Here it is. I live in London (Hackney) with my cross staff. When I go out with her people get extremely scared and disrespectfull. Yesterday I had to leave the bus and walk more three miles cos i couldn't stand 80 per cent of the commuters where not accepting a quite dog being there. I keep saying "she doesn't bite, she is friendly" and they told me " that's what you say, you can never trust".
During the several miles of walk, every 10 mins i crossed with someone that reacted like twat (sorry I can't find another word). So my dog is small and is not even looking to these people walking by, but they jump the other side of pavement. There was a young girl waiting in bus stop with a bag on the floor, my dog passes by, tied to me and very quite, smells the floor about half meter away from it and stops for half a second to smell some crap (human food waste), The young lady automatically attacks " why is this dog touching my bag" i turned and say "she didn't touch ANYTHING!!!!". They didn't response cos she didn't touch anything, but they still did attack in the first place.
I amtired to see small children absurdily freaking out when a dog passes by and their parents reinforcing this stupid and being verbally agressive and stupid to me and my dog, even though the dog is meters away from them, leashed and not even perceiving them (except when they shout, and they do!), she LOOKS at them.
Most of these people have non European background, untill now i tried to understand that different cultures don't recognise pet dogs in the same way, but Hackney is very diverse and most are second or third generation living in the city I think is time to accept that other people have dogs as pets!!!
What can I do? How can I make people understand? don't want to go into argument and the "she is frienly she doesn't bite" doesn't work. i want to respect that some people are scared but this is too much and they are really really dog disgusted and scared and no respect for a dog owner with a trained leashed pacefull dog that loves people.
During the several miles of walk, every 10 mins i crossed with someone that reacted like twat (sorry I can't find another word). So my dog is small and is not even looking to these people walking by, but they jump the other side of pavement. There was a young girl waiting in bus stop with a bag on the floor, my dog passes by, tied to me and very quite, smells the floor about half meter away from it and stops for half a second to smell some crap (human food waste), The young lady automatically attacks " why is this dog touching my bag" i turned and say "she didn't touch ANYTHING!!!!". They didn't response cos she didn't touch anything, but they still did attack in the first place.
I amtired to see small children absurdily freaking out when a dog passes by and their parents reinforcing this stupid and being verbally agressive and stupid to me and my dog, even though the dog is meters away from them, leashed and not even perceiving them (except when they shout, and they do!), she LOOKS at them.
Most of these people have non European background, untill now i tried to understand that different cultures don't recognise pet dogs in the same way, but Hackney is very diverse and most are second or third generation living in the city I think is time to accept that other people have dogs as pets!!!
What can I do? How can I make people understand? don't want to go into argument and the "she is frienly she doesn't bite" doesn't work. i want to respect that some people are scared but this is too much and they are really really dog disgusted and scared and no respect for a dog owner with a trained leashed pacefull dog that loves people.
I'm sorry you had to deal with so many IGNORANT people 
