Why are people so inconsiderate?!

[coticsouledout]

I'm sat in the back garden with doggo giving her a massage and enjoying the sun. She can see the road from where we are but it is fenced off and there is a front garden. A neighbour who is passing by starts talking to me from the gate. She starts barking and I shake my head, drop eye contact and try to indicate I can't hear and please be on your way.
Two other neighbours appear and the three of them start chatting right outside my front gate. Dog is barking and clearly wants them to leave. It's a public road but if they'd just walk a couple of yards up the street, all would be fine.
I go in and get her her treat dispenser, they carry on chatting completely oblivious (allegedly - not sure how they missed my dirty looks).
The couple move on and the male neighbour comes in to my front garden, right up to the fence, dog jumps up barking, he asks me a question, I tell him my dog is stressed and I need to look after her.
Happily he goes away but ffs! Are people oblivious, do they just not give a shit, obtuse? Or is it that I have every right to stand wherever I like on a public road type mentality?
The couple in question don't have their own dog but sometimes walk their adult kids' dogs. I call them the bulldozers because they just walk. Don't stop for the dogs to sniff, are totally unaware what is around them. The other day we were walking up a lane and they were behind and i was keeping my dog moving. A woman with two reactive terriers was coming towards us. I took my dog down a side lane a little to let her pass. There was loads of room, it is a wide lane. They bulldozed right into her causing all three dogs to react. Why? Why be so fucking inconsiderate?
I'm moving and can't fucking wait!

What a ray of sunshine you are!!!

I think the best thing you can do is move to the middle of nowhere, then no neighbours can disturb you or your dog.
I do hope your new house has high fences and that none of your neighbours have the audacity to stand on the street talking.
I have two dogs by the way, so don't start with the agro about not knowing what it's like!

God, this!!!!

Also, if you suffer from stress, I can't imagine what this thread is doing to you. Calm down for your own sake

Other people might equally think that you are being inconsiderate by letting your dog keep on barking instead of trying to get it to STFU.

@coticsouledout

I’ve read the whole thread. You’ve been insulting and rude in every single reply.
I have one question: how do you remain upright with that massive chip on your shoulder?

You know what @coticsouledout I can accept that I may have been a little abrasive in my first post because I thought your complaint was absurd but my last was an attempt at being helpful.

Making up that I called you “childish” (along with other claims related to other posters) doesn’t help support your insistence that you’re the reasonable person in this tale.

I think you really need to reflect. You’re obviously frustrated and irritated but this sits with you.

Please be on your way

That's brilliant

It’s like having anxiety and expecting the outside world to be aware and be nice and calm for you. Unreasonable and unrealistic. Don’t take the dog out the front if they’re distressed by regular life.

If it was my dog I’d have a gate/fence tall enough that they wouldn’t see passers by if they are clearly reactive to strangers. You can’t stop people chatting in public areas.

If people have very reactive/nervous dogs, the onus is on them to avoid other dogs.

If I had to duck down a side street every time I saw a nervous/reactive dog, every walk would take me hours.

My dogs woof when someone walks past our back garden - they get brought in immediately.

OP and her precious puffy.



OP and her precious puffy.

This is brilliant. And quite possibly the solution to all op's woes.

😂

The entitlement. You don't own the street.

It's possible you are passing your stress to the dog. You seem a little precious.

Yabu, especially for importing a dog when there are thousands in rescues in the UK.

The man shouldn't have come in your garden though, but I guess it depends on what he wanted to tell you.

One quick question, op;

What chips would you recommend to go with a steak?

This thread makes fantastic Friday evening entertainment. Reinforces a couple of long held stereotypes about dog owners. We laughed so hard we woke the baby

Why on earth didn't you just take the dog inside?

I have a dog. There is a pavement outside my garden. If people standing chatting was making my dog behave like an annoying barking lunatic I'd take her inside.

Only my dog doesn't bark incessantly for no reason because she's been properly trained

Blimey, what a wonderful neighbour you must be!

You sound like a headcase. 😳

Yanbu. This pisses me the fuck off.

My dog is territorial and barks if people come too close to the garden. He can get quite distressed, but also tunnel vision and won't listen until the threat passes by. We are working on this but why WHY would you stand and have a chat where you are obviously distressing a dog? He's loud so they do know they are distressing him.

Makes me wish I was a sniper sometimes, along with motorbikes and those stupid exhausts that sound broken.

Blimey, what a way to go through life.