The owner kind of makes a weak attempt to seem like they’re trying, but if I weren’t there, they wouldn’t intervene at all. I’m asking because I want to make sure that I don’t over react next time.
just let it go. it’s not a big deal. dog’s gonna dog.
Keep your dog away from their dog.
Are you suggesting that I leave the dog park because their dog is not neutered and they wont control their dog’s behavior?
If your dog isn’t spayed a dog park IS a pretty sketchy place for her to be
Either that or talk to other owners at the park about collectively shunning the problematic owner. It sounds harsh but I’ve seen this work and it’s preferable to giving up a beloved community hangout just because of one asshole.
My goodness me.
“Talk to all the other people at the park and turn them against one other person in order to avoid an awkward conversation with said person”.
If someone at the park told me to avoid some other person because their dog is a humper I world tell them to grow up.
You can talk to them, which it seems like you tried and it didn’t convince them to do something, or you can leave. Are there other viable options?
He could grow some balls and remove the other dog from his dog and then explain to the other dog’s owner why he’s an asshole and needs to leave
If at least one of them is fixed, at worst it’s just a show of dominance. The bigger concern is for the dog humping. Those shows of dominance can lead to aggressive reactions from some dogs. If your dog isn’t the type to react aggressively, it’s not a big problem outside of any social awkwardness. The problem would be if that dog humped another that really didn’t want it. Then there could be a fight. So it’s in the owners best interest to discourage that behavior lest they hump the wrong dog.
All that said, even if your dog isn’t the type to react and you just don’t want another dog humping your dog, you should be fine taking some action. Either avoid the other dog or if that’s not possible keep between your dog and the humper. Even physically holding the other dog away from yours should be fine. If the other owner takes offense to this, you can explain that you don’t want their dog humping yours. At this point, they’ll either concede and try to do better, remove their dog from the situation, or devolve into full Karen. Up to you how to handle that.
Put yourself between it and your dog. Mounting is an act to show dominance. Be the more dominant dog.
Happens occasionally when I’m walking my dog.
My dog will let the other one know when she’s had enough nonsense.
IMHO find a way to get over it and get over it.
