Near dog attack while walking

[Patnono]

A couple of months ago I was coming home from an outing and because of the terrible parking situation where I live I had to walk a couple of blocks away from where I live. What happened was a dog tried to bite me. I am traumatized by this, so now I'm afraid to go for my walks. Does anyone have any ideas on what could I use to protect myself from any possible dog attacks?

 

[Keesha]

Get s dog tazer. They come variously priced in different strengths but they should work and keep you feeling safe.


This one is reasonably priced.


https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B07H5KKPSJ/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8


This one more expensive and there are ones in between


https://www.amazon.ca/Dog-Dazer-II-...0XDHJ8WS13B&psc=1&refRID=8R2BPMWM90XDHJ8WS13B


There are certain things you are supposed to do like: no eye contact, don’t wave your hands about etc., but if you’ve been attacked before this will be too difficult.


Nobody should have to feel trapped inside a house afraid to go out. I lived like that for years once and it’s not a healthy way to live.

If you can set yourself up to get counselling it might help also.

If you ever need someone to talk to about it, send me a pm.

Good luck Patnono. You can do this.

 

[Patnono]

Awwe, thank you for the information. I do feel trapped by this.

 

[rkunsaw]

Good advice from Keesha. I would add never run from a dog. You can't outrun them and the chase is what excites them.

 

[Keesha]

Awwe, thank you for the information. I do feel trapped by this.

I don’t blame you one bit and the longer you stay feeling trapped in your own home the harder it will become. Even carrying this device should help you feel safer. My girlfriend has two very large dogs , ones over 120 pounds and she uses one of these to train him since she can’t handle the dog herself. Then she got another large dog she can’t handle and has problems walking these two. She uses something similar but turned at low setting. Not my form of training but it works for her.

Good advice from Keesha. I would add never run from a dog. You can't outrun them and the chase is what excites them.

I agree completely. That advice might be great on paper only. Dogs sense fear and can become easily agitated. That advice might work better for bears but a natural reaction is fight of flight and most people will bolt.

 

[Patnono]

Thanks Larry, believe me no way would I do that, I have trouble with walking. I just did some research, you can carry a backpack and let the dog bite on it, then get away, the dogs teeth will get stuck in the backpack

 

[Patnono]

Maybe, when I was confronted by this dog that was not my instinct I guess cause I knew I couldn't out run him. I think what saved me was that luckily I had been to the store earlier and bought a couple of cans of corn and threw them at the dog.

 

[Keesha]

Thanks Larry, believe me no way would I do that, I have trouble with walking. I just did some research, you can carry a backpack and let the dog bite on it, then get away, the dogs teeth will get stuck in the backpack

Thats only good if the dog goes for the backpack. Most dogs like to attack head on. They can go after any part of you. Plus the backpack might be the very thing that prevents you from escaping the dog. I’m not trying to escalate your fear but that sounds like poor advice. Carrying a large stick would be better advice than that. Get the tasers and be on guard.
Walk tall, walk BOLD and walk deliberately fearless. It will take time to get there but you can do this. Those tasers work. Watch a video of one working but one that has been made to show how it works otherwise you’ll just trigger your own post tramautic stress.

 

[Keesha]

Maybe, when I was confronted by this dog that was not my instinct I guess cause I knew I couldn't out run him. I think what saved me was that luckily I had been to the store earlier and bought a couple of cans of corn and threw them at the dog.

See you’re smart. You’ve got this. :yes:

 

[Patnono]

You put the backpack in front towards the dog, they don't go necessarily for legs cause their looking at your face.

 

[Gary O']

Not recommended, but I jammed my fist into an attacking dog’s throat once

Very frustrating for him

Thought about grabbing the outside of his throat with my other hand
But decided to ask my buddy to call his dog off

Not fond of pit bulls

 

[Ronni]

Not recommended, but I jammed my fist into an attacking dog’s throat once

Very frustrating for him

Thought about grabbing the outside of his throat with my other hand
But decided to ask my buddy to call his dog off

Not fond of pit bulls

I hate that this incident gave you a bad opinion of pit bulls. I understand why it would Gary, I just hate it. They have such bad reputations and there is such prejudice against them, and it's largely unwarranted. The breed can be dog aggressive which is why they were bred and trained by unscrupulous folks for fighting, but in fact are not people aggressive at all, unless trained that way, or so heinously abused or inbred that they are completely paranoid and crazy.

