I finally was able to find a job close to where I live, the hours are ok 5:45 pm to 2:30 am. I am 5 minutes from home which lets me go home at night and walk Romeo.
When I got home this morning, I decided to take him out, because he had not wanted to go out at 10:30 pm... off we went on our merry way when we had to round off a corner and too late, in a blink of an eye we were surrounded by 3 large dogs unleashed, I immediately put Romeo in a heel position next to me, we could not go anywhere as they actually surrounded us, they were barking, snarling, bodies so stiff. I remained calm for Romeo, but was scared out of my mind, I did not want to make any moves that would provoke anything, all of a sudden out of the corner of my eye, I saw one jump up in the air, I went down grabbed Romeo and covered him with my body, I felt the dogs teeth grip the back of my arm, ( I wanted to scream, but I did not want to scare Romeo) by now he is also wanting to kill someone, and somehow I guess I must have loosen my grip on him, because he jumped on the other dog, grabbed him by the jaw and would not let go, all I could see was this little white dog being swung from one side to the other, all of a sudden I heard a woman yell: off. When she saw the other dog was scratching my back, she screamed even louder which made the dogs act crazier, Romeo is still clinging to the dog's jaw, somehow he managed to swing him across the yard and went for his face, the woman's husband came running and manage to gain control of the dogs. I was livid, Romeo has a puncture wound on his mouth, and me too on my right arm and my back is scratched up pretty bad.
The dogs belonged to the couple, who let them go out and do their business that late at night because no one is out... what the hell!!! someone was watching and came out with an emergency kit, cleaned me up, let me borrow a t-shirt as mine was shredded, but all I could think of was my sweet boy. They were so apologetic, saying they did not know how could that have happened that the dogs are usually very sweet and friendly.
Long story short, we went to the emergency vet, and I am reporting the couple and their dogs, as I was told it was not the first time they have bitten someone.
Now I need advice what to do so Romeo does not become reactive, this afternoon he wanted to kill every large dog he encountered no matter how far they were or if on leash or not. I don't act any differently, but he goes crazy.
My poor baby, thank God he is okay physically anyway... any advise would be greatly appreciated
edited to add: this afternoon the dogs were no longer in the apartment.