Yep, we do sometimes and Monty, also a Boxer, is only 7 months old. If people avoid him now god knows what it'll be like when he's fully grown!

That reads wrong - i meant we do come across people who avoid our dog not we avoid certain dogs!!

Only one lady who walk her boxer avoids everyone he is a nightmare for her. When shes out walking her other dog we stop and chat and my dogs say hello to her other dog.
I get a few children that run a mile. I am very understanding of this as I was scared stiff as a small child of dogs. My dad brought a puppy and my fears soon faded. My daughter was brought up knowing plenty of dogs and adored my sisters two. Its was a long gap between having my first child and my second, my son had an awfull fear of all animals but by the age of three started to like little furries. By this time I had another little boy and my days were very filled with little children. My eldest son and daughter were forever asking for a pet. I was not ready then little son decided he had this fear of all things furry too. So it took another three years for him to like small furries so I got us some much wanted and longed for guinea pigs. Although hubby and I longed for a dog little son would freeze at the site of one. Then a school friend of thiers got a puppy and we met him on the street one day, my eldest was all over Max then my youngest gave him a stroke when he saw who he belonged to he must of thought he was ok as his mummy and brother plus his friends were there. After that he saw Max often and liked him but still froze at other dogs he did not know. The best thing was he asked if we could get a dog. I was delighted by this at last I could have my very long awaited dog of my own eight months later I got my wish in my Ziggy followed by Dotty.
Well if you got that far without nodding off just remember that fear in children is very real and no fun for mum and dad its a nightmare for them.

All the time in fact every day I now just think what idiots

I would never dream of imposing my dogs on people who feared them, kids in particular .. My post was in refrence to a trip out on common land at 8 am on a sunday morning with nothing but a herd of deer and people walking their dogs ..jj

Oh we so get this too and it really does p me off. Dillon is such a big lad and people see him coming and you can see the panick in there eyes. And is not because off the size its because of the breed,the amount off people that decide to cross the road or quicky walk the other direction its mad.
Bulldogs or staff's or any breed like that have got such a bad name it is quite sad. Any dog could turn if it wanted but it is all down to the way you bring them up.Dillon is such a gentle giant he would just roll over and want fussing he wouldnt even bark, it makes you want to walk around with a sign around your neck !!!
Its such a same for him though cause he doesnt get as much socialisation when people are tuning there dogs around.....

We get it the other way round everyone wants to rush up to Ollie and fuss him so we have to avoid them as he is not good with strangers and certain dogs so I find I am the one doing the avoiding most of the time. He has some people he knows and loves and their dogs and I can safely let him say hello and play but if I do not know the people or dogs I avoid them as Ollie can get very defensive and he is large and I have to have the situation under control.

Only the ones that know us!!! Only Joking!

Not many dogs or people are worried by my two as they are both small breeds. Occasionally kids who are scared of dogs will give them a wide berth, which is fair enough. Because Gozo is so small and cute he attracts a lot of attention, which he's not really interested in, and as people bend down to pet him they get a face full of Pepper who loves attention!

We don't avoid any breed in particular but I am always cautious around bouncy dogs I don't know in case they don't know how to play with a small dog. We bump into a lovely boxer, she's only 10 months, so very playful and I do need to watch her around Gozo.

J

I've got used to people avoiding our mastiff, it's weird though because she's very obedient and well-mannered, not to mention the soppiest dog you'd ever meet! Everyone wants to make a fuss over my yorkies, even though their manners aren't half as good!

I do tend to notice people moving out of our way...but i guess 6 can be a scary sight.

I can even understand it om the way out when they are hyper but on the way back when they are all plodding on lead and not interested in anything then it does puzzle me a bit. - Maybe they are just being considerate rather than scared.