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Originally Posted by abbey lee

WOW. So...I wrote a post a few weeks ago about how I took Abbey out and one of the girls that lives in the same building as me (and who I know fairly well) has 2 huge dogs and they both went after Abbey. Well, I got a lot of helpful ideas on how to deal with this...I chose to go talk to the girl and tell her that she needs to keep her dogs on leashes and I will also start taking Abbey on a leash NO MATTER WHAT.

Well...everything had been fine for a while and there were no hard feelings or anything, but just now I took Abs out and one of my other neighbors was out there with her weenie dog (one of the few Abbey "size" dogs Abbey feels comfortable playing with) and Abs and the weenie were running around playing. All of the sudden, the girl with the 2 big dogs comes out and only ONE of them is on a leash. Abbey was right there )her leash is one that extends pretty far out) and the dog just lunged at her and pinned her down. She was screaming and crying as they tussled her around. We immediately descended on them on broke it up. Abbey didn't have any cuts or anything but she was very shaken up and had peed all over herself.

Ugh! The girl with the 2 big dogs just started screaming "Oh my god, I hate my dogs!!" and was HITTING her dog that had attacked Abbey.

I had to ask her AGAIN to ALWAYS keep BOTH dogs on leashes bc they could really KILL my 3 pound dog with one snap. She apologized and agreed that it was not OK. I ran inside to fully check Abbey out and she was acting really "little" (as we say, acting like a baby). I felt so bad for her. I wonder if she is always going to have a fear of other dogs now.

I'm sure after this, the 2 big dogs will be kept on leashes. But this is just another event that makes me terrified to even take Abbey out.

Isn't it stressful having such a delicate dog???

From now on, when I go take Abs out on her leash, I am going to check to see if there are other people out first, and if there are I won't go. And if we are out and someone does come out, I'm picking her up and bringing her in.

I thought having a doggy would help me be closer to my other neighbors bc they all have dogs, but now it is just causing a big rift. My baby is most important and I just feel that people with "big" dogs have NO IDEA how protective you have to be when you have a small one.

OK, done venting.

Poor Abby..disgusting that she is so stupid.