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!

It's ok @Brouge I knew what you meant.

I am definitely captured in the images. She had her phone out and seemed to be videoing

I suspect she posts on the dog house forum on MN. It's more bat shit than AIBU. To be fair some very helpful people too but I posted a genuine question when getting a new puppy and my God the nasty answers were unreal.

Oh I see, yeah you couldn't put a dog in there.

My grandmother used to say "What the eye does not see the heart does not grieve over". She was a very wise woman. If OP does not use the type of social media (which is largely a waste of time) where people slag one another off then she will not know or care if some mad random has published lies about her.

Why so defensive? No one should put a dog in a self-contained boot; the potential for overheating is huge and you wouldn't be able to see if the dog was in distress. You should be welcoming this message, rather than trying to undermine it with a list of saloon models that are the exception rather than the rule.

I would be looking forward to her posting it tbh. (I know you said you're not on sM, but tell all your friends to keep an eye open!). I always like hearing the other side of a story, especially when it comes to pets !!

So you’ll never know what she does then? I think this is a case of she’s a nutter and move on. I wouldn’t have even engaged with her, she was never going to say gosh I’m sorry I overreacted a bit there. Royal family it - never explain.

Missing the point much 😣

Perhaps OP means not on social media such as fb. I'm not either and my life is okay with out it, maybe she's like me and not interested. I don't regard MN the same as fb and the rest of it.

I had my lab in the boot of my Renault Clio all the time. No parcel shelp obvs .
For long journeys too. No seats down as kids / luggage in the back seats . Stopped regularly for him to drink and stretch his legs.
He could lie down and he had a soft bed in there . As he aged , he did require lifting in and out (died age 13 )
OMG ! SO glad I was not reported to RSPCA!

Some people are just so wired they go around all day looking for fights. We used to have a rescue dog - likely half husky half golden retriever so a gorgeous blonde fluffy husky who had a few anxiety issues and verbalised a lot, definitely had suffered abuse before he was abandoned.

He used to get very excited on walks and pull and make husky sounds that sound a bit like complaining. We consulted a dog trainer and got a few tips so we would do things like when he was pulling me over I would stand on the lead and wait for as long as it takes for him to calm down - I would often also hold one of his ears as apparently it calms dogs. So one day I was standing there, stood on his lead, gently holding the ear as the dog yowled and pulled and had a woman approach and start screaming at me for abusing the dog. She claimed I was hitting the dog - her rational was that although she hadn’t seen me do it she knew because of the way the dog was yowling and pulling - she called the police who refused to come (likely not her first rodeo). She followed me for about 15minutes screaming at me - she was a young girl in her 20s.

They did a study where they monitored brain waves while getting people to say negative things and found that it actually alters people’s brain waves and they are then left more predisposed to having negative thoughts. Some people leave their houses prepared to get angry at something!

Oh this dog exclusively rode in boots, he would scramble and get anxious on the car seats so we put him in the boot (hatch back) removed the top and he would hang his head over the car seat and howl the whole way down the motorway - we avoided taking him anywhere lol.

You clearly weren't at fault. If it helps I suspect I may have behaved occasionally like this madwoman at the beginning of perimenopause before I discovered HRT. I was quite literally forced to take HRT due to the fear of being arrested for my bizarre and quite out of character behaviour. I hope I didn't do anything to make anyone worry about it like you are but I definitely screamed at strangers on more than one occasion, however once the moment had passed I dropped it and would never have posted anything online about it later. It was literally occasional mad moments. Did she look around that age to you?

Oh and I apologise for anyone who may have come across me in real life at that time!😖 It wasn't much fun for me either.

My sentiments exactly, just move on with life OP, don't give nut job anymore head space, not worth it.

Just as well she didn't see me sitting my daughter in the boot at the beach to get the sand off her feet or she would have combusted.

This. Although I would actually create a FB account and then as soon as she posts, I would post the ACTUAL version of events with a massive NOW FUCK OFF YOU NOSY COW at the end 😀

She's a nutter, an awful nutter. Far too many of them about these days. Sorry OP, hopefully that's your quota of meeting nutters done for a long time.

You wouldn't be upset if people were talking about you on a public platform where your friends/family/work/ransoms can see?

I don't even see why a dog can't travel in the boot- it isn't air tight, people crate dogs for hours, space to stretch out, contained

My dog sits in the footwell between my feet when the whole family are in the car. She has space under the seat to stretch out or she curls into a ball and sleeps (often on my coat).

Obviously a dog shouldn’t be shut into an enclosed boot, but I think people generally are becoming way too precious about dogs and think of them as babies…causing this batshit behaviour to come out!

If i didn't do anything wrong in the first place no don't care what people say about me, I dont need to protest I'm innocent if I was not doing anything wrong

Yes she’s bonkers.
given your boot design obviously I wouldn’t travel a dog in there. I think people are confused by you saying it’s completely separate and therefore unacceptable- for instance our pick up has a separate boot and the dogs travel happily in very posh crates in there. But a Saloon car boot isn’t the same at all!

Fgs, have you never seen a saloon car? The boot's a closed box.

Lack of oxygen.

But I see people drying their dogs in the boot all the time op. At the beach you sometimes even see small children being changed in the boot.

If you were not driving it's a non issue: no-one will take any notice.

You mean you didn't collect your dog in a chauffeur driven limousine with on board canine physical therapist to help him recover from his walk?

She’d hate us, ours travels in a crate in the back of our pick up truck (with the hard top on, obviously!)
A saloon boot like the one in the picture is obviously too small to travel a dog in without removing the parcel shelf (which you’ve said you can’t) but you weren’t going to do that - she’s obviously nuts! Don’t give it another thought