Was walking home along busy main road with my dog (on lead).
See another dog approaching (staffie) 30 odd feet away, on a lead BUT lead is in the hand of a small child (5/6 yo). Mother of child walking behind about 15 feet.
I knew what was going to happen and I bet you do too.
Yep, the other dog clocked mine and belted towards us, pulled child over and lead out of childs hand, of course.
I had to stop her dog attacking mine whilst the stupid bitch ran over to grab her dog. Child crying (fell onto grass so hope more scared than hurt)
I cannot recall exactly what I said to her, but was along the lines of what kind of fool is she to let a small child "control" a dog - esp a staffie.
Sorry to staffie lovers, but I have seen too many staffie attacks and am terrified of them attacking my westie cross, he's been attacked 3 times.
AIBU?
To have REALLY shouted at this woman
BMW6 · 10/10/2013 19:31
My sister has a lurcher who isnt remotely aggressive, but is totally untrained and pulls like a train. He can easily pull my adult sister over, and he runs up to people barking like a loony. He wold share the shit out of any child. It makes me furious that she allows this. When I take him out, he is gutted that I am too strong for him to pull over. He whinges a bit and then he walks to heel. I think he thinks I am some kind of ambulant lamp-post that he can't influence 
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For those who don't understand the difference between the life that most pets get and some of the dogs that a bought to be 'tough', I had a project where the development was funding some off-site playground improvement - one of the improvements was replacement swing seats as the heavy duty rubber ones had been destroyed by people getting their dogs to bite them and then swinging the dogs from the swing whilst still holding on with their jaws.
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