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Know you’re not “victim blaming” here, but it’s not bad luck @rhb has these encounters with these dogs, owners not controlling their dogs, apologising after the fact are the ones who are the cause of this.
I don’t like dogs (had a bad experience as a child) but I’ve come to terms with it and I don’t actively dislike them, but now I’ve got a small child being out in parks is my weekends, and seeing owners apologising after their dog has come charging up to my son and me, or has started barking whilst on the lead, and then been told that it’s a lovely dog, won’t do anything, its just excited, infuriates me.
I was also extra cautious when running across open land out west, which was used as prime dog walking site, because you’d have dogs off leads getting spooked by me running, which led to me slowing and walking past them so as not to excite them..