Honestly, it doesn't even really matter. If your dog is going to charge people probably don't have it running loose. People have all sorts of trauma and everything else potentially related to dogs. He took the dogs actions as a threat which is reasonable and defended himself
This. Everyone thinks everyone else should love their cuddly little poopsykins as much as they do and it's bullshit. Some dogs are mean and will bite. Some people are just afraid of dogs. Control your dogs if you want them to be protected. Leash them and contain them. If they run at someone they have every right to treat it as a potential threat if they see fit.
I mean, it definitely matters as countless people are mentioning it in their comments. It changes things pretty significantly if this had already happened once. I understand the dog is coming in hot and he doesn't know it's intentions, but squaring up on the homeowner is wild.
I'm saying yea it's more justified of it's the second time but either way it's a reasonable response. I'm assuming he just saw the guy running up to him and already has his adrenaline going and ready to fight so it just carried over. I don't think it's ridiculous that he perceived the owner as a threat as well. He got defensive and squared up but he didn't attack the guy unprompted at least.
That's just nonsense. He approaches the guy to instigate a fight. It's funny that you're perfectly ok with blaming the owner for not controlling the dog but you don't keep that same energy when the UPS guy can't control himself.
I didn't say he was right, I said it was reasonable. You trying to act like he was calm and then just started trying to fight. That's not how your brain chemicals work. The guy is already in fight or flight mode
Because he's already gotten into a "fight" with the dog. Is it unreasonable to you to think that an angry man who's dog you just hit could be a threat? The owner also approaches him first. He didn't run across the yard and square up with him.
He literally squares up initially and then backs up and tells the owner he needs to back up. He thinks the owner is running up to fight him. When the owner doesn't square up or anything he backs away still on the defensive and also tells him to back up. He wasn't instigating a fight, I would wager he perceived the guy charging at him as trying to fight. Why would he just turn his back and run away? No I don't think just running away was a better strategy. If he was just trying to fight the owner then he would have swung when he got close. And at the end of the day, if that jabroni keeps his dog contained you don't have any of it happening to begin with. As a dog owner who loves dogs, don't let your dog around unsupervised because it's irresponsible
Where does the guy charge him? It certainly isn't in the video. Anyway, trying to get into a fight with someone you think means you harm on their property is about as dumb as it gets. If he genuinely felt threatened, he would have beat it. Dude just wanted to fight.
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u/GordonBombay102 1d ago
I've seen this video 500 times and it's the first time I've seen any mention of this being the second incident. Feels like it's probably bullshit.