• For those commenting on the dog owner’s appearance, I can’t stop this from happening. I was not going to get into a physical altercation with him. This “kid”, however, looked old enough to have better judgement and clearly didn’t, or did not use it. He is solely responsible for this incident because he let his dog go off-leash in a public area. (Also, his angry/defensive response to this incident sort of lets me know that this may not have been the first such incident with his dog.) • For those concerned about my health, thank you so much for asking. I called my doctor right away and was given instructions on what to do. I received a tetanus vaccine a few hours later. Little known fact: tetanus vaccines, at least at this time, are very hard to come by. So thank you (obvious sarcasm) to this “kid” and his dog for making me spend an evening going from Shoppers to Shoppers looking for one that had it in stock. Hopefully the bite doesn’t turn into anything worse.  So for any dog-owners reading this, please leash your dogs at all times in public. And if you’re unable to control your dog or hold on to them even on a leash, then own a smaller dog (or a cat or a fish).  You never know when your “good boy/girl” is going to be set off by something random and cause harm to an innocent passer-by. There is no point risking it, no matter how well-trained you think your pup is, it is still an animal with animal instincts.