It is one thing if the large dog lives in the same home as the Yorkie, but it is quite another to encounter an off-leash, unattended Great Dane mix unexpectedly on the street as Max and I did yesterday.
The owner has zero empathy for my fear of large dogs, and zero understanding that my feisty Yorkie is going to start a fight with this normally nice dog -- and my Yorkie is going to lose.
It is scary for me and my dog to see an enormous dog pop out of nowhere and make a beeline for us, and jump around us.