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Posted : 11/13/2006 6:13:10 PM

Hubby was in yesterday and we took Buck for the 1 1/2 mile walk. Well, we turned off 4th onto Greenbriar, got about half way to the end (it dead ends into 6th. don't knw where 5th got lost) and a woman was out in her front yard with a dog tht looked a lot lot a snauzzie. Well, here comes that dog running and barking at us and she is hollering "Pepper, get back here, come here Pepper, no Pepper. She finally gets hold of it and we hurry on our way. Got down 6th and turn on Poinsettia (it also dead ends into 6th) and a little yipper dog dog comes under a fence and runs up all bristled up and barking at Buck. We are trying to shoo it off and I notice a German Shepherd barking and jumping up at the gate in another yard. The houses all have huge yards and do sit back from the almost one lane street (is really narrow. and the yards are full of live oak trees.Just about time time I told hubby I thought that shepherd could get over the fence---it did and came charging out towards us with a kid running behind it yelling "Jackson, stop." I thought he and Buck were going to rumble, Buck would not back down. All the snarling, etc. The kid got hold of him and led him off.
THEN a rat terrier, about half grown runs out. But she is all tail wags and just wants to be friendly. But by then we were not so sure Buck would want to be friendly as this was the 4th dog to run out at him. It took some doing, but I shooed her back.
These back streets have no sidewalks, very little traffic and we are walking Buck on a leash in the middle of the little narrow streets. I think it is a sad affair when in that short distance, 4 dogs run at him, 3 acting like they want to take him on, and only the little rat terrier pup acting like she just wants to play. We had not walked him for a while because of that Pit Bull getting after him a few weeks ago, but we have not seen it out, so started again. Now i am almost scared to walk him again.

The little yipper dog (couldn't tell what breed it was, probably a mix) would not have been a problem Buck could have shaken it to death, but i would hate that. The Snauzzer looking dog was a good size and that would have been a fight, and the shephered probably could have either killed or badly hurt my almost 12 year old golden retriever. And the little rat terrier was not threat, but we was worried Buck may have just had his fill of dogs running at him and grab her and hurt her. Why in the world don't people make sure their dogs are inside a fenced yard (that is adequate) or house, not only for the safety of dogs being walked, but also for their own safety from bigger dogs, cars, etc.

Mark

Posted : 11/13/2006 6:36:57 PM

post should have been titled"Damn People!"

sandra_slayton

Posted : 11/13/2006 8:57:34 PM

post should have been titled"Damn People!"

You are right and I thought of it just a little while ago. You can't blame the dogs because their owners don't take the time to make sure they are safely in the house or fenced yeard. Running free is a big threat to their lives. I am just getting so darn mad that i can't get out and walk my dog without fear of an attack.That little rat terrier seems the sweetest thing and i am scared she is going to run out to a dog running free that may attack her. She has come out to us before, so appears she is loose a lot.

Xerxes

Posted : 11/13/2006 9:57:41 PM

ORIGINAL: MhadDog

post should have been titled"Damn People!"

Yup, you got it right!

jennie_c_d

Posted : 11/13/2006 10:26:25 PM

I just LOVE that. Especially when it's KIDS that are sent to retrieve dogs that outmuscle most adults. It's fabutastic.

sandra_slayton

Posted : 11/13/2006 11:49:02 PM

I was so scared Buck and that dog would really get into a rumble and that kid would get hurt. I was just glad hubby was along and that would have left me free to pick up a big stick (and there were several) on the side of the road. I will not be walking him on that street again. I don't think Buck woul have stood much chance against that dog, and I know if he had taken it into his head that little rat terrier was "after him also", he could have killed her with one shake of his head and that scared me also. She is just the cutest little thing, all wiggle butt.

cairnterriers

Posted : 11/14/2006 7:48:55 AM

That's horrible! I have dogs charging out at us all the time. *Most* of them are restrained, though.

dogslife

Posted : 11/14/2006 9:22:02 AM

Is your dog afraid of umbrellas? If not, then carry a big golf type umbrella. Use it as needed... Might help rather than relying on the idiot owners of all of these dogs. If it weren't so maddening it sounds like a scene out of a Steve Martin movie...

ron2

Posted : 11/14/2006 8:57:38 PM

Welcome to my town.

