Reminds me of a very un-STW moment from Saturday.
Riding through Tunnel Hill met a couple out walking three big stafordshire terrier type dogs (not sure, i imagine stafies to be smaller, these were big spaniel/ lab/boxxer sized, but didn’t look like boxxers at a glance). One ran after me with a bark when it caught up (made me jump when it caught up).
I turned around to look at it and it sat down wagging it’s tail.
Made me wonder how many of STW’s “if a dog ran at me barking I’d kick it because I’ve been attacked before” big hitter brigade actually bring it on themselves. There was a split second where I thought it might go for me, but being the passive type I didn’t do anything and nothing happened. If I’d done the aggressive thing and lashed out at the dog, would it have reacted like anything else that’s just been kicked?