I’m home for a few days for Christmas and was out for a walk with my DM. We were walking our dog in the local village and a bulldog type dog burst its way out of a loose gate and tried to attack our dog. I grabbed our dog and got her to the car, which luckily we’d parked literally 20 feet away.
Meanwhile the dog continued to attempt to attack my DM who was attempting to prevent it from running onto the busy main road. I then ran back over to help by which point the owner appeared. He couldn’t get hold of the dog which continued to jump up growling at my DM. He was on a phone call which was seemingly more important than stopping his dog from behaving aggressively.
My DM stayed calm but asked him to
get his dog as she was starting to get frightened. The owner then replied ‘if you’re frightened, don’t come here’. Bearing in mind we were on a public footpath in our own village, I think this is a bit much. I told the owner that it was a perfectly reasonable reaction to be scared of a growling dog repeatedly jumping up at you in a public place. In the end, we walked away because you cannot reason with unreasonable people.
He acted like we were being unreasonable. My DM thinks I ought to let it go but I’m wondering if it is worth a call to either the council or the non emergency police. I’m really worried that this might happen again and potentially to a child.