greg petry

Posted : 11/14/2006 9:07:53 PM

Glad to here you made it ok! sorry this happened I don't know how I would have handled all those dogs. =)

chelsea_b

Posted : 11/14/2006 9:46:23 PM

Ugh, I'm so scared of this kind of situation, that I don't walk Cherokee nearly as much as I'd like. There's pretty much always at least one loose dog in my neighborhood, so a turn onto the wrong street and it'd be a dog fight. The last time I walked her (a couple weeks ago [

]), this big shepherd mix started harassing us. Now, Cherokee is a very dog-aggressive dog, so I'm more afraid for the other dog most of the time, but this guy was so determined to get at us, I was really afraid for Cherokee. I was so panicked, and just started screaming at this other dog to get away from us, and go home, but he just kept ignoring me, and getting closer and closer. Then these two people on rollerblades were going by, and I asked them to PLEASE somehow help me, but they just totally ignored me (and there's no way they could have not heard me, they looked right at me, were 10 feet away and I was YELLING). The dog was 2 feet away at that point, but just sniffing around in front of us, not looking at Cherokee, and I'm still so impressed that Cherokee wasn't lunging and snarling, but my guess is she was either just as terrified as me, or felt like I was in control, since I was yelling at him. At that point we just turned and ran like hell. He stopped chasing us after a couple hundred feet.

I just don't understand why people allow their dogs to be loose in the neighborhood. Even if THEIR dog is nice, and won't do anything, they could easily be hit by a car, or attacked by a meaner dog. Cherokee's gotten out of this house twice, once when we first moved in, she opened the screen door herself (I had no idea that if you pushed it, it would open) and ran after another dog, second time someone left the screen door unlatched, and she just went out to sniff around. But she's surely never been out without anyone noticing, and I sure wouldn't leave her out. I just don't get it. [&:]

sandra_slayton

Posted : 11/15/2006 2:40:38 AM

i was sowrried about that little rat terrier b ecause I was sure Buck had had his fill of dogs running out barking and snarling at him But he did more or less ignore her....maybe because she was not barking or growiling. We pass several yards with fenced yards that have dogs run up and down the vence, most barking a "nice bark" but some someound pretty tough He ignores them. But i guess it is hard to ignore dogs getting right in behind your or beside you carrying on.

tashakota

Posted : 11/15/2006 8:33:16 AM

The dog was 2 feet away at that point, but just sniffing around in front of us, not looking at Cherokee, and I'm still so impressed that Cherokee wasn't lunging and snarling, but my guess is she was either just as terrified as me, or felt like I was in control, since I was yelling at him.

The other dog was displaying calming signals to try and get you to calm down.... Read Turid Rugass "Calming Signals".

Mikaela Ritter

Posted : 11/15/2006 9:59:21 AM

I hate this...I was just walking Cairo the other day and one of the neighbor's had their dog tied out on a rope in the front yard. When we walked by the dog noticed us and came just charging full speed toward us...but when she hit the end of the rope it jerked her so hard on the neck her front end went straight down and she did a summersault. It was so awful to watch...all I could think was how much that must have hurt and how dangerous that is for the poor dog's neck [

] The kids were in the front yard and were able to call her back when she got up and started trotting towards us (she had snapped the rope...and not the first time I've seen her do this when I walk by). Luckily she's not aggressive and really just wants to sniff, but Cairo is very easily intimidated and I was actually quite proud of him that he didn't go after her when she charged him. [

] That being said, I'm actually quite proud of these neighbors because I've seen some noticeable improvement in this dog's manners over the past few months and its quite clear that they've been working with her, but I really think they ought to find another way of containing her in the yard...

sandra_slayton

Posted : 11/15/2006 10:51:59 AM

When I use to walk 6th with my dogs a few years ago I stopped because of a rottie. That poor dog was chained to a tree in the back yard, no fence. I liked 6th because there is only woods on one side and the houses on the other , it is the side yard that face 6th. All the side streets dead end into 6th. Hard to describe. Anyway, that rottie would see us and run towards us and hit the end of his chain so hard he would be pulled off his feet. I finally got nervous enough that he would eventaully either break the chain or is collar that i stopped walking my dogs on that street. He is no longer there, so i don't know if he died or the people moved. But that dog was chained out there every time i went by, so i suspect that was his life.