Since becoming a dog owner ( west highland terrier) I have to say I find walking him an incredibly anxiety fuelled occurrence. I’ve never, as far as I can remember had an issue with dogs but since owning one myself I endlessly come across owners with much much bigger dogs who will happily let their dogs run up to you, without a lead, and start play fighting with my dog, jumping up me. I would never allow my dog off his lead or to jump up someone, not because he is aggressive or likely to run away ( although he probably would do a runner) but because I’m aware that many people are just nervous of dogs and dogs by their very nature can be temperamental so would never want to put myself in that sort of position or make any assumptions.
Why people think its perfectly acceptable to allow their dogs to run up to people and jump up people is beyond me. For me it just seems like an element of the entitlement culture again. I have a dog I am therefore entitled to allow him off his lead and I am entitled to allow him to jump up you….
Anyway, yeah. If you can’t control your dog and your dog does go as far to kill someone then your likely to be the sort of person who’s better off out of the way of other human beings.