I think it's OK to let go

[TimeHeals]

Journaling: Feel kind of bad because I spoke in anger to a neighbor today.

I was walking my dogs through the neighborhood, and some woman was walking her dogs (both very large, one some kind of wolf hound mix), and her dogs were not on leashes and not staying close to her.

Her dogs came over to sniff my dogs. My oldest dog provokes fights by "staring" to assert his dominance, and my youngest dog is perfectly fine around other dogs unless they act aggressive toward her, and then she promptly red lines.

So there I was hoping the leashes or collars did not break as my dogs lost control and her dogs were a foot away or less, I am yelling "No", she is yelling at her dogs from across the street, and in the middle of the fear that I was about to have a mess on my hands, I yelled at her, "You know there's a leash law, right?".

She said, "I'm sorry I'm not from here".

I could have let it go at this point because her dogs moved on, but the adrenelin was still pumping, and I said, "Well, you need to put your dogs on leashes so I don't call the cops next time".

I feel pretty bad about that last comment.

Now, there are other folks who have those electronic collars instead of leashs around the neighborhood, and some that allow their dogs into their front yards without a leash. This is the first incident, and to be fair, I was more worried about my dogs provoking a fight, and then they were on leashes, so me controlling them if a fight started would be potentially harmful to them.

But I should not have spoken so much because I was angry and scared there for a minute. That sucks.