Dog let loose in their open garden

[MrsVidic]

This morning I was on my usual run which is down many counrty roads. I was running past this house and I see a dog sat still in a garden (which has no fence or gate). I continue and the dog barks and chases me (while still in its garden) and I shit myself (no literally Radcliffe style )

Now this dog is massive (the same make as the dog from the film Turner and Hooch). AIBU in thinking that if the garden is open it should be restrained in some way? I just keep thinking what if I was pushing a pram/ or a car was going passed when it scard me (I would have probably ran infont of it accidently)

Firstly, I love dogs, I have always grown up with them in my mums house.

Go and knock and tell them

I dare you

I'm not going anywhere near that beast!

The owner's bloody silly for a number of reasons and YANBU. I'm tempted to say that any dog, no matter how well trained, might one day be distracted enough to break his invisible boundaries but having owned a GSD whom I knew I coul trust 100% not to leave my side when he was off-lead, it's a hard call. If this dog was to go out of his garden it DOESN'T mean that he's an automatic risk to the public, but it does mean that a big beggar like a (IIRR) Dogue De Bordeaux could unintentionally knock a grown man flying.

Worse still, a dog like that is at risk of being stolen. Over the past 12 months or so I've taken more appeals about dogs which have been stolen from gardens and from outside shops than ever before, not just in big towns but in small, expensive villages too.

Farm dogs always freak me out when I'm running. Some of them aren't averse to a quick nip to the calves either

There is a dog that is left to guard his driveway on the way we walk to DD1's pre-school - not sure of the breed, the first time I saw it I was going to knock on the door to ask if it had got out by accident, as soon as I stepped on the driveway - no hedges/wall etc totally open so 2 cars can park - it really barked - obviously I came onto his property.

What I worry more about though is that it's right by a very busy main road - I agree that it's more likely it would be stolen - he's a beautiful dog or worse knocked down if he decided to cross the boundary.