I literally did this while walking in the woods the other day. A man asked me how I was and his dog was off the leash, and so I told him I would be better if he followed the etiquette of the trail and kept his dog on a leash.

He didn’t seem to like that.

However I saw him on the trail with the same dog a few days later on the leash

So I’m not sure why this is a problem other than if people are worried that people won’t like them.