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My friend whacked my dog

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CoffeeColouredCloud · 25/02/2009 13:20

I invited my friend around this morning and she came wearing a woolen type coat. Anyway I have a staffordshire bull terrier dog who gets very excited when she sees new people and she kept jumping at my friend. I told her to get down but she was just excited. Then my friend said "Can you get her, she's ripping my coat".

She wasn't ripping her coat, she had just pulled it in a few places. Anyway I grabbed her and my friend sat down with a cup of coffee. We were just chatting at my dog suddenly got excited again and ran toward the sofa. I saw my friend roll her eyes so I called the dog back. She ignored me and jumped up on my friend and tried to sit on her knee. This spilt some coffee on the sofa and on her jeans. I shouted at the dog and she muttered "for fucks sake" so as the dog started toward me my friend bent down to put the cup on the floor and the dog turned back thinking she was playing and dived on her. At the point she just whacked her across the face the dog wasn't bothered but I still thought it was totally out of order so I said "there was no need to hit her" so she said "Look at my fucking coat, its all pulled, it's my only coat and its ruined". There was a few pulls on it but nothing noticable.

AIBU for being annoyed that she hit my dog when she was only excited? if she was biting etc I could understand but she was just trying to be friendly and my friend is SUPPOSED to be a dog lover

OP posts:
tinseltot · 26/02/2009 16:58

Sorry but you are being unreasonable. If you can't control your dog then you should shut it away when you have visitors. Not everyone is comfortable with being harrassed/mauled even if the animal in question is only being playful.

hifi · 26/02/2009 17:14

if a dog had done all that to me i would have left. yabvvu. you should have removed it ar the first instance.i also hate dags all over me as they leave a disgusting smell that i can smell for days yuk!

salsmum · 26/02/2009 17:40

I used to have 2 Staffys [one died of old age] so I now have 1. She is well behaved and she has a crate to go into if I don't get a dog ok visitor. like most Staffs she is very friendly and can get excited when visitors arrive BUT she does NOT jump up and does NOT get up on furniture....some staffs can weigh 4 stone and that is alot of lap dog Just like if I went to a friends house I would'nt expect their kids to continuelly [sp] jump all over me in a disrespectful manner [clawing at my skin/clothes]I would be quite annoyed if a dog did it. Although I would'nt slap a friends dog I would ask them if they could put the dog away. So YRBU but that that anger you feel now and TRAIN YOUR DOG!.

donnie · 26/02/2009 17:45

I would have done the same as your friend and demanded cash for a new coat. You (OP) are clearly a moron.

Qally · 27/02/2009 01:23

OP - is this you?

lulalullabye · 27/02/2009 01:37

Oh for dogs sake

cannydoit · 27/02/2009 02:46

ur friend was neing a bit of a bitch sice i asume she knew u had a dog before u got there, but i have to say that if i was round a friends house and she wasnt doing much to stop her animal from jumpong all over me i would be pissed off to ,think u should have done more to stop the dog. sorry.

Mungarra · 27/02/2009 09:45

YABU.

You have a dog you can't control. You should have put him in another room or outside. You knew it was bothering your friend.

You should also offer to pay for your friend's coat to be repaired. Your dog damaged her coat and you think she's being unreasonable!

She has a right to defend herself against the dog and I and, if I were her, I wouldn't visit again.

We were walking on our local Common and a big dog came and started sniffing around my 6 month baby in her pushchair. The owner was about 100m away. My DH kicked the dog away. The owner yelled at him for kicking the dog and DH yelled that the dog should be on a lead if it hassles babies.

Your dog sounds like a nuisance.

Sheeta · 27/02/2009 09:55

You are both being totally unreasonable - her for smacking your dog, and you for not controlling your dog.

SheSellsSeashellsByTheSeashore · 27/02/2009 10:14

I'd have been tempted to slap the op not the dog. It's not the dogs fault it hasn't been taught how to behave in a reasonable mannor.

I have a little terrier type dog, who wouldn't be able to cause much damage by jumping on people. But thats not the point. she still doesn't do it. She was taught from being a puppy that its not accpetable behavior, by being removed from the situation when she got over excited.

Op I am guessing you don't have mny friends?

mumeeee · 28/02/2009 21:04

YABU. Your dog pulled her caot and junmped all over her. You need to teach you dog not to do this.

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