Sun Jun 30, 2013, 03:21 PM
pnwmom (44,374 posts)
Our 30 lb. poodle mix just survived an attack on a hiking trail
by a pair of larger dogs -- one that looked like a German Shepherd, and the other like a pit bull.
Both dogs came running at our little dog -- who was a few feet away from my son -- but the owners were able to call the Shepherd back. My son had to kick the attacking pit bull off our dog, and then he left the owners with the shepherd while he went chasing after the pit and our dog, who had run away in terror. Fortunately, our dog is an olympic level runner, and she left the pit in the dust.
My son realized as he was carrying our shaking dog down the trail that he had blood on his hands from our dog's wound. He's on his way to the 24 Animal Hospital now. Unfortunately, he didn't realize she was bitten till the other owners had disappeared.
Ironically, our dog and our son were probably safer today because she wasn't being restrained on a leash. If my son had been trying to keep her restrained, she still would have been at the mercy of the pit, and my son probably would have had to intervene again. Instead, she ran.
The other dog owners had been out hiking with three dogs, by the way -- clearly too much for them to handle.
Dog owners: don't let your dog off leash unless you KNOW that dog isn't aggressive and you KNOW that he is under voice control.
My son had a machete attached to his backpack for cutting back brush, but he could have used it on a dog if he'd had to.
P.S. She's out of surgery now. I just talked to the vet. She said it was a serious bite wound with "lots of ripping and tearing" involved, through several layers of skin. The wound was both deep and wide, she said.
I'm that much more thankful my son didn't get hurt and that things weren't even worse. I'm frustrated that the other owners don't know how much damage their dog did, and that they can't be held responsible.
Sissy liberals and their sissy dogs.... :whatever:
Hiking trail to me means wilderness and absolute freedom....sissy liberals and their sissy dogs can't survive in a "free" society.
The other dog owners had been out hiking with three dogs, by the way -- clearly too much for them to handle.
Hiking trial=paved walkway in park.
Was it a white-brown poodle mix? Was the pit bull black?
I think we know what the verdict should be on the DUmp.
Not a poodle.
The DUmmy called it a "poodle mix", which means a mongrel.
DUmmies don't like to use that word.
They think it's disrespectful to their president.