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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  Oh, my goodness, no fear at all. Fairly shortly after Jilly was attacked & the vets cleared her to go on a walk again, I took her right up the block (but certainly not on the street where the Dalmatian lived) to where a particularly loud and viscious-sounding GSD lived on the corner house and whose back yard ran alongside the sidewalk, trying to keep myself calm, ready to go into trainer mode and ready for her fear at seeing a big dog again. I had prepared what I was going to do to slowly rehab her thru her fear. But the moment he came near his fence & began to bark, she was pulling on the leash and when I let her go right up near the fence, she was snarling and going toe-to-toe near the Cox fence with that big dog who sounded so loud & intimidating and she was just about 6 weeks post-op from her injury repair surgery. I was scared she'd hurt herself getting so roused and we left. I did give her praise for her extremely positive reaction to her first re-encounter with a big dog rather than ducking her tail and running away. She was just fearless and I never saw that the attack changed her a whit! All my preparations and reading about how to rehab a once-attacked, fearful dog weren't ever needed!
Tibbe is apparently a lot like her. He backs down to nothing from another dog. So I have to take that into consideration when he's around them as he thinks he's Rin Tin Tin - and he's more like steak size to some of today's big dogs! |
Was anything ever done about the Dalmatian after the attack? I know some areas are quite slow to deal with dog attacks.
When my Shih Tzu and I were attacked by a dog all I had was my purse to whack the other dog on the head but I kicked at him as well. He had rushed out the owners door and was upon my baby before I knew what happened. We were living in town at the time. I had just come home from work and put his leash on him and never put down my purse as I usually did. It was a pretty good sized purse though since I used to work long hours and carried a ton of stuff. The owner came running out the door yelling at me for hitting his dog on the head as it was trying to eat my dog! They were mindless "people." Thankfully, my little guy was not as seriously hurt as your Jilly but I still carry the paranoia of another attack. My heart starts racing when I see a dog heading toward us. I almost stopped taking Gracie to the park that she loves so much because of my own paranoia. Can't say I am totally free of it but I feel we are much safer with the umbrella.