I just need to vent. We were out on a walk yesterday when ddog was approached my 2 young large breed dogs. He is medium sized.
DH has been walking him more than me recently and said he played with the same dogs recently. I immediately said I didn't like the intermittently tense body language from one of the dogs (only subtle but present) and so we walked further away (large green space) and completely out of sight.
5 mins later, the dog shows up, no owner with it. Ddog was next to me minding his own business. The dog grabbed him and started trying to bite his face and legs. It got in a few bites to the face (removing fur but not a lot else) and did make his ear bleed. Ddog didn't do anything other than growl in response but the other dog wasn't stopping, fortunately I confused the other dog for a second by making a long high pitched noise and DH was able to pull it off. I'm heavily pregnant so would have been stuffed if DH wasn't there.
It's owners didn't even know, nor care, what was happening. They couldn't call it back but also had no idea what it had done as they couldn't see it. I shouted to them that their dog has attacked and bitten, and they didn't say anything at all. Just went and sat back down where they were to start with.
(After putting the dog on a lead).
We left with ddog and let him greet some friendly dogs on leads. He didn't seem shaken. I've also arranged a lead walk witha similar breed dog later where I will load him up with treats.
It doesn't seem to have effected him but I am so angry and now anxious myself. He's the breed that everyone will avoid, when he won't hurt a fly. For this reason other people haven't ever really walked him for us. I was finally getting content with a family member walking him and open to the idea of them letting him off lead (his recall is solid but I just worry that he will boisterously approach an old person or something) but now I'm worried they will see this stupid dog and not realise.
How do you get over your dog being attacked unprovoked when your dog doesn't seem to care?
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Ddog was attacked yesterday - he doesn't care, but I do
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Climbingahoneytree · 27/03/2019 06:21
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