thanks everyone

even if Snowy had been on the lead, it wouldn't have been any different because it was the fact that those two dogs that were chasing her so I'm not going to start walking Snowy on the lead in that garden because Snowy has no problems with other dogs big or small and as I said we have been walking there since Snowy was a puppy.

I think this has happened to her before because she started her sentence by saying "Oh no, not another one" so her dogs must have chased other dogs before (probably many times) and they told her dogs to back off. She should learn that socialising is something that dogs learn from other dogs. She may never learn but I hope her dogs will - they are not bad dogs, just boisterous.

I don't think I want to come across this woman again so if I ever see her again from a distance I shall walk another way.

Thanks again everyone for being so supportive!

William