“ME: Look, if you’re going to do what you want, I’m going to do what I want, but you’re not going to like it.
HER: What’s that?
ME (to the dog): Come here, puppy!”
The conversation seems reasonable until this part. If I’m in that women’s place, and the guy is calling my dog after saying I won’t like what he’s about to do, in my view he is about to hurt my dog. That is a threat.
Kind of, but the fact that all she has to do to remove the threat is grab/leash the dog (which she did) really mitigates that. He never took a step in her direction, and she actually ran at HIM. Her behavior was more threatening than his was.