AIBU to be upset after a dog jumped at our baby?

[KellyK2026]

Okay, so myself, DH and baby were at a country park the other week. Baby was getting hungry so we sat ourselves down on a park bench and got some food out. A woman was walking with her family and dog and the dog must’ve smelt the food as it suddenly
comes bounding over and is jumping at baby (who is on DH knee) to get the food. We don’t know this dog and don’t know what it's capable of. I scream at the owner that we have a baby and to get her dog under control. At this point, she’s pretty far away and is taking her time to come over. My DH then kicks the dog to get it off them as it just will not stop. The woman wasn’t particularly apologetic and seemed shocked. Did we overreact?

True, you can’t reason with unreasonable I guess.

I wasn’t sat on a bench screaming either.

The dog jumped up because it could smell food. That’s not dangerously out of control, that’s poor recall. Dangerously out of control is running amok snarling and biting.

Hmmm if only there was some way of attaching the dog to the owner so that everyone is happy and gets their own space.?
Maybe something light weight and portable that you could hang by the front door especially for walks.....?.
Hmmmmm.......

82% of people don't think OP overreacted.

Maybe you should have said that at the start.

On a 'mumsnet' forum. Really non biased!

Not at all. And i do not want to argue. I never said he booted the dog. You told everyone he kicked it.

Maybe you shouldn’t have imagined that it was hurt when that was never said.

He did. He kicked the dog away. The dog was fine. The kick worked temporarily until the owner came over.

OP don't feed the trolls darling.
Owner was a dick.Hope ur OK. The end xxx

Maybe you should be clear if you want peoples genuine opinions on a situation!!

Lol.

No you can't. They will only get more unhinged too so have fun with that 😄

I was clear. Like I said, under the law my DH could’ve booted it or worse. And dog owners need to know that because the next person might just do that. We also could’ve reported it but didn’t. You decided long ago when you got irate that the dog was injured although that was never even implied and people have actually said it would be impossible to kick hard while in a straddling position on a bench. My DH used reasonable force, which is what I’ve said all along.

They must've looked like a pair of nutcases, sitting there whilst a wild beast was attacking their child.

Counter report for animal abuse. Kicking a dog is animal cruelty.

No, shouting ‘get control of your dog’ and ‘we have a baby’ isn’t exactly unhinged given the circumstances. Nor do most people think that.

You don’t know this. You could have caused an internal injury to the dog.

If you really cant understand that there is a big difference between a light push and a heavy kick, i give up.
Yes, i think you were unreasonable.
Yes, i think the dog owner was unreasonable.

It was wagging its damn tail after. It was fine. Chill out 😂

OP remember there are a lot of misanthropes on here who "prefer dogs to humans". They'll be berating you for not offering the dog free dog food and prioritising it over your baby next.

Oh come on! Her husband was holding a baby whilst trying to get off a bench. Do you think he was stamping on the dog or something? I accidently kicked my elderly blind and deaf dog the other day. We don't know how he's still here, he is that old. And he was fine.

Those who choose not to have dogs shouldn't have to be dog savvy because some of those who do have dogs apparently aren't dog savvy either.

I know. Honestly, even if it just came over to take my baby’s food and it wasn’t jumping up and down at an infant, that’s still mad to me that people will defend that. As far as I’m aware, dogs actually enjoy being trained. It clearly wasn’t the first time this dog had jumped up at someone as it was an adult dog.