I can’t help but feel that poor Rosie keeps getting a disproportionate amount of blame in the whole thing.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure her presence did not help. But I think the people represented far more of a threat than the dog ever did. And if the dog had not been there, I’ll bet something else would have set off off a bad chain of events.
Between the scenes with the farrier and the CPS visit on that same day, the dog was probably an afterthought.