked dogs in a sedan boot. To clarify why they spoke about it so much, they were always super excited when we loaded the dogs in to take them to beach/somewhere for a walk as it meant an exciting place for them also.

Everyone will think she is mad.

Doggy Vigilante Woman. Only dog lover in the village,...... Waaaa, will someone please think of the fur babies!!!!

Some dog owners are insane that’s all, they think they’re the only people in the world suitable for dog ownership. What you were doing was completely normal.
A woman shouted at me over the summer that my dog was at serious risk of dying from heatstroke and I needed to get him indoors at once - he had just come out of an air conned car and had a drink of water and it was only about 20c 😂 I would have found it funny if my kids hadn’t been with me and my youngest was upset thinking the dog was about to die!

If you are not online how are you posting this?

Haha I used to dry my kids in the boot at the beach! This seems totally normal to me and I would just think 'mad.dog woman's I saw anything about it on SM.

Oh goodness @carpedaim ...really? "It isn't possible" - just a blanket statement?

One of my best friends is a fleet manager so weirdly I know a bit about cars.

I can name off the top of my head several popular saloon cars where seats can fold:

• Audi A6 has 60/40 fold seats
• BMW 3 series can fold 40 / 20 / 40 depending on how you configure your seating
• Mazda 6 SL has folding seats
• Audi A4, Jag XE and Jag XF all had option of folding seats and the "ski hatch" thing which some people use to put down and allow access to boot

So I just wouldn't say in a blanket way that "in a saloon car the boot is completely self contained". This is not true for all saloon cars.

As in I don’t have SM accounts