Took Jasper for his morning constitutional and he excelled himself with truly horrendous behaviour. First, he came across a basset hound and was fine with it until I went to stroke the old chap. Then he got very gobby indeed. The basset told him off and stalked off in high dudgeon, leaving me apologising to the owner (who was lovely and gracious about my hooligan hound). Then he spotted a dog on lead across the field and made a beeline. He has literally never done this before. I managed to recall him before he got too close, but he was close enough to attract the attention of the other dog which left its owner digging her heels in to the field to hang on to him. Again, I had to apologise (from a distance) as her dog was clearly unhappy at being approached at all and it was totally my fault. Then we happened across a teenage boy on his way to football practice. He had a ball. Jas ran to him and jumped up once before I got him back. Little sod kept dancing out of lead distance, too, so I ended up having to stand still and wait for him to decide to come back to me. It was a catalogue of shit dog manners and bad ownership. I could do with a gin tbh.