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[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

i didn’t mean to move the responsibility of dog ownership onto the potential victim.

i was simply reacting to the “no reason” part of the statement. dogs, same as humans, are pretty simple creatures. we operate on a trigger > reaction basis.

we may not know what the trigger for the dog is (hell, we often don’t know what the trigger is for us), but that doesn’t mean there is none. and unfortunately, parents often don’t teach kids correct approach to stranger’s dog (probably because they themselves don’t know it), but that does not seem to be your case.

Cannot read body language, if I can’t see the dog

yeah, that’s fair, seems like the owner’s fault.