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Originally Posted by
louise!
If everyone with a reactive dog walked them on a lead, and everyone understood that you should not let your dog approach an on-lead dog, then in theory the only dogs that would meet off lead would be friendly ones, so my ver simple rule for dog walking is "do not approach on-lead dogs". Of course it never works out that way, but so far I've been fortunate enough to never meet a reactive dog that was not immediately collected and put on lead by its owners and my girls are never allowed to approach such dogs
I agree, that's my general rule too - no going near on lead dogs, but off lead dogs are ok to meet.
I know this theory all falls apart with the number of people who appear to walk DA dogs off the lead though