I'm annoyed. Was out today walking dog, he can be anxious, we always walk him on a short lead and we're working on his social skills. Busy woodland park type place. He's been good as gold, sniffed and been friendly with at least ten dogs that we've passed also on lead, I always tell the other owners he's anxious and may react before allowing an approach. He has no interest in humans and ignore people passing him. Anyway, almost at the end of the walk and this small white yapping fluffy dog come running over to him, off lead, barking, our dog backed into our legs but the suddenly snapped at the white dog . The owner then came running over screaming and picked her dog up. I said 'you need to have your dog on a lead' and we continued our walk. Our dog didn't actually bite the white dog but to be fair it may have done if she hadn't picked it up.
We continued walking, I turned round and she was taking photos of us! So now I'm probably on social media somewhere labelled as having an out of control dog, even though it was her dog off lead running up to on lead dogs uninvited.
Our dog is a mongrel about spaniel sized.
Why do people with small dogs seem to think it's fine to let their dogs run up to anything any everything? It's always bloody little dogs that seem to run up and approach uninvited.
I genuinely don't think we did anything wrong. How are we supposed to work on socialising him without taking him to places where he will see other dogs. I can control who he approaches but unfortunately I can't control other peoples off lead dogs.
He's a rescue but we've had him from being a very young puppy. He's now 2yrs.