Occasional poster, just needed somewhere to vent..
Out having a lovely walk this morning, ddog is a manchester terrier with some fear issues, always on a lead.
Whilst a pup he had numerous incidences on separate occasions of bounding black labs and spaniels "coming over to say hello" off lead and totally in the face of him. Hence the fear issues :-o
So normally, if I see one of these breeds heading my way I very often detour as otherwise he whips himself into a frenzy, only this morning there was no escape. Narrow path by side of field, neighbours black lab off lead heading towards me. I have mine on short lead by my side. Mine seems just about ok and then the lab takes a sniff of me (the foot path was only 18inches wide) and my terrier then totally loses it. Neighbour tuts at me and says "Well that was nasty"
We live a few doors apart. When I see him next do I say something or do I just let it go? What else could I have done? (Neighbour knows that my dog has issues).
I get so frustrated with off lead dogs (or rather their owners) - it happens so often, isn't it etiquette to put a dog on a lead if the one coming the other way is on one or am i being unrealistic?