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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The point - sorry, I guess you were too slow to get it - is that a dog merely being off leash does not give you the right to "defend yourself" against it by pepper spraying or kicking the dog. The dog has to DO something other than just be off leash for you to turn violent. Just the same as you cannot simply hit a jaywalker with your car, just because the person is a jaywalker. 
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Right - I'm not running around pepper spraying dogs. But if it comes up to me (as opposed to me going up to them), that is a perceived safety concern. Dogs are animals. They bite. They lunge. I am not responsible for them - their owner is. I am not responsible for predicting their behavior. I am not responsible for giving animals the benefit of the doubt. I am only responsible for predicting myself. [/quote]

What, do you think PP is going to run after an unleashed dog and spray it?

If an illegally unleashed dog approaches you, that is legal reason enough to defend yourself. It is not the job of the human being who is legally in the right to be in the public space to judge whether an unleashed dog that approaches them may be a threat or not. They have every right to defend themselves without having to be attacked first.[/quote]

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