Strong was across the yard when he turned around and saw the encounter. His surveillance video caught it on camera.

A San Antonio Veteran is furious at a mailman for allegedly pepper spraying his dog, and then threatening to pepper spray him. He says his non-violent service animal did not need to be sprayed.

Christopher Strong adopted the Rottweiler mix when the dog was just three months old.

“He serves as my service animal to keep me calm, and to help me with my anxiety,” he said.

The veteran who served three tours overseas has PTSD and said his four-legged friend is very-well trained. But in the eyes of a mailman on a recent Saturday, the dog was a problem.

“And he starts going like this towards the dog with the mace,” Strong said. “I see the dogs hair stand up on his back at the corner of my eye.”

Strong was across the yard when he turned around and saw the encounter. His surveillance video caught it on camera.

“As soon as I call him over, he looks at me and he looks back at the mailman, and the mailman starts spraying the mace,” Strong said.

Strong said he told the mailman to put the mace down and get off his property, but he said the mailman called police. Strong said the officer responded to his residence.

“He looked at the dog and said, ‘yeah this dog doesn’t seem to be a threat to anybody,'” he said. WFAA Dallas