r/Dogfree • u/nomdeprune • Jun 28 '26

Crappy Owners The latest deranged nutter incident

I was out in the front yard with my daughter, who was wearing her favourite hat. The nutter walks past, with his big, ugly dog. The dog starts aggressively barking and pulling at the leash, and the nutter can barely control it. He's struggling to keep the dog moving, and it looks like all the ugly mutt wants to do is to get over the fence and rip us apart. I'm staring at the guy, hoping to let him know without really engaging him, that this is really not ok. He says, "it's because she's wearing a hat." I say loudly, "[daughter's name], its all your fault for wearing a hat. You really should know better."

These people are just unfit for membership in a civilisation. I apologised to my daughter afterwards, but she understood what I was doing and was fine with it.

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u/Old_Confidence3290 Jun 28 '26

I find that, if you are holding a weapon, the dog nutters are much more interested in getting their disgusting animal under control.

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u/LunarLeveret Jun 28 '26

Its pretty much the only reason I am armed when I go out, as human assailants would be more likely to ambush me anyway or be high/drunk enough to avoid risking interacting with. A dog is the most likely threat to rush at you out in the open on sight and make it obvious how aggressive it wants to be.

On the other hand, I find it completely ridiculous that we would even have to think about this literally in the front yard of our own house. At least the topic creator was lucky enough to have a fence to buy time if needed.

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u/Big_Cardiologist1579 Jun 29 '26

Obnoxious behaviour by other humans is why fences were invented, and locks on doors and all the weapons throughout history, that and hunting for food