Another attack: Such sweet dogs, NOT!

Nosy Bee-54 said:
When I was a kid, one afternoon I was running around playing with friends. This neighbor was washing his car with his German Shepard nearby resting. For whatever, reason the dog ran after us and chose me to bite in the rear end. From that day forward, I swore off dogs of any kind.

Now, when I walk at the park and someone with a dog is going in the opposite direction, I ALWAYS step off the concrete path. Furthermore, I noticed there are two people who walk pitbulls. These dogs have a mean expression and a whole lot of muscle. I have a lot of respect for them. So I give them an even wider berth.

When I see people walking in my neighborhood, some carry a stick. It a defensive tool to make sure they don't get bite by someone's dog who is not fenced in as required by city ordinance.

Anyway, the law needs to do something about parents who expose their children to injury or death just so they can have mean dogs.
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Did the dog bite break the skin? There are dogs that just want to join the fun. We had a german shepherd mix, and when a kid would come to play with our kids she would escort the kid into the area where the kids were playing by holding their hands very gently until they joined in the play. One day a new kid jerked her arm away and the dogs teeth kind of scuffed her arm, I got a phone call from the father. I said "if it helps any the dog has had all her shots and you could put her in quarantine, cause she is not going anywhere". That was the last I heard about that.
The only person she hated was anyone in a uniform. We had to hang the mailbox on the fence so the mailman didn't have to actually come in the yard. I did find out she was protective of all of us one day when the insurance man came to collect she let him in the yard but stopped him at the walkway from the garage to the front door. I heard someone calling me went outside and there they were he said"she wouldn't let me go any farther", oh dear so I told her it was OK, and she trotted happily into the house. Then that dog embarrassed me for the first and only time. She was a medium sized dog 53 pounds , she turned and planted her feet on his shoulders and gave him, a big kiss. I guess she was trying to make up for growling at him.
 

Whilst growing up in the late 1950s and early 1960s, we lived in a area that had dogs running loose in the neighborhoods. I got bit twice while riding my bike. Both attacks were by non rabid dogs.

We'd witness rabid dogs foaming from the mouth too. So, yes, we experienced some bad times with dogs. I still fear full grown dogs and have never owned one.

I love them when they are puppies though! Even my niece's 11 Doberman puppies were adorable when little pups. All but one were given to friends/co-workers. And then Athena was 'fixed'. Zeus missed those midnight visits, I'm sure. :cool:
 

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The woman in the article says, "The dogs are good dogs. We just had them bathed yesterday. I was asleep and my daughter heard the commotion," Margaret Morales added.

If that's a good dog I would hate to see a bad one. Four women couldn't get if off the baby until one got a knife and stabbed it.

I don't think the Pit bull problem is bad owners who don't know how to train dogs. If that were the case it would be quite a coincidence that most of the bad owners had Pit bulls.* I think there's a bad strain that was bred into Pit bulls when they were used for fighting and it comes out unexpectedly in some Pit bulls. Not all, and that's why many people have sweet loving Pits. The problem is you can't tell if you have one of the sweet ones or not until it's too late.

* Pit bulls cause 67% of deaths by dogs.https://www.dogsbite.org/
 
Big, aggressive dogs running around in the Uk or Canada might be a problem but I don't think it should be much of an issue in the US. Seems like most folks there carry some sort of gun so when that crazy aggressive 4 legged beast comes at you just "give him one between the eyes." Sorry doggie lovers but when it comes to mad dogs it's either me or them!
 
We don't have loose dogs roaming around here at all... in fact the last time I saw a roaming dog..in fact a pack of dogs was in Spain where it's a common sire.

if a dog is wandering alone around here, someone will take it in and search for it's owners..
 
When my mom was in her 80s, she said she couldn't go the pharmacy, because of the "dogs". I figured it was a couple of dogs. Ya know how those old people get!!!! I was visiting her, when the "dogs" showed up. It was a pack of ten+ dogs. If you opened the door, the pack would attack you, growling, lots of teeth, etc. We had to get the town to round them up.
 

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