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SoCalyorkiLvr · 06-09-2005, 07:22 AM

I try to forget this memory, but when I was about 12 years old, we boarded our horses on a ranch about three miles from our house. We would go there to ride. One day my mother asked me to take our miniature poodle out of the car to go potty (my mom always sat in the car with the poodle and waited while we rode the horse) His name was Peppy.

I had him on leash and, before I knew it the ranch owner's boxer (not on a leash since he was on his own property) was nose to nose to Peppy. I thought he just wanted to play or make friends, but, without so much as a growl, he grabbed my little poodle around the top of the neck and shoulders and would not let go. I pulled on the leash and began hitting the boxer in the head and body. Peppy was screaming and I got bit twice (both by Peppy who was trying to bite the boxer) My mother came out and got my poodle free once but the boxer jumped up on her (she is 5'2") and pulled Peppy away from her again. We finally got Peppy free and in the car and I had to lay in the back seat all the way to the emergency vet (it was a sunday) while Peppy screamed in pain.

The vet said he could do surgery and save his life but he wouldn't walk well. My parents loved that dog so we agreed to the expensive surgery. Peppy made it through the surgery but died two dies later when he had a seizure. I was traumatized for life by the incident and I have a hard time warming up to boxers.

All that happened to that boxer was that he was quarantined to his home for 30 days. I think this incident had something to do with my decision to become an attorney because I wanted to be able to DO SOMETHING to wrong doers when they they do something bad. Now, granted we were on private property and you could argue that the dog was "protecting his property" but this was a business. They boarded horses and should not have had a dog that would attack other dogs left to roam freely. There was a witness who said they heard the dog's owner (a teenage son of the business owner) "sic" the dog on my dog and tell him to "get 'im".

If a dog were ever to attack my dog again I would try as hard as I could to kill it! It is just inexcusable in my opinion and cannot be tolerated. Especially, if it was on my property, as it was in this case. This yorkie owner should be suing the rottweiler owner not the other way around. She is defintely the victim" in my opinion. I used to own rottweilers so I am not prejudiced against the breed but they are enormous and can easily over power a person.

06-09-2005, 07:22 AM	#7
SoCalyorkiLvr BANNED! Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 8,246	I try to forget this memory, but when I was about 12 years old, we boarded our horses on a ranch about three miles from our house. We would go there to ride. One day my mother asked me to take our miniature poodle out of the car to go potty (my mom always sat in the car with the poodle and waited while we rode the horse) His name was Peppy. I had him on leash and, before I knew it the ranch owner's boxer (not on a leash since he was on his own property) was nose to nose to Peppy. I thought he just wanted to play or make friends, but, without so much as a growl, he grabbed my little poodle around the top of the neck and shoulders and would not let go. I pulled on the leash and began hitting the boxer in the head and body. Peppy was screaming and I got bit twice (both by Peppy who was trying to bite the boxer) My mother came out and got my poodle free once but the boxer jumped up on her (she is 5'2") and pulled Peppy away from her again. We finally got Peppy free and in the car and I had to lay in the back seat all the way to the emergency vet (it was a sunday) while Peppy screamed in pain. The vet said he could do surgery and save his life but he wouldn't walk well. My parents loved that dog so we agreed to the expensive surgery. Peppy made it through the surgery but died two dies later when he had a seizure. I was traumatized for life by the incident and I have a hard time warming up to boxers. All that happened to that boxer was that he was quarantined to his home for 30 days. I think this incident had something to do with my decision to become an attorney because I wanted to be able to DO SOMETHING to wrong doers when they they do something bad. Now, granted we were on private property and you could argue that the dog was "protecting his property" but this was a business. They boarded horses and should not have had a dog that would attack other dogs left to roam freely. There was a witness who said they heard the dog's owner (a teenage son of the business owner) "sic" the dog on my dog and tell him to "get 'im". If a dog were ever to attack my dog again I would try as hard as I could to kill it! It is just inexcusable in my opinion and cannot be tolerated. Especially, if it was on my property, as it was in this case. This yorkie owner should be suing the rottweiler owner not the other way around. She is defintely the victim" in my opinion. I used to own rottweilers so I am not prejudiced against the breed but they are enormous and can easily over power a person.