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That's what was yelled to us on Saturday after walking our dogs. Let me rephrase...that's what was yelled to us on Saturday as we were walking our fully-leashed, 100% in control, dogs in our neighborhood.

We went for a walk, and we live in an "interesting" neighborhood when it comes to pets. We took our two dogs for a walk. Gidget is GREAT walking. She gets her little bulldog waddle, wears her harness, and she doesn't pull...at all (unless she sees a squirrel, but she's easily redirected back to me.) Grimm, eh, he's okay. He's always on patrol.

As we walk on the street behind ours, we see a three-legged dog just kind of sniffing at mailboxes, marking them, etc. There are four people outside: one guy across the street, two teenagers, and another adult across from him. NO ONE MAKES AN EFFORT to get their three-legged dog (no tags, no collar, nothing) as we approach. Before we got anywhere near to them, I said, "let's turn around, and walk back." With saying that, the three-legged dog's tail raises in an aggressive and "WTF?!" position, his hair raises, he barks, and then lowers his head, and charges at us (three-legged dogs can hop pretty damn fast.)

With that, and our dogs looking over their shoulders like, "what's going on?!" the man starts screaming, "GET THE DOG! GET THE DOG!" Instead of actually, I don't know, running out and restraining his wandering dog. The three people across the street just look at him like, "There's no way I'm chasing after a growling and aggressive dog I don't own!" We continue to walk away with the three-legged dog slowing dog but still chasing us.

That's when I hear it, "CONTROL YOUR DOG!" I *think* it's someone telling the guy who owns the three-legged dog, but when I look, the guy has a rope around his dog's neck, and he's pointing at US. When my fiancé turns around, the guy says, "YOU HEARD ME! CONTROL YOUR DOG!" and shakes his finger at us. My fiancé yells out, "there's a leash law in this area against wandering dogs, just an FYI," and leaves it at that. The last thing we need is to cause problems in our neighborhood with neighbors. Instead, we'll just walk on another street.

What an idiot.