What happened next surprised the heck out of Oliver. He expected that the woman would suddenly try to protect him. But he never imagined that it would be the dog instead.
"Muffin, where are you going?" the woman yelled out at her dog, which broke from its leash and went sprinting towards Alan.
The woman and Oliver stood there in stunned silence as they watched the somewhat small dog leap up and begin mauling Alan. It was so bad that Oliver even thought he saw blood.
Realizing the enormity of what was happening, the woman began to sprint over to Alan. "Muffin, stop!" She couldn't believe what she was seeing. Her sweet, innocent dog was nearly killing this man in front of her. Muffin (who was a female dog, by the way) had never acted like this before. She was a nice dog.
Oliver just stood there, watching Alan getting violently attacked by the dog and the woman trying to get her dog to stop, and he realized that not only could he control the minds of people (well, women), but he could also control dogs too (female ones).
He wondered what other animals he could control, and whether or not the animals had to be female.