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Your Walking Your Dog And a Strange Dog Runs Up Think Fast

Discussion in 'Dog Discussion' started by Hells Bells, Mar 12, 2009.

  1. Pit Blldg

    Pit Blldg Pup

    Dunno where some of the folks live, but where I live, if I am walking my dog and my dog is leashed, and someone elses dog attacks either me or my dog, the law expressly allows my dog to protect me and to protect itself.

    So given a choice of trying to kick an aggressive dog while wearing shorts or having my dog get into a scrap, I'd rather not get bit and let my dog deal with it. Thanks to the morons who let their aggressive dogs run free, I've been through this bit one too many times.

    Of course if I don't have a reasonable belief that I am in danger or my dog is in danger, I will just pick up my dog and shoo the other dog away, or grab the other dog to prevent it from getting into trouble. Done this way too many times as well.

    But there is no way I am giving up my legal right to protect myself and/or my dog if I have a reasonable well grounded belief that I, or my dog, are in danger of being mauled. Why should I?
     
  2. coop-dog

    coop-dog Big Dog

    Happens alot were Iam picking up the smaller dog is fine ,but I all so have two bullmastiffs and they re just to big to pic up.So we have had a few tussels to say the least they generaly dont last to long when a 125# pissed off male bully grbs ahold other dogs dont tend to stick around long once i break him off.What really bugs me is when you come across people with thier off leash dog and you hollar at em to grab thier dog ,and they say oh its ok hes friendly .
     
  3. Bino

    Bino Pup

    This has actually happened to me several times. But the fist time it happened to me... this shorter bushy looking dog ran across the street while I was walking my female. Mind you that the owner of the other dog was right in front of her house in plain view. I picked up my dog by the collar and kept her real close to me but... this other bushy dog started biting my dog on her ass so I put my dog down and let her do a quick number on this other dog. The other dog was lucky that it was as bushy as it was. My dog let go to try and get a better hold because she mostly got fur on the first hold but I picked her up again and that little bushy dog took off running back across the street to its owner. I yelled at the stupid owner and told her to keep her little bushy dog on a damn leash cause next time wont be so lucky.
     
  4. I live in a pretty rual area and just about everyone lives on 10 -50 acres. This thing has happened to me twice. I do alot of roadwork with my dogs and I always keep a cell phone in one pocket and pepper spray in the other. I've had to pepper two different loose dogs. Both meant business comin' at me. One of which was another pit, that could have been real bad.:eek: I pulled my dog behind me and peppered them in the face. both times the other dog went flyin' back from where they came. You gotta do what you gotta do.
     
  5. PurePit19

    PurePit19 CH Dog

    Well when i have my dogs out walking in my neighborhood, most people know me so they know not to have their dog loose around mine. Two things with happen, it will get bit to hell or shot to hell. We have leash laws and the town isnt really against dog bites against other dog and animals. My male almost broke a stifle on an off leash German Shepard last year, the onwer was just standing there watching his dog scream in pain. He didn't say a word.
     
  6. ryan

    ryan Pup

    If the dog is far enough from us to avoid it, we do so. If the dog is inevitably going to reach us, I actually try to relax, and relax the leash. My thought is that I don't want my dog to sense that I'm tensed up, nor do I want to tighten the leash. Both things will get a dog tense, and I don't need to add to the situation.

    Our dog only responds to dogs that are her size and bigger that try to sass her, and thus far, the few loose dogs we've encountered have only come for a quick sniff. However, if the sassing starts, I'm not jumping in the middle of that fracas, especially if I don't know the dog.
     
  7. Rickf3

    Rickf3 Big Dog

    This has happened to me twice, the last time was this past winter. I was in the woods with my young daughter, wife and pregnant sister when a very large golden (fat male) charged buster.

    My wife grabbed my daughter (she's 8 and 45 pounds), my sister stood there paniced and I had to do the work.

    Buster just stands there like a dope (I wish he would help!!!), so I grab his collard, pull his head up and I put my self between the dogs kicking at it. I also have a retractable leash (for the woods and fields only) so I started slamming it down on the head of the other dog. The dog just kept trying to get around me, snarling and growling at buster. Everytime he moved, I slammed him on the head with the leash and tried to kick at it. Kicking did more to get me off ballance than prevent the dog from attacking.

    After the longestest 60 seconds you can imagine, the owner of the golden comes in to sight down the trail, dosn't even pick up her pace. She is watching me beat her dog and walks up and just grabs his collard and pulls him along.

    I'm trying to consider the fact that my daughter is there and letting the lady know that she is an a$$hole at the same time. She grined at me.

    I WISH buster would defend himself. If he would just grab the dog, I could jump on it, roll it over and we could have waited for the lady while her dog $hit it self on the trail.

    The first time it happened was in my yard and while the other dog chased my dog, I chased them both. The other owner showed up but was scared to grab his own dog. I grabbed both by the collars, lifted his off his front feet and dragged it over to him. At that point I just looked up with rage in my eyes and asked if I was ever going to see his dog in my yard again.

