"Well sorry love but you want to watch your language" ???
Was walking through the park to fetch DD from school today. I walked past a man walking an alsatian on a lead, it growled and jumped up at me, he yanked it down, then it lunged forward and bit my thigh twice. I was wearing thick tights and a skirt over jeans, and it has still left bruises on my leg.
The man just carried on walking so I called after him. OK, the 'fucking' was unnecessary but I was so shocked and shaken, it just slipped out. He proceeded to tell me off for swearing and said I 'must have smelled of something that set her off' , 'didn't appear to be in agony', and 'need to get over it'.
I just walked past! Even when it growled ad jumped I just carried on walking - I am used to dogs (DP has a mahoosive alsatian/newfoundland cross), confident with them and not at all scared of them.
It would have drawn blood on a child's face. I shudder to think.... and I was too shocked and angry at his reaction to take a photo of them. I was just shaking and almost in tears, not so much from the dog itself as sheer rage at the way he spoke to me.