Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : Hi,

Just yesterday I was out with my girlfriend and our puppy and we stumbled upon 3 moose about 100-200 yards away standing in a tight group. They were all facing us (clearly having seen us) and me being unsure if I can trust our puppy to stay calm and collected and not potentially make the moose feel territorial and stir up some shit, I said "Let's go back. Those are moose, and we shouldn't mess with them."  to which my girlfriend (having seen no moose in her life) says "Woww, no! Let's stay and look at them!" and starts walking a bit closer, at which point I again try to interject with "No, for real. Don't mess with moose, they're not nice animals. I'm turning around and leaving right now and you should come too." at which point I grabbed our puppy and started leaving, turning back toward her and saying "Come!" once before we more briskly walk away.

On the walk back when she a few minutes later (fuming and being pissed) joined us I explained what I expected could happen (moose being somewhat territorial by nature, puppy starts barking, moose gets testy, get closer and something bad happens) and she doesn't address this at all and just says "I can't believe you did that!"

Now my girlfriend is annoyed at me for "abandoning" her. Her first argument was that the situation was fine and that people go closer to moose all the time, but then when I pointed out that other people doing risky stuff is no excuse to do risky things she switched to that I abandoned her and that I'm an asshole for it. 

From my perspective, if she wanted to stay, fine, she's free to make her own decisions as long as she's informed that they're risky. But I needed to get our unpredictable puppy out of there that might have caused a dangerous situation simply because he doesn't know better and could have endangered us all.

I do understand her point of view. Being 'abandoned' is not a pleasant experience no matter the circumstances, but from my point of view I told her that we were turning around and leaving and why about 3 times before actually doing so, and she decided against it and made her own decision. I don't feel like I'm obliged to make the same mistakes as her just because she doesn't want to follow my lead.

Am I the asshole? I feel like I probably am an asshole for being so unfeeling about it, but at the same time I do not regret in the least how I acted because I've lived in moose-heavy areas before and I know they're nothing to play around with and am not about to get peer pressured into making a stupid decision.