I have a dozen or more friends with Pitties, one of my boys has one, and in every single case they are gentle, sweet, amazing with kids and infants and are themselves the biggest babies you can imagine! My son's dog Ziggy is absolutely terrified of my two rescue chihuahuas, who are a mere 3 pounds each, and together aren't even as big as Ziggy's head!! if they're gated in a room, Ziggy won't even walk by the door! He sits, cowering and shaking in the hall, waiting for Cameron to come guide him past the vicious monsters on the other side of the gate! :lol:

 

[Gary O']

I hate that this incident gave you a bad opinion of pit bulls. I understand why it would Gary, I just hate it. They have such bad reputations and there is such prejudice against them, and it's largely unwarranted. The breed can be dog aggressive which is why they were bred and trained by unscrupulous folks for fighting, but in fact are not people aggressive at all, unless trained that way, or so heinously abused or inbred that they are completely paranoid and crazy.

I have a dozen or more friends with Pitties, one of my boys has one, and in every single case they are gentle, sweet, amazing with kids and infants and are themselves the biggest babies you can imagine! My son's dog Ziggy is absolutely terrified of my two rescue chihuahuas, who are a mere 3 pounds each, and together aren't even as big as Ziggy's head!! if they're gated in a room, Ziggy won't even walk by the door! He sits, cowering and shaking in the hall, waiting for Cameron to come guide him past the vicious monsters on the other side of the gate! :lol:

Fully understand
I misstated
Shoulda said ‘trained’ pit bulls

I was starting to post most of what you wrote about the ‘training’ of that breed

We have some folks down the path that have two pit bulls, one a stray
Absolute sweethearts
One, the stray, tends to stray
To our place
Looking for grub
And faces to lick
Once we’ve fully sated his hunger, and his tongue is wore out on my hands, I text his folks
Seems some adopted strays tend to harbor the roaming bent
He’ll be back

The lad that has the ‘trained’ guard dogs (three of ‘em) didn’t know the one was outa the barn
The barn contains quite the state of the art hydroponic mary jane operation

That dog came after me, knocked me to the ground
All I had was my hands as I wasn’t carrying
If I was, I woulda took him out…no question

 

[Trade]

I hate pit bulls. They should be banned IMO. There's a reason Pit Bulls are the guard dog of choice for drug dealers everywhere. They have been specifically bred to be vicious aggressive killers. They represent less than 10% of the dog population yet they are responsible for the overwhelming majority of dog attacks that result in serious injury or death.

 

[Gary O']

I hate pit bulls. They should be banned IMO. There's a reason Pit Bulls are the guard dog of choice for drug dealers everywhere. They have been specifically bred to be vicious aggressive killers. They represent less than 10% of the dog population yet they are responsible for the overwhelming majority of dog attacks that result in serious injury or death.

Training, early on, don't help

They are very skittish, nervous...to the point of being very afraid of their own shadows

This gets turned around with improper training

Whatever happened to Doberman Pincers being the evil dog of choice?
I mean they even look like Satan

 

[Trade]

I used to commute back and forth to work by bike. And I got chased by a lot of dogs. There's something about a bicycle that seems to set them off. I tried carrying pepper spray but later just went to filling one of my two water bottles with ammonia. Squirting them in the face with that generally would keep them at bay until I biked out of their territory. Then one hot afternoon on the way home from work I reached down to take a drink of water and got the wrong bottle. You haven't lived until you've taken a mouth full of ammonia while biking on a hot summer afternoon in Florida. After that I just kept water in both my bottles. What I found was that squirting a dog in the face with water was just as effective.

I don't know how well squirting them with a water bottle would work while walking. When you are biking along at 12-15 mph you get out of what the dog considers his territory fairly fast. But walking at 3-4 mph it's a different story. I haven't had any problem where we walk with dogs. But I have seen people walking and carrying a big stick. I think that would be the option I would take if I did have that problem. Come to think of it, isn't that what Teddy Roosevelt recommended? "Walk softly, but carry a big stick"?

 

[Gary O']

I used to commute back and forth to work by bike. And I got chased by a lot of dogs.

Yeah, bikes are dog magnets

Been chased when I was a kid
Biked to town
Same dog
Different day
I learned to stop
Get off my bike, walk a bit
Took the fun out of it for him

Been around mean dogs all my life
When a teen, one came at me
Medium size, skinny, junk yard type
Grabbed both sides of his face when he went after mine
Threw him down

Really screwed up his train of thought

 

[RadishRose]

You're right, it does. A water-pistol keeps cats away from Xmas trees, too.

