I have a big dog -often people become quite - well medium sized technically scared of her just by the way she looks.
she is however not reactive and very friendly !
she is always 100 percent on lead unless is in an designated enclosed dog area.
on our way to the park yesterday, we crossed a road and had to walk down the pavement where there is a few shops and a coffee shop. it wasn’t a wide pavement, I also had 2 kids with me. My dog loves other dogs but I do understand why many around here don’t like their dog interacting with mine so I always ensure she only goes over ( on lead ) if the owner says it’s ok.
as we were walking past the coffee shop I did not see that a women who was say on the outside table has a dog under the table with no lead on. As we went to past the table the dog reacted to my dog and leaped out from under the table yapping. Tbh I knew my dog wouldn’t react And I had her on lead and there was no where else for me to go other than in to the main road That I just went to carry on walking. Immediately though the women picked up her dog in a panic and boots my dog with quite some force.
I was a bit taken back to be honest and said what did she think she was doing, she said my dog shouldn’t be near hers.
who was unreasonable here ?!