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Originally Posted by Mom to Hot Rod  OMG, you will never believe what happened to Maggie May on our evening walk. We were walking and waiting for her 2 yorkie friends when we met up with 2 of my other neighbors walking their 3 New Foundlands. Well, Maggie May and one of them are kinda chumy. She cowers up to her and they sniff and that's that.
Well, tonight, the other neighbor who has the 2 was standing back a bit because they do not know each other. Well, the younger Newfie is about 3 years old and still a bit rambuncous...she got away from mom and then so did the other one. They surprised mom by doing this and by this time, mom is on the ground being pull across the pavement. Mom went right down and is bleeding by this point.
I've already got Hot Rod in my arms, as I usually do on this part of the walk. Well, next thing I know, all 3 newfies are all over Maggie May and she is upside down under the 3 of them! I could see her and that no one was biting or snarling...they were just trying to sniff her.
Forutnately all 3 have cats in the house and they are good buddies with them. They were all just trying to sniff her but Maggie was freaking because she was in the middle of them. Both my neighbors were trying to grab collars (mind you mom of the 2 newfies has a scraped up and had a bloody hand) and I was with one hand trying to pull on Maggie's leash with the arm that I was holding Hot Rod with.
Maggie got free somehow and I yanked her outta there and scooped her up. I was afraid that if I grabbed the newfie that anyone of them would start attacking her. And then I was afraid that if I yanked too hard and had Maggie in the air, that the newfies would start to try and jump and bite at her to bite her.
I tucked both Maggie May and Hot Rod into my jacket and just held them close to me. She was so frightened and just started digging into me. She finally calmed down and I just cradled the both of them.
So please watch your babies no matter what, it only takes a moment. Needless to say Maggie May is getting some extra special attention tonight. |
Oh Lawdy.....I know how you felt. My neighbhor has 2 saint bernards both of them are least 135lbs. My neighbhor normally has excellent control of them while they are their leash and the male st bernard is always well behaved when he sees Brandi but his sister is much younger and more playful. So whenever she sees Brandi she immediately gets excited. Well this one day she manage to break away from her owner who took off right after Brandi. Fortunaley I saw her coming scooped her up in my arms and just turn my back to the st. bernard. I was basically trying to hide her by turning my back. Her owner as able to get to her before she got to us but I was so scared for Brandi. So scared in fact that I was willing to risk getting injured to protect her. But even with all of that, I kinda of knew Annabelle (the female st bernanrd) just want to play with Brandi and felt that she would not hurt her intentionally. It was just her sheer size. It is so true that it only takes a few seconds. Those st bernards are not vicious and appear to be well trained but you can never take for granted that they won't intentionally hurt someone.