What would you do

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Theres a man on my estate who has an English Bull Terrier. I was playing ball with my 9 month old Patterdale x on a field this morning. I walked around the block with her off the lead and the English Bull came around the corner off the lead. They stopped, looked at each other then the EB snarled and took off after her. I dread to think what would have happend if it had got hold of her. Anyway the PT out ran the EB half way around the estate. I didnt want to call mine in case she stopped and the EB wouldnt go back to its owner. They ran round the corner and i lost sight of them. When i got there the man had managed to get the EB on its lead with mine nowhere to be seen. He went home and i couldnt find mine. I walked home to get the kids dad to help me look and there was mine sitting at the back gate obviously shaken up.

This EB has attacked 3 dogs in a month on my estates and its still walking around off the lead. Now mine wont come out of the garden.

I am by no means writing this because it is an EB as i have a staff myself and know its not the breed. If my staff was aggressive there is no way i would walk round with her off the lead.

Should this man have his dog on a lead at all times when walking. I take mine out off the lead but they are not dog aggressive.

Yep - if you know where the man lives I'd be inclined to have a word with the dog warden, explain that you have genuine concerns by referring to the previous attacks and ask the DW to go out and issue a warning to the owner, using the Dog Control Order legislation.

Dog Control orders

What Val says, but I would also keep your dog on the lead unless you are somewhere 'safe' like a park, as your dog could easily have been chased into a road and been run over. Had she been on the lead it may well have been possible to put yourself between the EBT and your dog and prevent an attack, but I'd personally rather risk a dog attacking mine than it running in front of a car.

i was on a massive field where i live and theres hardly any roads. Theres 2 cul de sacs I can walk from mine to the field without crossing one. Theres a huge field in front of my house and thats where he normally goes so i avoid that one but he was where i go today. I would put the dog on a lead if there was road.

I know where he lives but tbh i think i will just get a load of verbal. Apparently it doesnt attack all dogs just some. Thats what he said to the woman at the top of the street who had just come in from the field with her dog and it ran in her gate and into her house to attack hers.

I had a run in with his friend last summer who has a collie cross which isnt bothered about other dogs but bites people. She walks this off the lead. The collie has already bit an 8 year old and the police were involved. They said she had to walk it muzzld and on a lead. I have to walk past her flat to go to the school and she just lets it out. It ran at us when i had the 3 kids and i ended up having an ding dong with her after it was snapping at the 2 yr old i had picked up. I reported her to the council, someone else also rang the police after it went for their daughter. They asked me what they wanted me to do and i said just to have it on a lead so it cant run at people. After all this shes now got herself a coker spaniel and now has 2 dogs in a flat??

She still also walks hers off the lead even though the police and council have told her twice its got to be muzzled and on a lead.

Thanks for the link i will have a look now. I am just a bit wary as i know its going to cause world war 3.

"Apparently it doesnt attack all dogs just some"

???? So presumably it's tough luck if the "some" dogs happens to include yours??

Unbelieveable and totally irresponsible dog ownership.

I would go to the council/dog warden/police immediately and report both of them. Just imagine if you don't, and next time one of their dogs seriously injures your dog, or even your child. It simply isn't worth the risk.

Surely you can report them anonymously and explain the situation regarding possible reprisals to the authorities when you speak to them?

If my dog (never mind a child) was attacked like this I would want the police/council to come down on the owner like a ton of bricks. You owe it to other dogs and kids in the neighbourhood to get the situation sorted....

report him, twat.