I can't wait for the commenter who tries to spin this as the heroic dog owner standing up to the Passive Aggressive Portlander, who should have just kicked the guy's ass in lieu of yelling at him, according to whatever Internet Tough Guy ends up writing it.
It's a free country (for now), so do what you please, but I personnally don't like being owned by anyone; especially a dog. If you haven't figured it out by now it's probably over your head, but humans don't own dogs - the dogs own them... slaves.
Not sure how to make my proposal legal -- somebody else can worry about those minor details (i.e., the Constitution, due process, etc., etc.).
This was actually a pretty funny and entertaining read. thank you!
Sorry you had a bad experience with a dog owner though.
Not all of them are like that. =)