Thanks all, Ally I was petrified. I was still shaking when we got home half an hour later.
Poor thing though, he's cut his walk short this morning. We got half way along the path that goes towards where it happened when he took a right turn and started heading in the direction of home.
And would you believe it if I told you we came across another nasty Staffie when we were almost home? Again on a intersection on path where one crosses another. Thankfully this one was on his lead this but he was snarling and baring his teeth and refused to move, it took his owner all his strength to drag him away.
Di's right, they're not usually animal friendly. Apart from Butch over the road who is lovely. Billy had only lived here a couple of weeks when he showed up at our door with one of their kids who wanted to see if he was ready to go for a walk yet. When he'd had his injections Joe and Ben used to take them out every afternoon after school