    I wish I lived in the country, redneck laws are easier to follow. I've since seen that dog roaming the neighborhood and it would be an easy problem to solve if I lived in the country.
     
  8. Robber

    Robber Big Dog

    There is a big old fat golden male that roams our neighborhood, too. It is a very sweet dog, but my male absloutely hates it(it is unaltered, making the free roaming even worse, although he seems like he is old and dumb to know what to do), so he goes ape$hit whenever he even sees him out the window(it will walk right up to the front porch) or worse through the fence outside. It is tempting to pick it up and drive it to AC so maybe the dumbass owners would wake up...
     
  9. About two years ago i was walking my dog Bud a boxer and a friend of mine was walking my other dog a cocker spaniel, everything is going well then this massive lab ran into the street growling, hackles up , showing teeth and heads for me. I said oh shit then Bud lunges at the dog and he heads for my friend with my little cocker in the same aggressive manner and i said Bud go get em! Then Bud charges at him bite his throat then i ran over got my dog off his neck "a break stick would have been nice" and kick the fuck out of that dog and it went running home. I believe if i didn't let Bud get him I would either have one less dog or a friend with some serious bite wounds.If your on a walk and a strange dog comes up and is being aggressive let your dog kick it's ass because that dog should be on a leash.
     
  10. jojo

    jojo Pup

    hey I know these are old threads but i'm learning here so bare with me plz.. speaking of walking your dog scenario .. we have a 5 and 3 yr old and we usually walk our dead end road and since we have lexus they want to take her with us.. we have rots,chow/rot mixed, those darn little shitpoo (that's my wording) yapping and running loose, of course my kids are first and foremost but how can protect them from watching a possible bloody dog fight even though we have only had lexus for a short time she protects her kids.. I'm really nervous about taking all of them. I have read about the break stick i'm leaning more towards a tazer for the other dog. I can carry a gun but that's adding more fuel to the fire.. and I know some of you will think this is a dumb question and I'm ready for the smack talk but if you are a parent you know where I'm coming from.. I just want to protect my dog and my kids..
     
  11. jojo

    jojo Pup

    you would definitely like it where I live ..;) I'm glad you and your family were safe that's the important thing.. :).
     
  12. widerange

    widerange Big Dog

    i roadwalk my dogs often so i have had this probelm more then a few times but the one time i really got mad bout it was when i walked my girl down this little street in my town where an event was going on. now i live in a small town and almost everyone know me and the dogs. so passed by one time and on the way back stopped to talk to some family that was at the event. my town has leash laws and my girl was on a leash but barked at a stray dog that was passing by. she stopped and i didnt think much of it but right after was approached by two cops and asked to return the dog back to my house cause people was scared of pits. I did what i was asked but was pissed off bout it. my dog was leashed, with tags and out of reach while this mutt ran freely w not even a collar on and i had to return my dog home. not sure if this is what was really asked but it was just one of the few times i have had run ins w loose dogs.
     
  13. AGK

    AGK Super duper pooper scooper Administrator

    Another fine example of breed discrimination, you had the ABPT and while it is license and up to date on it's shots, in the publics eye you are the wrong one....It sucks but is an everyday thing that happend in most every town there are APBT's:(
     
  14. briarpatch

    briarpatch Banned

    I dont walk my dog in a strange area without 2 things, my pistol and my break stick. IF there was an aggresive looking roaming dog coming at me, chances are his ass is gettin shot. I could let my dog handle business, as she would be more than eager to go but if my "pit bull" kills some ravign mongrel you think the media is going to say anything pleasant about it?, NO! Id rather just shoot the f*cker and deal with the police myself. I will not have mine or my animals well being endangered.
     
  15. AGK

    AGK Super duper pooper scooper Administrator

    briarpatch, I'm not tring to argue with you or start shit with you (not even in the thread we closed down, those wern't my intentions) but wern't you the one very much agince having a break stick when you first started posting on here just a couple of weeks ago? If you are the person I think you are, may I ask what made you change your mind about the sticks?
     
  16. briarpatch

    briarpatch Banned

    no that wasnt me. I have only been posting on here for little better than a week. I dont go anywhere without my partin stick.
     
  17. briarpatch

    briarpatch Banned

    i actually have several different types. a hard plexi/nylon stype with a griptight rubberized handle that we use on big dogs and several exotic hardwoods that we use for pups and juvenilles so as not to damage new teeth.
     
  18. p1tbull

    p1tbull Big Dog

    you can say my pit bull save my life from a wondering dog. LOL.
     
  19. briarpatch

    briarpatch Banned

    I know, that would be the reality but it wouldnt ever get published anyhow.
     
  20. outrightmike

    outrightmike CH Dog

    in my hood others believe there dogs can run free if a dog comes at me i would let my dogs handle it but at least once a week i get a dog charging mine and i pick mine up to defend these mutts from my pits.i get tired of having to but to protect the pit bull image and to keep peace in the hood thats what i do.the small dog next door doese it always and now when my dogs get off i know there going for him as last week but the owner knows why he got bit and and now has him on a chain.
     

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