What’s wrong with some owners??

I had a weird conflict with another dog owner yesterday in the park. Me and my dog ran into her and her dog and the dogs seemed to like each other enough to play, so the woman was like, "Let her off leash". I explained that I've only had my dog for 6 weeks (she's a two-year-old rescue) and we're still working on recall, so I don't really let her off leash yet that much. But then my dog started getting the zoomies and the leash was hurting me, so I was like ok. And then this woman started giving me unsolicited advice, "see, you need to let her off leash, she's not gonna run away, look, she's coming back, she needs to run", so after she said that about 15 times I told her I appreciate it but I don't need the lecture. And then my dog ran a little further away, but she was still making circles so it was fine, however I wanted to call her back to train recall (I would have released her back to play, I feel like this is literally how you train recall??). And the woman was like, "Why are you calling her back? You can't even let her run for a bit, she's just running", at which point I'd had enough and I said we were gonna go, called my dog back (and she listened! yay), and then the woman said, "Poor dog." And I saw red and told her to f*ck off. Which she then said to me too and kept muttering something about poor dogs not being able to run around.

I get that she was just some ignorant woman who clearly thinks that she knows everything about every dog, but like wtf?? This comment really hurt, because I'm constantly thinking if I'm doing right by my dog and I just want to be the best owner possible. Did I do anything wrong (except for that admittedly inelegant solution of telling her to go f*ck herself)? I feel like I communicated very clearly what our situation was. So what the hell is wrong with people like that??

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