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Your dog comes up and sniffs me, fine. Slobber sucks but whatever.

But if it yelps, barks, gets territorial, bares his teeth, etc, the sociopath (ie unable to behave properly in society) is the dog owner who cant keep the dog on a leech.

??? If youre in an off leash park do what ever you want. No one is arguing that.

Im annoyed at the leash-less dogs in parks where dogs aren't even allowed. Although they're the least of my problems, a neighbor has a couple of pet pigs.

Im going to go on a limb here and guess you're not from a third world country? My grandparents got burglarized on average once per year. “Asking” Argentines to politely respect private property is cute.

That being said, my grandpa ignored the pissing. The kidney blow was in response to the nip. And the dog got lucky: the old man spent his life building roads in guerrilla infected mountains.

I actually like dogs. Id be honored to have my BF entrust his dog to me for a few days.

But the onus is not on me to meet your pet half way, learn the species’ “tells” or pretend that there are no irresponsible owners.

The onus is on you.

Ground zero is Buenos Aires.

Ive been to Austin. Its nice. In sure you have some very annoying dog owners.

I grew up in BsAs. The city is a sidewalk of dog shit you have to avoid stepping on.

A little dog once nipped my 90 year old grandpa in his porch. My grandpa responded with a swift kidney blow from his cane.

The owner looked furious but caught me staring him in the eye in time to recompose himself and get off of our front yard.

The bloody nerve. You have your dog take its daily piss on our wall - a wall that my grandma cleans, btw. The dog takes its daily piss and my grandpa decides to ignore it, but then you don’t stop the thing from nipping him?

Oh well the dog pissed blood for a week after that

Why thankfully?

An unleashed dog comes up to you where its not supposed to.

- What are its intentions?

- Is it aggressive?

- Is it rabid?

Its no different than if a coyote came up and accosted you. Worse, because dogs are socialized not to fear man.

My neighbor had an aggressive dog (german shepherd) and every time my kid was outside in the backyard I made sure to carry a weapon to kill it if need be. It didn't really matter, my kid was too scared of it to play in the backyard.

I was planning on calling the city to have it destroyed but she moved out.

And for all you down voters... yes I talked to her. It was obvious talking with her where the dog got its attitude from.

No. A dog is not a human being, unless there is another factor (like your dog was defending you) youre looking at a murder charge. No matter how angry you might get the best you should keep your cool. Otherwise you're betting on being the benevolence of nine.

Only K-9 have that right, and thats ridiculous