Having owned a decently behaved small dog, I understand why you are annoyed by such crap. In public or on walks Sassy never bothered anyone, she might have tried to get near them but she never barked and tugged at the leash to get to them. We never took her to the petstore though since she peed all over the store LOL, but other then that she was a good girl most of the time, due to my mom training her with the leash early on. I will admit she was never the nicest dog, has bitten people and broken the skin, but she never had bad manners on the leash or any sort of problems, even when there were other dogs around(she didn't like other dogs much).

I will say though, I've seen my share of badly behaved larger breed dogs. They were VERY sweet dogs just badly behaved. Last Sunday, as me and my friend were leaving the shelter this sweet boy named Omega, jumped onto my friend Alexa. She didn't mind, and he did not intend to hurt her but that is not acceptable and I honestly think that's why he has not been adopted, he has TERRIBLE leash manners, but other then that he's a great boy. Being a pitbull isn't helpful, but I will say the lady walking him had NO control over him whatsoever, I saw her again yesterday walking him and she shouldn't walk him, he's way to strong for her and very very hyper. That's part of our job, being volunteers, to teach the dogs manners, and the lady obviously wasn't she lets him jump onto everyone.

You shouldn't worry about what other people do, Ivy is a very good.