[Mom to Hot Rod]

Originally Posted by teacup0819

Glad to hear that Maggie is alright. You did the right thing by getting her out of there when you were able.

We had a bernese mountain dog puppy run across the street after Trixie last year when we were walking her...the bernese was super friendly, but even as a puppy her front paws were on my shoulders when she was trying to get a peek at Trixie. Needless to say, Trixie was scooped up before the bernese got near her, but I don't walk Trixie alone ever.....I'm too afraid.

Have a nice glass of wine or a cup of tea and rub Maggie May's little belly tonight.

Wow, I can certainly understand! Puppies are just so playful and clumsy. Big ones just don't know that they can do harm without meaning to. We have do have another neighbor who has 2 dogs that one of them is kinda scary. It reminds me of a rotweiler. The son got him while he was at college and now the dog lives with his family full time. He kinda dominates the king charles spaniel they have. They had gotten loose several times and that was a very, very scary thing. The few times these 2 were able to escape their electric fence was a very scary time. I would only walk with hubby in the evenings and one time hubby thought the dog was going to jump on him! Finally the owners realized just how menacing they were and they've stepped up to the plate and have contained them ever since--Thankfully!

Originally Posted by yavenay

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.

Wow, you must have been so frightened, and yes, I can totally relate. If you read my response just above this, I have done what you did to protect my 2 but in my case, from what I thought was a nasty, mean dog. Thank goodness the owner was able to get control.

You are such a good mom to protect your babies no matter what.

Originally Posted by 107barney

This is why I never let my dogs around large dogs, no matter how gentle they appear. When we are walking if I see people with their large dogs, I pick up my dogs and cross the street. I don't even want to be on the same sidewalk with them. I would never want to see my little dogs be in fear of some oversized monster.

It's been a very gradual introduction to Klondike over the past year since Klondikes older sister passed away. Up until recently, the only time they were able to meet and greet was with me holding my 2 and Klondike being held by her leash at her collar. If I even sensed on drop of danger, my 2 would not get near the situation.