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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Mother-Outcome1634 on 2023-08-25 01:06:36.

I took my son (2M) to the park today and we were playing and running around. My son sees a middle aged lady walking her golden retriever. He kinda knows what dogs are from books, but does not have much of any interaction with them.

He points at the dog and mumbles something like dog and keeps repeating it. I tell him, yup thats a dog buddy. And he just kinda stares at it. Well the women notices, she decides to let her dog off leash and lets it approach us.

I’m not happy with this decision. I approach the dog before it arrives and grab it by its collar. I don’t want it getting closer to my kid. I take it back to its owner and ask her if she is fucking stupid? She says something like “okay asshole, he’s friendly and it seemed like your son wanted to say hi”. I say ask me, don’t assume. I’m not okay with strange dogs coming up to my son. She keeps trying to defend her actions but i’m not having it. I told her she’s lucky all I did was grab its collar and asked her to move on. AITA?