And sometimes - this has happened twice now - it sees my dog and bolts toward us in attack mode, snarling and barking. Sometimes it runs to us but is obviously well-trained and we make a new friend. We’ve been in this scenario plenty of times sometimes the dog stays in the yard with its owner. This time at least the dog is in its yard with its owner, but I’m not reassured. One block more and I see another off-leash dog. His total lack of control over his animal would be comical if it wasn’t so rude, not to mention dangerous. We eventually push our way past while my neighbor chases his untrained dog around the street. “Aw, she won’t hurt you! She just wants to play!”īy this point, my dog is starting to lift his lip and show his teeth. “Uh, can you come get your dog?” I say to my neighbor. Her owner, maybe 10 yards away, is unloading groceries from the car as if this is all totally acceptable. She keeps ramming her head under my dog to get close-up sniffs of him. We try to walk forward, but the other dog continues circling us, rearing up like a horse and jumping playfully. My dog’s hackles aren’t up, but his little body is tensing he likes meeting other dogs on walks but becomes stressed when the other dog’s energy is too high and it doesn’t respect boundaries. She bounds up to my dog, lunging in and out, circling us both and cutting between us to run under the leash. She is fascinated by my dog and by me, and she wants to play. She is indeed friendly, and also extremely untrained. “She’s super friendly,” my neighbor says with a wave and a laugh. “Is your dog friendly?” I shout to my neighbor whose massive, unleashed pit bull is galloping toward me and my 12-pound leashed dog.
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