Parking when there are dogs around

[TheQuirkyMaker]

I was in our local park yesterday, talking to another dog owner, when an SUV swept in right beside us, halted, and reversed into a parking space. As it reversed, I slapped it on the roof. The driver jumped out, angry, and I think was ready to give me a slap. I said the car park was empty (it was, it serves about 200 cars) and he had no need to park next to us and potentially hit a dog. He said he was parking near the skate park for his children, and our dogs should be on a lead (they weren't). They are elderly, obedient little dogs, and don't need to be on a leash but they are little and could be hit by a car.
I told him to "F--- Off" and felt okay at the time but couldn't sleep last night for worrying who was in the right.
Was I the unreasonable one?

But as others have indicated, dogs (little or otherwise) should NOT be "wandering around" a car park. Put your dog on a lead and control it for its safety, FFS.

Ok based on your last response ‘I just don’t know if I was right or wrong’

Overwhelming response, including mine ‘you were wrong’

To be near the skate park.

Why the fuck would you hit his car?

I wonder what other adjectives for this man's driving will be used as the thread goes on. At first he was 'sweeping' in but when that didn't work he was 'screeching' in. I predict him flying round the corner on two wheels soon!

I'm a dog lover
Just about to put my well behaved dog in the car to go to the park
He'll stay on the lead until we're away from the car park
Because I won't put him in danger
Because I'm a dog lover

YBVU you are allowed to park anywhere that's legal and not where you want them to park. Also your dogs should've been on a lead. I'd be fuming if you slapped my car too!!

It amazes me someone can be so unreasonable and so self centred that they actually believe they were in the right.

They parked in an empty park. You’re the one who started the aggression and if your dog gets run over because it’s off lead in a car park, then that is solely due to you being a terrible dog owner.

You are so unreasonable.

Another antagonistic and defensive dog owner who has lost all perspective and thinks the world should revolve around your animal. You’ve just verbally attacked someone for parking their car in a car park. YABU.

Run over a small dog just to prove he doesn’t like them

But he didn’t? Like most SUVs he probably had rear parking cameras and sensors. I can reverse into a spot quickly and confident I’m not going to hit anything as all the tech (and my own eyes) tell me it’s safe to do so.

If he was really going to hit the dogs then this suggests they weren’t well behaved and under control but running around a very dangerous car park?

YABVVU. I'm fed up with people who think their dogs take priority over everyone and everything else.
Keep your dog on a lead in a car park if you don't want them to be hit by a car.

Also dogs shouldn't be near children's play areas.
And yes I have a dog, DH's job involves dogs and he thinks the same.

This can’t be real

YABVU i would have been fuming if someone slapped my car while i was parking over this

You sound absolutely unhinged, OP 😂

I do always find it fascinating that people choose to park right next to other cars in near empty car parks.
But you are being unreasonable to have your dogs loose in the car park however old or well behaved they are.

It is genuine. I just don't know if I was right or wrong

You were wrong. And I say that as a dog owner.

HTH.

I just don't know if I was right or wrong.

You’ve already decided you’re right.

You are in the wrong. He can park where the fuck he likes. Maybe keep your dogs away from the car park.

Why have you actually started this thread? Lots of people telling you you’re wrong but you’re still coming back with I don’t know if I was right or wrong. He didn’t hit your dog but you hit his car.

My little collie is dying of old age, and the park we were in was the one we used to go to 12 years ago. Things have changed, she doesn't jump about and need restraining because she is excited. We are both elderly, creaky joints, maybe I was just angry at the world.

Was your dog in the car park?

Clearly the cars already parked there were there because it was closest to where they needed to be. So the extra car followed suit and also parked closest to where they needed to be. A competent driver can slot in between other cars.

YABU for first having your dog off the lead in a space where they will encounter traffic and other people and even more so for your behaviour.

A dog lover who loves their dog so much that they don't put it on a lead in a car park?!

I have 3 dogs and am a MASSIVE dog lover (more so than people most of the time) and I would never let any of my dogs off lead near cars, no matter how well behaved they are. Because I don't want them to get run over.

perhaps he was angry about dog shit in the park (I always clean it up) and wanted to make his feelings plain

No OP, he wasn't angry about the dog shit in the park when he hadn't even got out of his car yet. He was angry about you "slapping" his car when he was driving.

WTAF?! Are you drunk?

The condition of your dog doesn’t really matter. You have got this spectacularly wrong. I think taking the stance that you’re angry at the world, is a better one.

If she was on a lead she would have been right next to you.
It's that simple
I'm not saying she's going to run anywhere. I'm saying she needs to be stood right next to you in a car park because you never know if there'll be an idiot driver