Oh this is also one of my pet peeves. Ginger is friendly to other dogs, but I have on occasion had a foster that was not. And on two occasions I had loose dogs run at us when I had one particularly unfriendly foster. I cannot tell you how mad it makes me. Now mind you, neither of the dogs that I was walking was a big dog (30 pounds and 38 pounds), but still more than I want to be struggling with when someone else cannot be bothered to control their dog. In the first instance, the owner came up and grabbed her dog by the collar while I tried to contol the foster. In the second instance, the dog came running from a condo, with NO ONE following him. I was able to get myself between the loose dog and the foster, and Ginger was a good girl to keep the dog occupied while I settled Jivi down. The dog did try to walk around us to say "hi" to Jivi, but quickly gave up and walked back to the condo. I understand that sometimes things happen, and on occasion dogs get loose accidently, but no one came out after this dog. But if that dog had gotten hurt you know that they would have been sending me all kinds of medical bills. And, yes, you can be cited for failure to control a dog on lead (at least in NJ you can).

I am sorry, but you really have hit on one of my pet peeves.