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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had children literally run up and start petting our dogs while we were on a walk.  Once a tall, male jogger ran up to me and my dog - causing my dog to bristle and become wary. I finally had to stop walking them because, while our dogs are friendly, having strangers run up to them is startling and I didn't want incidents like that to create a phobia in my dogs.

I honestly don't know what people are thinking.  Always ask before you pet a dog.[/quote]

Yeah, if your dogs "bristle" at totally normal and predicatable sidewalk encounters (joggers passing you) then you did the right thing to stop walking them.

I think a big issue here that we're not discussing is the terrible trend in people "rescuing" dangerous dogs in an urban setting.  I get that you want to be an animal savior, but maybe stop and think a minute about whether it's really a good idea to put your "rescue" in a setting where there'a no way to avoid close contact with a lot of people.  [/quote]

My dog became wary when a tall man ran up to us on a walk.  My dog was being protective of me which is totally normal for her breed.  She is a sweetheart and if that jogger had just jogged past us it would not have been an issue.  But running straight up to us like that was startling to both me and my dog.  I bristled a bit too, tbh.[/quote]

Joggers are under no duty to give you an abnormally wide berth.  If you can't share the sidewalk with normal users, then you should not be on the sidewalk.  [/quote]

That isn't what happened though.  I explained that I was on the sidewalk with my dog, a jogger was running down the street and very suddenly made a beeline towards us to pet my dog.  It startled me and it startled my dog.[/quote]
You need to learn to write clearly. Your original post did not indicate he got in the face of your dog to PET him. All I got was that jogger was running straight at you.[/quote]

To clarify - he was running in the street, we were on the sidewalk.  Suddenly he veered onto the sidewalk and ran straight at us.  Not by us, AT us, with the intention of petting my dog.[/quote]

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