Bad Day at the Dog Park
 

So I finally got my son and his fiance to come to yorkie playdate with me to see all the cute little yorkies we play with for an hour every weekday.
He's sitting out the grass with his girlfriend and they are enjoying watching the dogs play and have fun. When a lady comes walking by with 2 dogs on a leash and one off leash. The dog off leash walks behind my son and pees on him and then pees on his fiance's coach purse! The owner is watching the whole thing as they jump up in disgust and disbelief that this just happened to them. I said to the lady your dog just peed on a $200 purse. She stood there for a minute with her hand over her mouth and then turned around and continued their walk!!

I am soooo stunned! She NEVER said she was sorry for her dogs behavior ( the very least a decent human should do) or anything else.

Had that been my dog I would have been apologizing left and right not to mention offering to pay for the cleaning of her purse!

I just can't believe a dog owner wouldn't take responsibility for their dogs bad behaviour. Obviously THAT dog needed to be ON leash!

Sheesh!

Thanks for letting me vent! :mad:grrrrrrr

How rude! I would of died, had one of mine done that, and fell all over the person apoloizing....some ppl :mad:

Ugh, that's sooo gross. I understand dogs pee on trees, things and sometimes people but for the owner to have that dog off leash and not even apologize, or anything... how rude!

thats so rude Penny pooped one time in petsmart and i was so embarrased i dont let my dog on anyone else's grass even to pee ide be mortified if she ever pee'd on a person

What kind of person would not apoligize when their dog peed on someone?
I'd say she was more ignorant than rude. Some people are just plain
oblivious to life!

WOW!!!!:eek:

So True! That's just disgusting. I would bring the bill for cleaning the purse and give it to her the next time I saw her there. Then maybe she would take her dogs somewhere else so not to run into you again.

So rude but that's why I stick with the girl dogs!! I've been to the dog beach so many times and I see the boys go up and pee on peoples coolers, their beach chairs, their purses. It's disgusting!! When a dog walks close to my towel I always look under to see if they are a boy or girl and if they are a boy I shoo them away!! I know people who have the boy dogs say they are more loving than girls but I will never have a boy dog for all of the reasons above!

A girl dog peed on my shoes once, she came around behind me so I didn't see her coming. So it's not just the boys. It's a training issue and if someone doesn't train their dog, they can't expect it to behave. I would have been mortified if it was my dog.

Is this a dog park?

If this were my dog I would certainly apologize...

however, you also should not bring expensive items into a dog park and place them on the floor because there are way too many new scents and things there and dogs are going to mark, girls and boys alike.

When I go to the dog park I leave everything in the car except for my phone in my pocket for emergencies and a bottle of water for the dogs and I wear something thats not important because I have gotten peed on by other dogs, or jumped on with muddy paws, its not polite but it does happen at the dog park and often its not the owners fault but just dogs being dogs and getting overly excited.

Oh my goodness! She should have been watching her dog more closely, and frankly, I think she should have offered to replace the purse. If it were my dog, I would have. Cleaning wouldn't be enough for me.

I won't let my boys pee on people's mailbox posts, let alone someone's purse.

I have to stick up for the boys -- not all them mark or pee on just anything. My boys don't.

GROSS, I would have apologized for sure

Oh you are right....rude is just rude! Now her son and daughter in law are never going back to the park again!

I agree, it's a matter of training and not gender.

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

I go to the dog park sometimes up to 3x per week and have luckily never been peed on by any dog. And most of the time it seems like more male dogs are present at the park. Jackson only pees/lifts his leg on the trees and never has lifted on a person, furniture, or any indoors anywhere.

I have never been to a dog park, we don't have them up here in the mt.s, but when we head up north on vacation I really would love to check one out.....do most have a place for big dogs? and another spot for lil ones?

I would be mortified also if mine peed on someone....o my...

Shay doesn't lift his leg (YET anyway)...he is 14 months old...hoping it stays that way....whoaaaaaaaaa let me knock on wood, now that I said it out loud..lol

Despite being in a dog park - whether the dogs were leashed or not - her dog did damage to a persons purse. At the minimum she should apologize and offer to pay for the cleaning. Not to mention the back of the gent's pants ...

Now having said that - I don't understand some ppl. Last summer one of the only 2 leashfree parks in Toronto on Lake Ontario where our pups can swim. It has a beach some grass, and trees, benches, water spouts, really really nice park. The east side of the park is for regular people with no dogs, the west is for a leashfree dog park. Well, here we go, I saw two ppl sunning on the beach, they had a cooler, and food on their blanket. I figured that they a) did not have dogs with them and b) were clueless about dog behaviour.

