This isn’t necessarily the case - they have a wild variety of coat colours and markings, ear floppiness is variable. They tend to have slightly wider snoots than their wild cousins.

This probably is still a wild one though.

Source: lived with someone who kept them!

That sounds so frustrating! Lots of inconsiderate dog owners out there. I don’t know if this is a thing where you are, but we have a thing where a yellow collar or yellow ribbon indicates a dog who needs space. Now that may not actually be true for your dogs but it might encourage some more clued-up dog owners to give you a wider berth. Doesn’t solve the overall thing you were asking about but might help a bit with dog related issues.

ETA: ‘Please can you help me to…’ would work better for this as well.

To add to this, starting with ‘can you not’ is automatically framing it to people who are bothered by this as a negative interaction because the starting premise is negative (‘don’t do the thing’).

If you reframe it in the opposite way (‘do the thing’) with a ‘please’ to soften it a bit you’ll probably have more luck, eg:

‘Please can we keep the dogs untangled?’ (‘We’ also helps here because you’re assuming some of the responsibility for keeping the dogs untangled rather than it sounding like you’re pointing a finger of blame which will get people’s backs up pretty quickly)

Not autistic but worked in complaint management for a long time and learned how to more effectively get people on side. Also have ADHD and speak without thinking a lot and it helps to understand why whatever I just blurted out annoyed someone!

If you’re into gaming at all, the National Videogame Museum in Nottingham was worth the trip - we went when it was fairly new so I’d imagine it’s been expanded a bit since.

I’m using an S while my X is off for repair - it’s struggling with some things quite a bit (really doesn’t like Borderlands 3) but it’s been great with older titles and things that have smart delivery like Sleeping Dogs remaster, Riders Republic, Battlefront 2.

Titles such as Overwatch and Sea of Thieves run fine but look appreciably worse than they did on the X.

It’s also working perfectly fine as a media machine.

It’s doing enough to keep me entertained but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss the X.

Hope that helps!

ETA: Haven’t had any problems with the hardware breaking since the 360 era (which was VERY bad) - current problem with the X was caused by a literal lightning strike so overall that is still the case.