Walked my dogs on their nightly walk, the same as I have for about 14 years(4 years in the navy taken out, still 10). All sorts of ***can happen on the walk, generally it's just someone driving too fast and I have to pull my dogs out off the road and wait a few seconds.
Tonight was one of those special nights though, where someone else let their dogs that they never walk/play with out of their fence. These two huge shaggy dogs, one white, and one golden, come bounding up to me and my dogs. My dogs are dachshunds, so they're relatively small. These shaggy dogs are barking barking barking, and then they get closer, moving in circles around me and my dogs, snarling. They bumped into each other in their excitement, and bit at each others faces, snarling at each other in a minor quarrel.
Then they refocused on me and my dogs, attempting to nip at my dogs, but of course, they dart away when I stand between them or even just put my foot down between them. It got so bad though, that we couldn't move in any direction. Their owner finally comes out on his front stoop and calls them over to him, which they obey after about 3 calls. Then things get eerily quiet, and I go on to finish the walk, turn around, and go on home. About half way home the dogs come bounding up again. I turn around lean down face to muzzle with the golden one and I shout in his face, "GO HOME!" He barks once more, but then turns tail and actually does what I say.
Personally, I'd like to think that I intimidated him, but I'm pretty sure he was just so far away from home that he decided I wasn't worth it/wasn't in his territory anymore and went home. I hope this does not become a regular event.