People who don’t least their dogs annoy me

I was walking my dog tonight, (I walk him late at night because that’s what is convenient for me). My dog, Jeb is a coonhound and pit mix so he is quite large. He has a history of biting dogs but with some challenges I can control him if I am aware of a dog and prepared to redirect his attention to me.

There is a house that has a large hound who they do not leash at night. Multiple time I’ve walked my dog past that house and their dog has been unleashed or running in the street. Though during the afternoons they do wash their dog, so i thought it was a fluke. Eventually I started avoiding that house and turning around half way through my walk to avoid this dog running up to mine.

Tonight I made the half way mark, I stopped to respond to a message on my phone and had Jeb standing next to me. I felt a sudden yank and I saw that Jeb was attacking that dog, I heard it yelping and grabbed Jeb. I pulled him away and the other dog scurried off. The dog (thankfully) wasn’t seriously injured but I on the other hand was very angry.

It blows my mind how stupid a person could be to actively let their dog run free because it’s not aggressive and it’s night time so it (probably) won’t get hit by a car. It’s so inconsiderate, that dog runs up to Jeb any time it sees him despite Jeb clearly being aggressive. I’m not mad at the dog, more the owner. It takes a very careless person to think “well my dog isn’t aggressive and it probably won’t get hit by a car so it’s fine”. This mindset is what gets trained dogs who have reactivity issues put down because you don’t care enough to leash your dog. I’m tired of people only thinking of themselves.