I eat big dogs for breakfast!
While I was out walking my dog with EH last night, a pitbull and a pitbull-mix broke out of their yard and charged us. They literally broke right through a latched gate!
They were clearly after my dog, because EH says they ignored her completely. And I'm sure it didn't help either that my little dog (11 kilos, slightly chubby spaniel/poodle cross) threw herself to the end of her leash and began screaming in a high-pitched strangled kind of way. She couldn't have looked or sounded more like prey if she'd tried.
I stepped into their path, pointed at them and said, "HEY!"
They both swung off to either side of me and started circling, which left me turning around, trying to stare down both of them at the same time. Every time I confronted one, it'd veer off, but then the second one would come in from the other side, trying to get at my dog from behind.
It was a very tense thirty seconds or so, but then the dogs' owners showed up. Each of the guys grabbed one dog and took off with it.
I'm very proud of myself. No one's eating MY dog for dinner, if I can help it!
They were clearly after my dog, because EH says they ignored her completely. And I'm sure it didn't help either that my little dog (11 kilos, slightly chubby spaniel/poodle cross) threw herself to the end of her leash and began screaming in a high-pitched strangled kind of way. She couldn't have looked or sounded more like prey if she'd tried.
I stepped into their path, pointed at them and said, "HEY!"
They both swung off to either side of me and started circling, which left me turning around, trying to stare down both of them at the same time. Every time I confronted one, it'd veer off, but then the second one would come in from the other side, trying to get at my dog from behind.
It was a very tense thirty seconds or so, but then the dogs' owners showed up. Each of the guys grabbed one dog and took off with it.
I'm very proud of myself. No one's eating MY dog for dinner, if I can help it!