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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  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. |
Absolutely!!! Everything you point out is true!!! We save our babies by snatching them up, but then YOU become the target for the atteacking dog, as it continues to go after your dog, held high over your head, if possible! With all that you endured with the horrific attack on little Jilly, OMG!!! it is a wonderment you could even function at all....Excellent idea with the large umbrella....a LARGE one is the key phrase here....if it had been one of those little pocket size purse carryind, I dont think you would have had the success you did....and I agree with your idea that it is probably the sounds and the flurring bustle of that "monsterous thing" flying open unexpectedly when you push the button, that provides at least 50% of the fear factor for the avenging dogs! Poor you and poor little Tibbs! These babies of ours will take on ANYTHING!!! You need a "NO FEAR" bumper sticker for his butt!!!