Either I'm being misunderstood or iv wrote down my concerns unclearly. I'm not saying the dog owner may of had a knife, I go back to what nigello said .... in general I would not approach someone weather they be a dog walker, shop lifter etc when I'm with my defenceless child. I was asked why I didn't just approach the dog walker, I didn't feel i should of, I'd of had to of left my child to go approach this dog walker who wasn't even any where near us. We called out for the dog walker to come get the dog and they just sat on the bench. The dog walker was that far away that I couldn't tell if they was male or female. Thank you tiddles and melek kiz for understanding my point and to anyone else who understands Now I feel like I'm being attacked all because i didn't approach this dog walker. Sad.