A "friendly manner" is oh so difficult to describe. What constitutes a friendly manner to most owners, their dog has never been aggressive, or a wagging tail?.. Which in actuality could be anything from happiness/playful to shy/fearful/aggressive/insecure. If that was the case (the Dascshund was off leash) then the owner essentially shares the blame. Non the less a sad unfortunate situation.
Imo. I don't really think a dog should be taken "off-leash" not matter how trained, unless in a completely controlled environment, ie. your fenced backyard. It's hard to say whether you can truly keep your dog under control in an uncontrolled environment (i.e.:if someone else dog runs up to you, you now have to control two dogs). And as for the owner not calling his dog back, could be numerous different reasons from "it happened to fast" to "not trained well enough" to recall, to anything else ...Like the news story I saw a couple weeks back where a girl had her dog off leash (said he was "very well trained"), well he took off and jumped into frozen water/river, she jumped in after him, he did not listen to her recall either. Thankfully both owner and dog were okay.
Then theres the video I saw the other night, again very unfortunate and very sad; The dog owner wants to sue the ny police department, yet imo. she is totally at fault... Police knocked on her neighbours door in an apartment complex, she cracked her door (to see what was happening..nosey nosey) and her pitbull poked his nose through, escaped and walked toward an officer "tail-wagging"...was shot dead. That is why you teach you dog not to go in or out of a door/car/etc unless you give it the command to. Then, more importantly, also in question, why she did not have full control of her dog before opening the door (ie. grabbed by his collar, or on a leash, etc.). And finally why she opened the door when she was not involved. Again very sad situation, but uneducated owner.
