When a family friend got a little terrier puppy a couple of yrs ago, she took her to a dog friendly park and had her on a long lead, playing games. Another dog, a Staffy I believe, came bounding across and grabbed the puppy in it's mouth, flung her up in the air and she fell to ground and died. My friend was devastated and the other dog owner, I'm not sure what they said or did about it but I think he came across and apologised and look my friend home in his car. That reason alone makes me worry when being around dogs without their lead on and I'm not one to be scared of dogs. Even if you know you're dog wouldn't start anything, someone else's might...

There is in fact, a little Jack Russell terrier that lives near me and when walking my dog, I fear that dog is being walked at the same time. It is terrible on the lead and the other night I was walking my dog across a road and I saw them walking the JR behind me. I didn't realise a dog could make so much noise on a lead! It was snorting and heaving by the way it was pulling and once on the track (where I walk my dog) it is let off the lead. Now, three times I've walked along that track and seen the dog fly up the track (which takes about 10 minutes to walk it!) and has almost come in contact with my dog. I've seen it run straight across the fields, down the ditches and the owners are no where to be seen and the dog doesn't even listen when its being called! It attacked my next door neighbours dog while he was out for his walk and scared my neighbour because it bolts across the field like lightning it's so fast!

I feel extremely nervous knowing that I would be shouted at for confronting this dog's owner but I want something to be done about it because I don't want to worry everytime I go out walking my dog. I don't know what to do, to tell them or not