 

[Trade]

Yeah, bikes are dog magnets

Been chased when I was a kid
Biked to town
Same dog
Different day
I learned to stop
Get off my bike, walk a bit
Took the fun out of it for him

I've noticed that too. When you get off the bike, they often will stop in their tracks. I think it might be because they realize you're a human and not some kind of herd animal.

 

[Keesha]

I've noticed that too. When you get off the bike, they often will stop in their tracks. I think it might be because they realize you're a human and not some kind of herd animal.

I agree but they also realize the games over because you’ve just stood your ground. Maybe in their mind they figure you’re already running therefore representing scared prey.

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Ive never in my life been attacked by a dog so never feel the need to defend myself when I go out but if I had been attacked and because of that was afraid to leave my house then I’d definitely reconsider.

 

[Keesha]

You put the backpack in front towards the dog, they don't go necessarily for legs cause their looking at your face.

I again, don’t think it’s sound advice. I’ve hiked plenty of times outside with backpacks on and they are made for just that; to be on your back. Flipping a backpack to be worn at the front doesn’t work the same and the chances of the dog biting the knapsack and getting its teeth stuck is ‘way out there.’ There’s some great advice online but this isn’t some of it.
Note: none of it said meaning to offend

 

[JimW]

A couple of months ago I was coming home from an outing and because of the terrible parking situation where I live I had to walk a couple of blocks away from where I live. What happened was a dog tried to bite me. I am traumatized by this, so now I'm afraid to go for my walks. Does anyone have any ideas on what could I use to protect myself from any possible dog attacks?

A small can of pepper spray is a great thing to carry not only for dog attacks but for people attacks as well. You can buy it on Amazon or at your local sporting goods store for about $10. My wife and I both carry a can with us when we walk the dogs. I've had to use it once when we were walking our dogs along our usual path and were approached by a Pit Bull and a Rottweiler both off leash and no owner in sight. I tried yelling at them to get them to go away but they kept coming and our German Shepherd was getting uneasy. I knew it wouldn't be long before something happened, so I sprayed the Pit Bull in the face and thankfully they both took off running. I felt bad I had to spray them, but I wasn't taking any chances of me, my wife or one of our dogs getting hurt. Shame on the idiot owner who let these two dogs run loose.

I hate pit bulls. They should be banned IMO. There's a reason Pit Bulls are the guard dog of choice for drug dealers everywhere. They have been specifically bred to be vicious aggressive killers. They represent less than 10% of the dog population yet they are responsible for the overwhelming majority of dog attacks that result in serious injury or death.

I am a dog lover, but agree with you 100%. I don't like Pit Bulls one bit.

 

[applecruncher]

All you pit bull defenders might want to take a look at the discussion we had last year...pay close attention to post #13 from Lara - best post in the thread. nthego:

https://www.seniorforums.com/showthread.php/35848-Pit-Bull-attacks-2-month-old?highlight=bulls

So, as far as all these pit bulls that attack people, you really think they just have bad owners who don't train them correctly? SERIOUSLY??

 

[applecruncher]

Whatever happened to Doberman Pincers being the evil dog of choice?
I mean they even look like Satan

I have no issue with Doberman.
Pit bull is another story.

Then there's the Presa canario:

^^
If you're planning on robbing a drug dealer or a jewelry store you might run into a couple of these guys. Just sayin' :whome:

 

[Keesha]

A small can of pepper spray is a great thing to carry not only for dog attacks but for people attacks as well. You can buy it on Amazon or at your local sporting goods store for about $10. My wife and I both carry a can with us when we walk the dogs. I've had to use it once when we were walking our dogs along our usual path and were approached by a Pit Bull and a Rottweiler both off leash and no owner in sight. I tried yelling at them to get them to go away but they kept coming and our German Shepherd was getting uneasy. I knew it wouldn't be long before something happened, so I sprayed the Pit Bull in the face and thankfully they both took off running. I felt bad I had to spray them, but I wasn't taking any chances of me, my wife or one of our dogs getting hurt. Shame on the idiot owner who let these two dogs run loose.



I am a dog lover, but agree with you 100%. I don't like Pit Bulls one bit.

Pepper spray is a good idea that I forgot to add. It might even be better than a stun gun. Their sense of smell is far superior
so would be more effective of them. Good idea Jim.