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Originally Posted by gracielove  I think the umbrella idea is wonderful. I have used it every time we go to the park ever since I first saw you post about it. Before that I would automatically pick her up whenever I saw a dog near by but if one ever came from behind it would have been too late. I know these little dogs sometimes remind other dogs of bunnies or something but I think there are a lot of people that just do not train their dogs properly.
Glad to hear Tribbe was not effected in the least by the incident! He sounds like quite a scrapper! |
I always used to pick Jilly up if a dog were coming near but after her attack, when I was trying to leave the scene, that Dalmatian kept following us. She was having a seizure and choking in my arms from her injuries and I had to keep that beastly thing from getting her again! If I had just had a big open umbrella, I could have just put it behind me and hustled a lot faster out of there but as I had nothing but that faux walking stick in one hand and my little girl almost en extremis in my left arm, I couldn't do much but slowly sidle down the sidewalk. I couldn't have successfully fought a 65 lb. dog off with just that stick as long as I had her in my arms and if I put her down, he could get at her again. A big umbrella would have intimidated him and kept him at bay. But you know, that Dalmatian came all the way to the end of the block following us before he turned for home and I could run a ways away and see to her, open her airway. Once she stopped seizing, I ran home, watching over my shoulder and waving that stick behind me just in case. It was as I was standing there with a bleeding, seizing dog in my arms being stalked by that dog that I realized picking up your dog can't help much if you have a dog that really wants to attack. And you become their target, too. If only I'd known about the umbrella before that, I likely could have saved Jilly a lot of agony.