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reading your story makes me sad, distraught etc. etc. as a fellow small dog owner (my guy is 11 pounds) i feel your pain.
by your account, i think you were totally in the right. i'm not sure what else you could have done.
shame on the owner of that dog. as others have already stated, her attitude is just inviting another situation, possibly of larger magnitude.
as far as the law goes, my friend's dog (mini pinscher) was attacked by another dog (pit bull). animal control was called the day after the attack, they investigated, confiscated the dog for a quarantine period to determine whether or not it had rabies (since the dog did not have a collar and was not registered in atlanta), issued a citation/ticket to the dog owner. the police were not involved, as the bad dog's owner was pretty receptive and apologetic (since the dog "got out" of the house).
at the very least, it would seem to me that you should contact your local animal control/services to have something done about that particular incident.
for what you can do in the future... keep your wits about you as you did. you seemed to do exactly what was called for - enough force for the dog to stop, but didn't injure it. hell, you didn't even injure that dog's owner!
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