yikes. I’m glad you were fast enough.
things like that are why we are really careful about teaching our toddler how to approach dogs. Even well behaved and usually friendly dogs can be freaked out. Especially by a rampaging shrieking toddler.
Approach human and dog slowly, be quiet, ask first, approach dog slowly, no eye contact, offer loosely curled fist for sniff, pet to the side, never reach over a dog’s head, pay attention to how the dog is feeling.
I’ve had a few people we’ve met think it’s weird, how we demonstrate with verbal narration and then instruct her step by step- but we don’t have dogs at our house. How else is she gonna learn? I do appreciate the dog-owned-humans who are patient enough to let us do it.
I feel sorry for the dog in the photo. She looks uncomfortable 
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