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Re: [RC] dog attacks! - AmyOr any breed of dog who won't stop and I don't blame you. I have pit bulls and I did pit bull rescue. I was very selective with the pits I would place and always chose for the low prey drive, low arousal, low animal aggression, NO human aggression ones. They are out there. My big old male pit Nitro is a therapy dog and just an awesome lug of a dog. He's actually been attacked by two dogs when we've been out walking and I've been able to call him off and grab the attacking dog (cocker spaniel and malamute/shepherd mix--owner called her a wolf mix, but I don't think she was). The cocker he didn't even do anything, I grabbed his face and told him not to do a thing and he just sat down and looked at me with a "well then you do something please" look. The cocker was biting at his butt and then stopped and ran around to his head and was just looking at him like, "Why won't you fight or run or something?!" The mal mix escaped her pen and was guarding the porch of our neighbors house like it was her own. Nitro was running up to the house like he did every night to go see the kids and eat some cheese while I took care of my horse (it was where I boarded him at the time) and the mal mix attacked. They did start to fight because I wasn't right there, but I called Nitro off and he stopped, but the mal wouldn't. I had to grab her collar and my neighbor heard it and called Nitro inside the house. Luckily the mal was really good with humans and didn't transfer her aggression to me. Her owner heard it and came and got her, he didn't know where she had been. I was attacked by a mastiff, an owned one, never was attacked or even biten by any of my rescue dogs. But being attacked by a dog is absolutely horrible and my situation was another one where the owner wouldn't do anything to help me. That made it even worse. I had to grab the dog's collar and hand him to her after he'd attacked me. Unbelievable how some people act or refuse to. It does make you so much more afraid of dogs though, so I've been watching this thread with interest. As a kid, we used to ride past two dobe mixes that would chase us, course we would run as fast as we could by the house, I think we thought it was a game, our horses too luckily, geesh, dumb stuff you do as a kid. One day I didn't feel like running by the house and the dogs didn't chase, amazing how that worked :)! Amy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Truman Prevatt" <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Ed Kilpatrick" <whytrotfarms@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 6:51 PM Subject: Re: [RC] dog attacks! If I happen over another pit bull encounter I hate say it but I'm on the ground with the knife open and if he doesn't back off I will have no mercy. I will not have another such encounter. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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