Aggressive dog

[luckysonofagun]

I have a large lab he's mostly well behaved with occasional bouts of looniness. His recall is pretty good maybe 95% but to be on safe side When walking in public areas I keep him on lead.

Where we walk we sometimes see an older women (70's) with a small poodle. It's always off lead (even near roads) and when it sees my dog it will run over and bark/snap/snarl aggressively. My dog doesn't react but jumps /tries to get away (he is on lead). The women will come and get it and apologise . I've been fairly nice as when training my dog I have been on receiving end of arsey dog owners. But this dog isn't playing it's being aggressive. It happened again today and I said to the women she needs to keep her dog Ona lead and pointed out if a big dog retaliates it could kill her dog. She got aggressive (like owner like pet) and shouted at me that's she's had cancer, and told me to shut up and go away. She also said to report her if I have a problem. (I don't know her name or address)

I don't see her every day it's usually random maybe once every few weeks. I can obviously try to avoid them but I'm not sure what else I can do. I'm worried about my dog getting jumpy around other dogs. I wondered about letting him off lead when we see them. He wouldn't hurt her dog but might scare it when he's bounding about. But her dog might successfully bite him which would obviously be worse.

Any ideas of how to resolve this situation?

Take photos of the ddog and send to the ddog warden with a report.. . Tell her you will be reporting any incidents.. Take a water bottle and wet her ddog.... Use a foot to keep it at bay of necessary..

I’d buy some k9 spray and spray her dog with it every time it approached. Why should your dog be affected/become fearful because of hers?

As well as using the k9 spray, I would also be filming any interactions with her and her dog in case you need to report her.

Thank you did not think of filming. Water and spray both good ideas

Do you usually see her near the road? Would it be possible for you to cross over when you see the dog, if you do see it near the road? There was a shih tzu in my local park that kept trying to bite my dog, would follow after us like the terminator, the useless owner doing nothing at all, as we, and his dog got further and further away, besides saying the dog’s name over and over as if the 20th call would be the time it worked 🙄
I got fed up of this happening every time we crossed paths, and one day I turned us around and headed right for the road, once the man realised where we were going and that his dog was heading for potential disaster, he finally pulled his finger out and jogged after us. He puts his dog on lead every time he sees me coming now, but it’s a little disappointing that his dog with no recall is still off lead terrorising everyone else with any dog larger than a spaniel if I’m not around.