I took my little Sheltie Collie out for a walk in the country.
I saw a group of mules on a hill a ways away. They came charging.
I figured they wanted some food.
They didn’t.
They surrounded me and had their ears back and showing their teeth.
I noticed they were all looking at my dog.
I picked her up.
The mules were like, “Oh. It’s just a dog.”
They left.
My dog looked at me and said, “Let’s go home and chase tennis balls in the backyard.”
A lot of animals think dogs are coyotes.
A few weeks ago I was walking by dogs by six horses, who they see walking several times a week, for years. No, from the dogs glances, they don’t consider them friends. A younger one came to the fence and gave what I thought was a friendly whinny, my shepard disagreed and responded with some loud growls. Young horse was scared, they all moved, and within what seemed like seconds but was probably 20 or 30 I was facing six horses, shoulder to shoulder, largest on the outside, glaring at us. Throwback to the days of knights. My only thought, will single strand barb wire stop them. We left, they just glared, when we walked by them later everyone was fine. You never know.