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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dog is frightened of and aggressive toward most other dogs, and we have reason to believe that she was abused--and possibly involved in dog fighting--before we adopted her. We steer clear of places where we might run into other dogs, and cross the street with ample room to spare to avoid other dog walkers.

When your mild-mannered dog runs up to my leashed one, a fight may ensue. My emotionally unstable dog is probably the jerk who "started it," but then she's on a leash and yours is the one who ran up to us, all the while you're yelling to me not to worry because your dog is friendly. Unless you're a dog behaviorist, you probably can't anticipate how your otherwise calm dog will behave once it encounters mine.

I understand that my dog is the outlier, and know that the onus is on us to avoid pet stores, parks, even the kinds of trails that OP describes. But I have to walk her somewhere, and have had dogs run up to us on suburban sidewalks. It happens rarely, but it does happen. [/quote]

This was exactly our dog (who passed away).  We always kept him on a leash and avoided other dogs.  And when he encountered off leash dogs whose owners would say their dog was friendly it never went well.  Luckily he never got in a fight but it was always super stressful.   We had neighbors move in a previous TH community who would just open the door and let the dogs out.  It was awful[/quote]

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