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[Goldensunnydays81]

Hello
Just wondered if some of you lovely dog people would see this as an ok thing to do or what would you have done in this situation?

This morning when dh was outside our front door a Rottweiler type dog came past him and went half way up our stairs into our house, he grabbed the dog by its collar at the same time as calling it to get out, the owner who was across the street in the launderette went crazy at him saying that be had no right to man-handle her dog.

Then a bit of a shouting match followed with her just going on that he had no right to touch her dog and dh saying that her dog has no right to come in our house esp as we had a toddler in there!
Was that an ok thing to do? Dh isn't from this country but a country where lots of dogs have rabies so although it doesn't happen here I didn't know i this clouded his judgement a bit!

If my dog ran into someone's house, I'd be bloody mortified and apologetic, not shouting at them for ejecting her!

The dog should have been on lead in a residential area. Your DH was right to take the dog out, stupid woman.

That's what he said it should have been on a lead or her supervising it! She just kept going on about him having no right to touch her dog!
He just took the dog by its collar and took it out! There was no noise from the dog!

Of course you'd grab a dog's collar if it ran in your house!

I've had a neighbour's dog run into mine and my previous dog once ran in a neighbour's house and ate her dog's dinner

When it was a dog in my house, although it only ran in to say hello, I caught it to help my neighbour catch her, why would you not?...when it was mine, I was absolutely mortified and spent about a fortnight apologizing.

She sounds like a completely unreasonable loon. She should have been contrite.

She was breaking the law in three different ways:

1. By not having her dog under control in a public place (ie outside the launderette

2. Secondly not having her dog under control "in a private place where the dog isn?t allowed to be (eg a neighbour?s house or garden without permission)"

3. For not having her dog on lead on a public highway. "Under Section 27 of the Road Traffic Act 1988, it is an offence for any person to cause or permit a dog to be on a designated road without the dog being held on a lead".

The first two instances refer to the control of dogs and specifically relate to a dog being 'dangerously out of control'. A dog can be considered dangerously out of control "if it behaves in a way that makes a person worried that it might injure them". This is obviously widely open to interpretation, but I'd say a large, unaccompanied dog entering your home without permission and heading up the stairs is something that would worry most people.

The owner doesn't have a leg to stand on and was completely out of order.

Your dh was most definitely not being unreasonable. I'd have been absolutely mortified and apologetic it I'd allowed my dog to do that.

Your DH WNBU at all.

Thank you everyone! Good to know he wasn't being unreasonable!! He also told me that she had told him to F off back his own country so I guess she just wasn't a very nice person!

Unfortunately, you have run across a Complete Loon. Society as a whole is afflicted with a fair number of them, and some of them own dogs. They are easily spotted by their belief that everything they do is always right regardless of things like the actual law. This particular specimen seems to be particularly vile and racist, and in possession of a large and powerful animal. I hope the poor dog doesn't end up PTS or hit by a car because this idiot can't be arsed to put it on a lead.

she could be reported to the police for that comment alone! What a horrible person.

Well said, LesserSpottedNeckSnake.