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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  Just cannot fathom anyone not trying to defend a crying, defenseless animal or themselves during a violent attack, especially when the victim could easily die if one doesn't fight back. Why should the malicious attacker live and not my dog or me? So I fought. Seeing my tiny 3 lb. Yorkie being suddenly and ferociously attacked by a 65 lb. dog 8 so many times her size, I fought to defend and then tried to kill during the sustained, vicious attack. I'm a doglover and worked my whole life to find, save, love, treat, heal, nurture, rehab and help troubled dogs but I fought to kill that dog until it let go of Jilly.
I don't doubt for a second that I saved little Jilly's life thanks to my tool and determination and after her surgery and rehab, I began to look for a deterrent so we could walk with a sense of security, which a whooshing-open umbrella has been for me and others who've confidently tried it. Approaching dogs fixating on Jilly during our subsequent walks quickly lost interest when the big umbrella opened suddenly before us!
Nothing is 100% when a vicious dog is bent on attack but a whooshing-open umbrella as a deterrent for OP's scary neighbor's rambunctious, unruly dog and other readers' unwanted dog approaches might generally help them avoid bad situations, as it has me when I've needed it. |
I mean if it comes down to that point then I would probably have to as well... but not without either punching, slapping or finding some way to screw the person over who decided to train a dog to be like that and let them run lose.
I have a very young niece, and I can just imagine what would happen if a dog got into our yard if she happened to be playing in it. Like had my niece been in the yard instead of the dog... I can see how it would all end, and I frankly would not sit idly by and let some POS get away with something like that.
There are innocent people in this neighborhood, children even who probably have no clue about this person or their dog. I know there's something wrong with them because my friends' brother went to check out their meter (Idk he works for the electric company- he mentioned he had to check this little meter that's on the front of the house) and the guy/woman just called the cops on him several times. Even after he's been there enough times to be recognized, and he's always wearing uniform while doing it. Not sure if he has a special car as well. But he also said his coworkers went to drop in mail once and the guy and the lady freaked out.
When the cops came they claimed they got some PTSD. None of them have been in the military, and while there are other things that could happen-- still we pretty much all doubt it as he mentioned other stuff as well. But regardless of what he /she have it gives no excuse to take a dog leave it out all day long in the cold, in the rain, if its too hot, etc. Just because you want protection.
Like we live in the suburbs, this neighborhood has no crime other than the kids who stole my box turtle and were stealing animals back then... I know a lot of the neighbors throughout the whole neighborhood and nothing ever happens here.... The worse that happens were those kids(well now tech. they're adults), and a few people who called for an EMT(apparently heart attacks and other kinds of things).
There's a lot of kids here though, some are old enough to be unattended but not old enough to fight off a dog that size.
I am saddened to hear(well know) that you and your Jilly went through all of this though.
I am sure we can find things that scare the average dog that would help as a deterrent...
Would be nice if they made stun guns that worked on medium to big dogs. That don't hurt the dog but would allow you to get away quickly.
Still mace is the only thing I can think of but being me I fear of accidentally spraying myself in panic. So now I am blind and an easy target.