I guess my original post was somewhat murky, but if you go back and read it, you will see that I did NOT call the individual who showed up with his dog, an idiot.
What I DID say, was that since the world IS full of idiots, to include the antoganist of the OPs story, we chose to avoid the POTENTIAL for a problem, and left.
The nature of the Search and Rescue training that we conduct, requires that we have our dogs OFF LEASH to train, as they search off leash.
Do I know that this couple and their dog would have caused an issue? No, I don't. I know that our dogs would have entirely ignored his dog- but I don't know what HIS dog would have done to ours.
Under state law, we could have asked HIM to leave, since we were conducting state-sanctioned SAR K9 training and his dog's presence had the potential to interfere (our dogs are exempt from state leash laws during training as well), but it was easier to just take our dogs elsewhere.
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You got some good answers here.
And I SO empathize with your experience.
I do want to say that hi-test heated exchanges between the humans is pouring fuel onto any spark of aggression between the dogs.
I can't think of many situations where screaming at the other owner is productive. Maybe to make clear that the situation is more volatile than they understand -- but again, the screaming itself is probably going to amp up the response in an excited dog, whether it's fear aggression or anything else.
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