I train my dog for the B in local public areas and have problems with people who want to pet my dog. Do you have any ideas?

I came up with a unique repertoire of responses to people who try to come up and touch my dog when I am working on the "B" crowd stuff. Since I do not have a close club, I utilize parks and certain areas around town.

If they ask then I explain that I am a trainer and busy and would be happy to answer any questions after I finished the excesses. I then explain why I do not allow any person to touch my dog. This has gotten me quite a few training clients by the way. One guy actually tipped me. Petsmart of course banned me because I was supposedly soliciting.

If they do not ask and just reach out, I step in between them and the dog. Depending on my mood I might say one of two things: "It is extremely rude of you to touch MY dog with out even acknowledging my presence!" or "What are you; some kind of pet molester?!." You should see the looks I get for that one. So far the only kind of response I get from these people is extreme embarrassment and a very quick appologies. I got tired of arguing with people that try to say "he's not going to bite me, he is a friendly boy", also I was getting too tempted to let my dog go ahead and lunge and snap his jaws in their face. I heard that you can get sued for scaring someone into a heart attack.

Let me know what you think. (Hope I made the tongue in cheek attitude clear enough.)