Walking the Dog on Ladygrove

And no, that is not some bizarre euphemism. I'm getting steadily more annoyed with the way that other dog walkers look at me when I'm walking Buddy round the estate. I turn a corner, and they immediately call their dog to heel, pointedly put it on the lead and walk the long way around you.
Possibly I'm being paranoid, but they look at me as though it is my fault that their dog's freedom is being curtailed, and that I have no right to be out with my dog at the same time as they are out. (No more right to be on God's clean earth than a weasel). Face it, if your dog cannot be trusted to be out without a lead, then don't walk it around a housing estate with lots of other dogs, cats and children.