Last week, I went to the curb to get the trash container and roll it back to the house when the neighbor started running towards me yelling, with an empty leash in his hand.
There he was, the pit bull, wagging his whole body and happy to see me. I had never seen that dog before.
He ran directly to me and I just shut my eyes and waited. Luckily, he obeyed his owner and just sniffed my hand. I wasn’t really scared - I just ended up feeling silly (and lucky).
When we moved in, while carrying stuff in through back yard, neighbor's pit bull mix came into our yard, growling at me. I was not armed or it would be dead. I made that clear to the neighbors. They fixed the fence. Turns out to be an old dog. But they've been very careful about the dog since. Needless to say, they have not been a welcoming neighbor. Oh well.
” . . .the neighbor started running towards me yelling, with an empty leash in his hand. “ . . .
It sounds like the owner knew something you did not about his dog.
I don’t think that you had reason to feel silly. Quite the opposite.
You may want to make preparations to meet this dog again. When it is not so happy. Without its owner. The dog has already demonstrated that it either “got out” or “got loose”.