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I recently had a rather unpleasant experience in the park, and I have not been able to find an answer online: what is the correct etiquette for getting someone else’s dog to leave you alone? My children and I were having a picnic in a large country park. It’s full of cyclists, walkers, picnickers and people walking their dogs, all peacefully coexisting. Most people’s dogs come over to the picnic, and we shoo them away as their owners are shouting for them to come back, or people put their dogs on leads when they see people with picnics. However, one guy got really annoyed when my daughter and I said “shoo!” to his dog and flapped our hands in its general direction (not really anywhere near it, maybe 50cm to a metre away). It was literally getting its nose into our lunch and trying to eat our quiche. He loudly told me not to shoo his dog, while telling his dog it was alright, and that “some people just don’t like animals”. It was quite an uncomfortable situation, as he was a) a lot larger than me and b) scary for my kids. I did my best not to escalate things, but after he told me that some people just don’t like animals, I got a bit annoyed and said that animals are fine, he should just control his dog, when I probably should have left it alone. What should I have done in that situation? I didn’t touch his dog to move it, what did he expect me to do? I thought we were quite polite, and didn’t think “shoo” was a problem… Any dog owners here have any insight into the correct way to politely (for its owner) get a dog to go away?
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May 8, 2022 13:45
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