Well, it finally happened. During my routine “evening walk the dog” to and around a park close to home we were attacked by a german shepard. The owner takes it off leash in the park even though he clearly doesn’t have control of the dog. The dog saw us before the owner (at least 50 yards), attacked my dog, and the totally winded owner managed to catch up to the three of us quite a bit later. A couple of bites (german shaphard to my shiba) that did no harm due to the thick shiba coat and my intervention.
The first words out of is mouth – “don’t worry, there’s no danger” and I lost my temper, saying something unrepeatable in this forum – but along the lines of “only an idiot would say something like that after his dog just attacked with obvious intent and is still uncontrolled”.
In this park we have had encounters previously with this and two other dogs frequently off leash (doberman, boxer) and always politely demand they put the dogs on leash, so I was not totally surprised this happened.
Tomorrow I’m calling the local police animal control to discuss and ask for guidance. Any other suggestions?
Not sure what the FIRE connection is – but if I were working I wouldn’t be walking the dog...
The first words out of is mouth – “don’t worry, there’s no danger” and I lost my temper, saying something unrepeatable in this forum – but along the lines of “only an idiot would say something like that after his dog just attacked with obvious intent and is still uncontrolled”.
In this park we have had encounters previously with this and two other dogs frequently off leash (doberman, boxer) and always politely demand they put the dogs on leash, so I was not totally surprised this happened.
Tomorrow I’m calling the local police animal control to discuss and ask for guidance. Any other suggestions?
Not sure what the FIRE connection is – but if I were working I wouldn’t be walking the dog...