They were set up fairly close to the water and of course the inevitable happened, we the owners mostly play fetch with our dogs, well one dog ran by their blanket and shook water off themselves and all over them. They made a face and moved back a bit. So I went over and said to them, not sure if you are new here or not but this area is for dogs off leash to run and play in the water. Just a few hundred yards east is the people without dogs beach. You can relax there and not to worry about having a dog shake water on you, or btw that food is awfully tempting laying out on your blanket for dogs.

Well I got a dirty look and said we are Not new here, we assert our rate as taxpayers to use whatever public beach we want. I said oh great, have a great day then, just let me call my Magic boy out of the water... hahahahah Idiots

What A B***h Henesey's mate lifted his leg and marked the guy I work with shoes and I was mortified and he isnt even my dog! I said sorry a million times and we bought his new boots. Even to this day like 6 months later when it comes up in conversation I turn red and say im sorry. That lady needs to get pee'd on and then she'd know what it feels like!

Rude
 

I would have DEFINITELY apologized and reprimanded my dog for such a behavior!! I get embarrassed when my dog humps other dogs at the park and I keep him in my lap so he can't do it. I can't understand some people!!!

Man, people can really be ***holes!!:confused: I say bring them before Judge Judy!!!

I know we can't have girl dogs without boy dogs. I'm thankful for the daddy dogs, But I'm with you! I'll never own a boy dog.

This is a soccer field/baseball field with a sidewalk above it. we we down in the field with our dogs ( No one else in the park area) We go every weekday same time cause the park isn't in use. This lady was walking 3 dogs 2 on leash the culprit off leash. My kids had just sat down from going for a walk. Reason why she had her purse. they never even saw the dog coming it all happened so fast.
The purse is fine. We called coach and they told us what to do. the point is, the lady NEVER EVEN OFFERED AN APOLOGY! THATS WHAT HAD ME TORKED.

Okay not exactly what I was picturing... was more picturing her placing her purse in the center of a dog park :cool:

I definitely think she should have offered at least an apology... I would have offered to have the bag cleaned.

we took the purse to the restroom immediately and rinsed it off and my son cleaned his had and his person from dog urine. Then we took the purse immediately to the dry cleaners I knew took coach bags. He said he'd take it and it would be ready on Friday. We said ok left the purse with him and Left. Got in the car and thought wait a minute. If today is Monday and the purse won't be ready til Friday when does he clean it? Thursday? no NOT acceptable. We went back got the purse, took it home called Coach Customer service and they told us what to do. Today no smell no stain. Thank God!!

Today at the park I was SOOOOOO wanting to see that lady walk by today so I could give her a piece of my mind. Especially after hearing from someone else that this same lady turns people in for having dogs off leash! She had the culprit off leash!!! What the heck????
Needless to say she didn't come by. ( We've been meeting here m-f 2-3pm for over 2 years) so people know what time to avoid us.

But when I do...............

I am grateful the purse isn't ruined. But in my mind it was ignorant and rude to at least NOT OFFER an apology... at the very least!

Thanks everyone for your support and passion!

Saw the lady with her 3 dogs (whose one dog peed on my son and his fiance's coach purse on Monday) walk by today. Of course the culprit wasn't on leash like the other two. So as She walked by it was OBVIOUS that she had NO intention of mentioning the incident on Monday. So I said to her,
"You know Pat I would have at least expected an apology from you when your dog peed first all over my son and then his girlfriends purse. " she says "what? he peed on them?" Now I'm thinking WTF she had to have seen what happened thats why she had her hand over her mouth I thought. so I said"YES he peed twice! once on my son and once on his fiance's coach purse." she says "I had no idea" I say back "No idea? are you kidding me? you stood there with your hand over your mouth as you watched!" she says in her defense " But I didn't think he actually peed". I said to her "so why do you think they jumped up in disgust? Surely you can't tell me that by their reaction you didn't know what was going on and yet you didn't even as much offer an apology!" She says "Oh tell them I'm sorry." with that she continued her walk and left.....

All I can say is I polietly said my peace and let her know my disappointment and disgustment. I'm not a confronter and I had 3 other witnesses with me. I never raised my voice but I didn't back down.

It's over and I will not trust that dog when it comes around. Nor will I respect this person.

:rolleyes:
That's definitely a "YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING" moment. I hope the rest of your dog meetup group know to keep an eye on their belongings when this lady is around.

Oh for sure. we all keep our stuff in the car locked up. But my kids were visiting. It took me months to convince them to come see the yorkies play.

Oh well, its all behind us now.

I have girls BUT if I had a marker - he'd be on a leash if I knew he 'may' go on people.....That woman knew her dog was prone to marking just by the reaction you spoke of.

It's simple respect when in public that people take precautions with their pets - even a simple leash in a free roam park vs letting their dogs run anywhere - we all want them to have fun - but not at others expense.

That woman had no manners.

ps - can't blame the dog - he's doing what dogs do....its the human at fault as usual

Now that's not nice , Andy has never peed on anyone or their belongings .