AITAH? I went to stop at a stop sign. As I’m slowing down, I noticed that a dog was relieving himself in the park next to the stop sign. The owner was standing there with the dog. As I come to a stop, the dog runs in front of my car and I nearly hit it. I rolled down my window and told the owner he needs to put a leash on his dog and he proceeded to show me a leash that he was wearing around his neck like a piece of jewelry.
I told him that the lease should be on the dog not around the owner’s neck. He told me that I don’t need to tell him what to do with his dog. I said that that’s fine. The next time I’ll just run your dog over. Am I the asshole?
ETA- The dog was not in a dog park. It was a park for humans in our subdivision. We do have leash laws.
Nta, he’s just dumb and a bit weird
NTA – people get defensive when they’re called out on their ridiculous behaviour. I’ve had that too when there’s been dogs off leash in our on-leash park….people tend to let things slide until you get the dog who is a maniac and approaches all dogs, leashed or not, and owner can’t control. I’ll say ‘this is not an off-leash park, you need to control your dog’ and they’ll hold up their leash….that is NOT attached to their dog, lol.
Right, so is the problem you don’t know how to USE it or…..?
So frustrating.
Had this the other day, some guys rat dog came charging out at a parking lot barking at me. Shouted at the guy “hey man can you get your dog” and got a load of abuse in return.
NTA. It honestly shouldn’t be legal for a dog to be off leash in public unless its a service dog.
NTA for everything except saying you’ll run the dog over. I get the point, but threatenig to kill a dog to make a point is childish.
NTA. Could you have maybe worded it better? Sure. But the owner was a jerk in their first response, so they get little sympathy for your mildly rude reply.
NTA. The so called owner is a poor one. That’s like riding a motorbike saying you are safe while instead of being on your head, the helmet is strapped directly onto the vehicle. The presence of a safety device is useless if that safety device isn’t actually being used properly.
Was you able to catch the scenario on dash cam. Even if not it might be worth reporting on the non emergency number that someone is walking their dog off a leash (despite showing they have one) and said dog almost got hit running across the road to said owner. That way if an accident does happen than there is some proof of the owners negligence
I don’t have a dash-cam, but am humbly reminded yet again that I need to get one. I’ve seen this owner in my neighborhood before but never noticed he doesn’t use a leash. Thank you for the advice I will consider it if there is a next
time.
Fun little story:
My dad just lost EVERYTHING because his dog wasn’t on a leash.
It got out of his house and went after someone else’s dog. The other person dog was fine. The lady took it to the vet and had it checked out and my dad paid for the vet bill.
The lady smacked her hand off the ground when she was picking her dog up to keep it away from my dad’s dog.
She sued my dad for medical damages, mental pain, blah blah blah. My dad didn’t even read the court paperwork.
1.5 years later without him showing up to a hearing, the lady was just granted $300k usd in damages.
My dad called my siblings and I and informed us about it AFTER the police showed up and took everything of value from his house, and at 75 years old he has his house and an electric moped to his name, because he chose to not leash train his dog or listen when he was told it should have a kennel.
NTA. If I hit a dog with a car, I’d be traumatized, so I’d probably snap at the owner too. I hate irresponsible owners who let their dogs do stuff like this. These are also the same owners who let their off leash dog run up to my leashed dog, even though there’s a leash law.
Since they were wearing it, you should’ve yelled at the dog to keep their damn human on a leash.
NTA – I hate this, it’s so irresponsible. Dogs should be on leashes unless they are in a fenced-in and secure area. A dog on my street was hit by a car because the owner couldn’t be bothered. Dog was fine, but even now owner refuses to leash. Just awful.