Rude dog owners

Maybe I'm missing something here ... but Miranadobe made two posts in this thread and I didn't see anything at all sarcastic in either one of them.

Me neither...maybe the

Here's hoping the next vet visit is more acceptable...

could be construed as sarcastic, since emotion doesn't come through the computer screen too well...

Wow!  I guess I need to go back and take "Sarcasm #101" again.
 
Joyce

Huh. I stick with my original advice.

Paula

I stick with Paula's advice as well.

Wow.

I think it's pretty selfish not to look at the scenario in terms of its context. I have rarely been in a quiet vet's office. Sometimes I am sitting next to a really scared dog, a dog that's undersocialized, a sick dog. That's just the dogs. Owners get really stressed out and upset in vet's offices, too. Because their animals are sick and scared. Because paperwork and a scared dog can be a lot to juggle. Because going to the vet can sometimes mean shelling out tons of money or losing your dog forever, or both.

So no, when I am at the vet I have no *expectation* that anyone is going to be paying any attention whatsoever to me and the courtesies I may enjoy.

I have on NUMEROUS occasions taken the chance in a vet's office to smile at someone and ask if they would like some hints on how to mediate or modify a behavior.
 
I often get asked questions, because when I go to the vets, I put my dog on a down stay, and she stays there. Quietly. While I do paperwork, or read the bulletin board. Sometimes I practice a little fun positive obedience while we are there. Often she carries her "party basket" in and visits with staff and clients, passing out candy and dog biscuits.
 
Negative attitudes generate negative feelings and responses, generally.
 
Most of the time, help honestly offered with a smile gets you a lot further.
 
Re: the original post about barking dogs in a vet's office, dogs smell the fear and anxiety smells left by so many others in a vet's office, so I excuse certain behaviors there from other dogs that I might not at other times.
 
My dogs don't seem to have vet related anxiety since we go so often just to visit or socialize.
 
JMO as always.

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A person can be ignorant. Saying a statement is ignorant implies that the person who stated it lacked knowledge. How do you know the people here lack knowledge? Is it because they don't always agree with you?
 

To be honest, yes I would find it rude. I have never had a dog bark at us at the vets. Ther are usually maybe 4 other dogs in there with us at the most so it is not a busy vets office. If my dog was barking at another dog or  person, I would get my dogs attention off that person/dog. I would find it rude if the owner did not try to stop it.

My [sm=2cents.gif], it isn't really rude and I also don't see the sarcasm. 

ORIGINAL: RoyallyYours

You are at a veterinarian.  An animal doctor.  That's like saying it's rude when you walk into a pediatricians office and a child says hi to you. 

Actually, I see it more like going to a pediatrician and someone letting their kid sit there and yell in your face.

gee, I've been peed on and knocked down by other people's dogs at vet offices, had cats screaming in their carriers at ear-splitting level, and had my dog attacked by a tiny little terrier. Being barked at is so trivial in comparison.

Actually, I see it more like going to a pediatrician and someone letting their kid sit there and yell in your face.

I agree.

If i was sitting in a vets office,or anywhere and someone sat down next to me and let their dog bark at me without reprimanding it,i would find that very rude.I wouldnt let my dogs do that to someone.I cant say i remember a time where i have heard a dog bark ad nauseum at the vets office,they are usually too anxious to make a peep.or maybe the owners with barkers are considerate enough to stay outside with them until it's their turn..dunno but it's never been a problem at any of the vets i've been to.

I wonder how any of the people here who say the OP is over reacting,would react if i sat down beside them with my bullmastiffs and let them bark in their faces, all the time ignoring my dogs and the person they were yapping at?? If my dogs were to do that,and i couldnt stop them i would be very embarrased and i would walk out.

ORIGINAL:
I wonder how any of the people here who say the OP is over reacting,would react if i sat down beside them with my bullmastiffs and let them bark in their faces, all the time ignoring my dogs and the person they were yapping at?? If my dogs were to do that,and i couldnt stop them i would be very embarrased and i would walk out.

Let's not make this bigger than it is. She said she was at the vets doing some business and a cairn terrier barked. She took it to mean that it was barking at her, and she took the owner's hesitation to correct the bark as some personal insult. This is by  no means anything like sitting next to a bull mastiff that is barking in your face. So let's keep things in proportion.

I still say; given the scenario she described that I wouldn't even sweat it. A dog barking at a vet is like a kid screaming at the pediatrician. It is kind of what I would expect. My dogs don't bark at the vets because they like their vet's and they're not a barky breed. So what?

So I still stick with my original advice to lighten up, there are considerably worse things in the world to get worked up about than some cairn terrier barking at the vet's office. Maybe it's my old age showing, but sorry; this doesn't even rate.

Paula

I agree with Paula.  And didn't the OP say that the owner was an "old man"?  Perhaps dealing with the dog was more than he could deal with at that point?