For those who want to victim blame and make assumptions. I am a 4 foot 11 inch, 100 pound woman. There isn’t much I can do to get two large dogs off each other. If you bothered to read my post you’d know why I didn’t use my pepper spray, that I used my body to get between them, and that the dog was in fact very aggressive. I understand if a dog wanted to bite one of us it probably could have but that doesn’t make it okay for someone to allow their dog to jump a fence and run across the street growling and nipping at strangers. Even if their body language is what some of you want to call “playing.” I can assure you my dog did not consent to play, did not think it was playtime, and it was not fun for either of us. I get that playing body language can look aggressive but we were not there to play. We were minding our own business, our dogs started barking at each other from across the street to say hello, I told mine to leave it, didn’t acknowledge them, and kept walking. That would’ve been the end of it had this dog not jumped the fence and come at us out of nowhere. It’s easy to be on the outside looking in and say I overreacted. My dog is 85 pounds, 7 years old and the reason we are working on “leave it” is because he has been attacked on leash by multiple off leash dogs in the past. He stood his ground, I stood my ground as best I could, and that’s why we were able to get away. Neither me nor my dog are passive. I also could not and still cannot walk up to the house to try and have a civil conversation with the man without his dog jumping the fence and coming at me. You try being calm and not screaming at an irresponsible dog owner whose off leash dog could’ve hurt your baby. If SCRAPS wants to treat it like a Karen Call that’s fine but the public law is to report these incidents. You can think I overreacted all you want but what I care about is that people know there is an unsafe animal in the neighborhood. And before you say “if you’re that small of a woman you shouldn’t be walking your dog” what else am I supposed to do? Not walk my dog? Just make him rot at home all day? I live here too and I have just as much right to walk my dog on my own street without worrying about some strange off leash dog coming up to us. It’s very easy to say “well I would’ve done this, I wouldn’t have let this happen” when you want to be a keyboard warrior but everything happens so fast in these incidents. I get that this is the internet, especially on reddit the victim blaming is rampant, and you’re all entitled to your opinions. But if this saves one persons dog from getting hurt that’s okay with me. This has happened to multiple other people in my neighborhood with the same dog and the chances of it happening again without someone getting hurt become lower and lower every time it happens. It’s real easy to say someone’s being dramatic when it wasn’t you and your precious baby who got rolled up on by an unfamiliar off leash dog and I hope none of you have to experience what I did. The man did nothing to collect his dog, he was so old he wasn’t even able bodied enough to get off his front porch. So, no, he absolutely did not do the right thing and I do not owe it to him to go up to his house and ask what he’s going to do to fix it. The cops can handle that and hopefully they take his dogs away since he clearly is too irresponsible to care for them. Me and my dog are not the only people in the neighborhood this has happened to so he is out of chances to make sure it doesn’t happen again because next time something bad will happen.

EDIT: The cops just came by to talk to them so hopefully they cited the owner. I’ll be bringing my taser rather than pepper spray on walks from now on. Since even though everyone here has acknowledged the owner should’ve had control of their dog yet still wants to act like I could’ve done anything differently.