Story? pretty sure this doesn’t belong here, as it’s neither a complaint nor a confession.
took my two big doggos on an easy 5 yesterday. At one point, a little bull terrier runs out from someone’s yard to meet us at the street, and immediately starts going after my dogs. My dogs are much bigger than the other dog, and I immediately start thinking (1) i don’t want the other dog to get hurt; (2) i don’t want to catch a stray tooth; (3) i don’t really want to wind up at the vet.
The next few minutes were just an exercise in the bull terrier making a charge, getting his butt whipped, and me trying to drag my dogs off down the street, only to make it a few steps before repeating the process. I finally decided to just kick at this thing, since it clearly wasn’t being deterred from my pups, and I got him square under the jaw literally as his owner is walking out of the house to figure out what was going on. I honestly was surprised it didn’t knock the dog out, but that was pretty much the end of it.
I don’t really care all that much for my sake, but I’m annoyed about this whole thing because one of my dogs is already absolutely nuts when we go running, and this didn’t help at all. I hope the other doggo didn’t get too torn up, but I have no idea what I’m actually supposed to do in that situation.
Anyways, that’s the second run-in with loose dogs I’ve had in the last week- feel relatively fortunate that nothing bad has happened. Hoping for some more non-eventful runs here in the future, please.
Story? pretty sure this doesn’t belong here, as it’s neither a complaint nor a confession.
took my two big doggos on an easy 5 yesterday. At one point, a little bull terrier runs out from someone’s yard to meet us at the street, and immediately starts going after my dogs. My dogs are much bigger than the other dog, and I immediately start thinking (1) i don’t want the other dog to get hurt; (2) i don’t want to catch a stray tooth; (3) i don’t really want to wind up at the vet.
The next few minutes were just an exercise in the bull terrier making a charge, getting his butt whipped, and me trying to drag my dogs off down the street, only to make it a few steps before repeating the process. I finally decided to just kick at this thing, since it clearly wasn’t being deterred from my pups, and I got him square under the jaw literally as his owner is walking out of the house to figure out what was going on. I honestly was surprised it didn’t knock the dog out, but that was pretty much the end of it.
I don’t really care all that much for my sake, but I’m annoyed about this whole thing because one of my dogs is already absolutely nuts when we go running, and this didn’t help at all. I hope the other doggo didn’t get too torn up, but I have no idea what I’m actually supposed to do in that situation.
Anyways, that’s the second run-in with loose dogs I’ve had in the last week- feel relatively fortunate that nothing bad has happened. Hoping for some more non-eventful runs here in the future, please.