Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : Hello! I feel a lot of guilt for this because I do not know if this was the right thing to do or not. I was walking my dog and came back from the dog park ( I live in the lower west side of NYC). I came across a dog tied up to a bike post, and I have never came across that before. The leash was long enough for her to walk into the middle of the street, and I was nervous of her either: getting hit, being stolen, running away, or if someone just abandoned her. I didn't see any tags on her either, so I decided the best thing to do was wait. I had my dog sit on the other side of me about 3 feet away from her, I did not pet or feed her because I did not know the dog. I waited 20ish minutes. I was willing to wait the entire day to see if she had been abandoned because I am a student and it was the weekend. Then a woman came out of a grocery store that was on the other end of the street and looked really mad at me and asked what I was doing. I told her that I was worried if she would get hurt or abandoned so I wanted to wait for a potential owner. She got really really mad and told me to leave and that her dog was fine and that I was stupid. She looked really angry at me. My mom and sister told me to never leash dogs outside because they could get stolen or hurt, and my friends have told me that they have found abandoned tied up dogs. I would never hurt a dog. Should I have not done that? Or should I mind my own business?