with me on our walks. Like one of those little Louisville sluggers. For people and unleashed dogs.
Had all 4 out for a walk and a rottie comes tearing over and launches himself into my big 3. He aimed for Addie and kind of bounced off her (she really is a brick shithouse!) and then my 3 got on him but no bloodshed, just a tussle really, and then he ran back for the house. It seemed like it was longer than it actually was because I was wondering how I was going to get in the middle of 4 dogs, but I had already formed that thought when I saw him coming. And I also managed to plant myself to get my dogs under control for when he hit us. All in all my dogs were really good considering what happened.
When the lady came out of her house to get him I told her "to get her fucking dog". Ok, I was not happy, like could be expected. She didn't even apologize or ask if mine were ok or me for that matter. No marks on mine, no clue if he got any. Surprisingly mine were not really fazed by it much, I even got them all into a sit while I untangled Tad (good thing he has a halter collar or he could end up getting hung in tussle like that) and we were back on our way.
I know it was an accident, I didn't even see him, he could of bolted out of their door when he saw us, but it does tick me off that she didn't even inquire if everyone was ok and apologize.
It incidents like that that make me wonder if I should walk all 4 together or if it would be safer to split them up? On one hand it could be a bigger tussle with all of them together, on the other hand dogs have come towards them before but then have turned around when faced with all 3 big ones, so is it actually safer with the 3 big dogs together?
That's why the bat, I could bonk the dog on the head and use it as a bite stick if I had to. Believe me, I would be pulling them apart if I had too. Mace or pepper spray (both which I think are illegal here) would spray my dogs too and me and while I might have been able to blast the rottie in the face before he got to my dogs, I really don't want to go around spraying that if I really didn't have to. While feeling a bit bad, I would of felt justified today though.
Why a bat, or anykind of assault weapon?
Why not have better regulation, keeping these careless dog owners to a minimum?
Mandatory neutering (the optimal age would have to be set by qualified scientists), health insurances, et al.
BTW, trab is on timeout, so his point of view on this matter can't be heard.
-Hedge