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God Almighty !

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Sundancerintherain · 21/12/2021 16:00

.......some people are just ignorant.
Ddog is a Lab, 6 years old and in the last year has developed a very sensitive stomach. After much trial and error he is now on a prescription diet ( very expensive but worth it, a large lab with almost constant diarrhoea is not pleasant).
So this prescription food , measured out, under vets supervision we can start to add in tiny amounts of lean protein and veg from next week , but NOTHING else.
I have just been out walking him when another dog walker I vaguely know stops to say hi , then goes to give my ddog a treat. I say, no sorry, explain why and smile. He is very unhappy with this and tries to throw the treat to my dog. WTF !
I kept my temper , said no more forcefully and pulled my dog back. He then tells I'm mean, my poor dog, its Christmas.
So I told him that he was welcome to feed my dog anything he wants when he will come and clean up.the results and pay the vets bill.
He backed off at that point, but my god, who thinks that they have a god given right to feed another person's pet ? Angry

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wtfisthatspiderdoing · 21/12/2021 16:30

Some people are idiots and can't get their head around that their good intention is actually really not a good thing.

Stellaris22 · 21/12/2021 16:59

I hate people who do this.

There used to be a man who would come to the dog park and start opening and handing out treats to all the dogs without asking. Not only was it bad because the dogs could be on a special diet but it also encourages them to run over to strangers.

Thatldo · 21/12/2021 18:09

I hate people who always give treats to any dog they come across.I find it particularly annoying when you have a puppy.fortunately my dogs are far more interested in a tennisball then some horrid,sugar coated crap dog bisquits.I fully understand your anger,I would have been livid.hope your Lab is better soon.

Rosieparkerss · 21/12/2021 18:11

I threw a stick for a dog who ran up to me with a stick, the owner laid in to me so much that I ended up in tears. I was ignorant and didn’t realise that I shouldn’t have done it, the dog had recently had surgery.

Not excusing the man, especially after you explained but I think some people are very ignorant.

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Sundancerintherain · 21/12/2021 19:02

@Thatldo thank you, he is currently snoozing at my feet .
Also, as a PP said I dont want DDog thinking that he can approach a stranger to get dmfood.
DH has been on the local FB dog walkers group and it seems that I'm not the only person he has done this to, looks like he has been giving treats through a fence to another dog, that's a whole another level of batshittedness.

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Somepup100 · 21/12/2021 19:27

I think a simple 'no thank you' would have done and just repeat it if he still thinks the dog would like it. He wasn't trying to hurt your dog, was just being friendly. You were there so no harm was done other than you being rude to someone who was trying to be friendly. That'll teach him.

Witchinthedales · 21/12/2021 19:40

@Somepup100

I think a simple 'no thank you' would have done and just repeat it if he still thinks the dog would like it. He wasn't trying to hurt your dog, was just being friendly. You were there so no harm was done other than you being rude to someone who was trying to be friendly. That'll teach him.
She tried this. He wouldn't listen.
Suzi888 · 21/12/2021 19:45

This happens with my IBS suffering lab too. I’m very blunt now, I have to be. An older chap tried to give him a cheese burger once and when I said no, he threw it at him and said “oh it won’t hurt him”. Well yes, it will actually. Get used of it…. 😞

Thatldo · 21/12/2021 19:46

@Somepup100.it really isnt being friendly to try to feed other peoples dog bisquits.I am sure, OP's lab was not the first dog,this stranger was trying to feed.they never take NO for an answer.I am sure almost every dogwalker has come across these pests.they are a nuissance and really being polite to these pests is not required.they need a firm ffs,leave my dog alone.

Quickchangeartiste · 21/12/2021 19:54

God I hate this too. 2 labs, one who needs hydrolysed food and reacts extremely badly to anything else, and despite me saying no, the same people we meet try to feed him.

And don’t get me started on the strange people who wander round the park with snacks the size of dinner plates to entice dogs over.

Not sure why anyone would think a polite no should be ignored. Such ignorance,

pigsDOfly · 21/12/2021 20:22

@Somepup100

I think a simple 'no thank you' would have done and just repeat it if he still thinks the dog would like it. He wasn't trying to hurt your dog, was just being friendly. You were there so no harm was done other than you being rude to someone who was trying to be friendly. That'll teach him.
As pp said, OP had tried a simple 'no thank you' and it didn't work. Some people just won't be told.

My daughter's husband, I'll call him John, is like that.

We were all at my other daughter's house a number of years ago for Christmas lunch - we both had our dogs with us - when John started throwing raisins to his dog.

My dog was a puppy at the time and obviously would snaffle anything.

I asked him to stop because, as I said to him, raisins can kill dogs and I was scared that if he dropped one, my dog would pick it up and it might harm her.

Yes, he was ignorant of the danger, he'd probably never heard that raisins can kill dogs - clearly they'd done his dog no harm - but because he thinks he knows everything about everything he dismissed what I was saying and just went on throwing the raisins.

I got a bit panicky tbh and the more panicky I got the funnier he thought it was and just went on ignoring me, throwing the raisins and laughing at my reaction.

He did stop eventually, but for weeks afterwards every time he saw me he would bring it up and laugh at how panicky I'd been.

Yes, John is a dick, but there are a lot of them about. Some people just won't be told by a simple no thank you and you have to get a bit more forceful with them; clearly the man in the park was one of that type.

whatisthisinhere · 21/12/2021 20:43

Oh I,hate this! I've always trained my doge to only take food on my day so. What a rude and ignorant man

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Sundancerintherain · 21/12/2021 20:51

@Somepup100 if you would have taken the trouble to read my first post fully you would have seen that I had said no and explained to him fully why not. With a smile.
You and ignorant man seem to have a lot in common ........

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muddyford · 25/12/2021 12:49

There was a moronic woman who used to carry a Tupperware of dog treats and got extremely nasty when I told her I didn't want my dogs fed by random strangers. They weren't on special diets but I didn't know what she was giving out. FFS.

Didiplanthis · 28/12/2021 23:09

Urgh... its like the people who try and feed my laminitic pony despite the signs on the fence. One woman took such offense she started coming at night to feed him carrots as I was so 'mean'...ffs...

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