I just hate this. Poor Lucy. I can only wish for her speedy recovery. Clearly, the wound is vicious. Sounds like Lucy is being a real trooper about it.
I live on the edge of a lovely small park am done would think that would be so nice to walk the trails with their dog, however, the number of off leash dogs totally ruins the whole thing. After several close calls -- let me back up and say I live in "cop land" - every 3rd or 4th house has a patrol car in front of it -- one of my police neighbors took me to get a police style taser and made a little belt for it to hang on.
I have only had to use it once in three years and it was a comical Keystone Cop affair with the big dog knocking me as I'm trying to hold Cali up in the air, and then even knocking down his owner -- bottom line it ended up with the owner getting tased -- did you know people pee themselves when they are tased!!!
In answer to my screams half the neighborhood police force showed up to untangle all of us. The local officers are still laughing about it. Personally, I did not find it that funny!
These little dogs are not able to protect themselves from those off leash dogs and the penalties need to be more stringent.
I hope you are able to do something in small claims court. Take care of Lucy and keep us posted how she is doing. This could have been an elderly person or a child as well as Lucy or your smaller dogs.
I share your outrage
