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Friendly dogs are not always welcome dogs.

This one comes with mud and stolen-food ambitions.

And when an unleashed shepherd keeps jumping, the owner laughs it off.

OP finally stops being polite.

See why “she’s friendly” gets an unexpected answer.

AITA for saying “I’m not” when a dog owner said their dog was friendly?

I wanna start this off by saying I don’t like dogs.

I don’t hate dogs at all, don’t get me wrong, I think they’re very cute and I can see why some people like them, but I’m just personally not a fan.

I’m much more of a cat person.

This dog was a little too friendly.

Earlier this morning, I was walking through a park when this unleashed German Shepherd (I think) came running at me and tried jumping on me.

Naturally, I jumped back and screamed.

I kept trying to politely push the dog away, backing away, all that, but it was very intent on getting the food I was eating.

The owner finally approached, and I was relieved, until he started laughing and encouraging the dog to play with me, saying it was fine because “she’s friendly, she just wants to play!”

It took him getting upset for the guy to recall his dog.

I tried explaining that I didn’t want to play, but the guy just kept emphasizing that the dog was friendly until I snapped and said, “Well, I’m not, so get your dog away from me.”

The guy was all huffy and puffy for a while, acting shocked that someone could possibly not want a muddy dog jumping all over them and ruining their favorite shirt.

Finally, the guy called the dog back, and I went along with my day.

About an hour ago, I told my mom about the whole ordeal, and she said I was unnecessarily rude and could have just walked away, which is something I have a hard time doing because I tend to freeze when my fight or flight is triggered.

AITA?

Yikes! Luckily, not every dog owner is like this guy.

Let’s see what the folks over at Reddit think about what happened.

This person feels like that with other humans sometimes.

Here’s a dog lover’s take on it.

It must’ve been scary because those are big dogs!

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According to this reader, the dog owner makes others look bad.

The dog kept jumping on OP while the owner brushed off every objection by insisting she was friendly.

OP finally snapped, told him to get the dog away, and later got criticized for being too rude.

“Friendly” still does not mean “free to climb on strangers.”