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[quote=Anonymous]So as a dog lover and owner of multiple dogs, I’m sorry that you have to go through this.  I try and keep my dogs and shorter leashes when we are around people and pull them back if they start to approach people uninvited.  One thing I saw once when walking by 2 ladies with my 3 dogs is that as we were about to pass her, she pulled out a little spray canister that I think was an air canister, not pepper spray, lol.  She didn’t use it but was ready to if my dogs got too close to her.  You could tell she had some anxiety with dogs.  I thought this was a great way for her to take control of maybe a bad dog owner letting a dog approach her to closely.  The spray wouldn’t hurt the dog but could prevent it from getting to her if the owner didn’t.  Some dogs might be set off from this but I still think it’s a reasonable option if dog owners don’t contain their dogs.  And people should feel the right to walk down a public street peacefully without being accosted by a dog.  I had a dog I was working with in reactivity once and asked someone to please give me a minute to get off a narrow path to give both our dogs space.  Well, she thought it was a great idea to plow right past me in close quarters with my highly reactive dog I was working with. Not a good idea.  Thankfully I had full control of her but she certainly regretted going past me that close and not giving me a chance to move off to the side of the path. People are just dumb sometimes.[/quote]

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