Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : So, as in many places recently, my area had it's first real snowfall of the season last week. So I was out shoveling, and when I was done I put out salt on the sidewalk, as city laws say I'm responsible for that. As I'm doing this, a guy walks up to me and asks me if it's pet safe rock salt. It's not, and I tell him as much, and he immediately goes off on me about how I'm being hugely inconsiderate to the pet owners in the neighborhood, because they still have to walk their dogs in the winter and how it's terrible that he has to be extra sure that his dog isn't hurt by the salt because of people like me. I kinda brushed him off, and after he saw that I wasn't going to engage with him, he left.

Now, a couple of points in my defense: I don't have any pets. Pet safe rock salt is both more expensive ($11/bag vs. $4/bag) and it's a smaller bad (fifteen pound bags vs. twenty pound bags). This guy lives at the other end of the street from me, almost a quarter of a mile away, and he doesn't bring his dog this far down the street often anyway, as it apparently is old and has medical issues (this was all mentioned in his rant about how inconsiderate I was being). Finally, the only other person on the street who has pets (that I know of) has dogs that never actually leave their yard. 

Basically, I've been thinking about this since it happened. Am I the asshole for not buying pet safe rock salt, even if there aren't many pets in the area?