Some people need to be devoured by weasels

[protege]

I had my former neighbor's German Shepherd bite me while I was delivering papers... As I was putting the paper on the porch, the dog jumped against the door, got out...and promptly sunk its teeth in my leg Only bit me once, but the owners were literally crapping themselves. Let's just say that I always got a hefty tip after that, and I usually carried a bat when I went over there.

Not long after that, the dog got out again, bit my brother and a few other people This time, they got sued over it. Not only did they have to get rid of the dog, but last I heard, the guy who owned it...got busted for threatening one of the victims.

[Hyena Dandy]

Dogs aren't just single-personality things, either. Maybe her dogs are sweet as hell around her, but they're vicious to anything else. I had a cat like that once. She'd scratch anyone who wasn't me.

[mariamousie1]

I can't stand when people let their dogs roam free like that. Our next door neighbours used to have a dog that for some reason, hated our dog. They would let the dog lie out on the lawn which was okay except for whenever I walked past with my dog and their dog would attack him. Like jump on him and start a fight. Every time this happened I would freak out and run to the door to get the neighbour who would come out and grab his dog. We kept telling them to not let the dog off the leash, but it kept happening. After about the fourth time this happened, my mom told the neighbour that the next time it happened she would call animal control. It never happened again, and I think their dog died sometime later (he was pretty old). They're nice people, but not too responsible.
Once my four year old niece was playing in their backyard with their four year old, and the whole family left, leaving my niece alone in the back yard. Luckily it was right next door.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Here's what I don't understand: How someone in this day and age has not heard of these things we have here called "lawsuits."

Pepole like this get off on the idea that their dogs are attacking and threatening people. I've seen it time and time again. I've seen people who actually had their dogs leashes who unleashed them when they saw others approach with their leashed dogs.

Some asshead down in a park in Savannah did this to my sister and her Rhodesian Ridgeback. Yeah. A freaking Ridgeback. Great dog. Bred to help fight LIONS, if I understand right. Anyways, my sister ended up kicking the crap out of the guy's dog and he had the gonads to try and yell at her! So she got all up in his face and offered to kick the crap out of HIM. He backed down, too. Freaking wimp.

I was out on the church lawn doing some work a couple years ago and some douche unleashed his two big black...I don't know what they were, they were huge black bulky dogs with lots of teeth. Had them on leashes, and when he saw me, he let them off the leash. Un freaking real. And then they came right at me like bullets.

I am sure what he expected me to do was scream and run for the door while he laughed. I didn't do that.

What I did do was calmly pick up a pretty pink cell phone with one hand, flip it open, and dial with my thumb. With my other hand, I calmly swooped down, picked up the huge machete I had lying next to where I was working, and flicked the sheath off. Then I started marching matter of factly towards his dogs.

Not a real problematic difference between handling a machete and handling a sabre. At least, not in an emergency situation. And I dearly, dearly love fighting sabre. Machetes are nice to carry, because they are a deadly weapon and you can claim it's a gardening/hiking tool you use to cut brush. I'm just saying.

Anyway, assface decided he'd better call his dogs back with quickness right then. Probably ended up standing in a little yellow puddle. Pig.

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

I've been bitten by a small dog. Rotten little creature. Belonged to the grandparents of some of my friends, and they let the little bastard roam free.

I was trying to learn how to roller blade, and the bastard came at me. I couldn't even try to get away on those skates, so CHOMP!

I hope the bastard got run over.

So I'm not a fan of small dogs, AND I never learned to roller blade.

Never had a problem with big dogs. Most I've met were well-behaved. Though when I do get a dog, it's getting the strongest chain leash I can find, and I will yank if it gets aggressive.

[AccountingDrone]

I will have the scars until I die from the dog that attacked me when I was fourteen. He was trying to kill me. I love dogs, but I went through a major PTSD period. Even my own dog made me nervous sometimes. It wasn't until after I moved in with my first husband and his two Briards and one German Shepherd that I got used to dogs again.

You have to assume that any dog will bite, even liddle pweshus smoochie woochies.

oooo briards... pix?

[iradney]

My dog is awesome. He's more likely to lick someone to death. But I still never let him off the leash unless I can see all around me that there's no other people or dogs around

[EricKei]

We have a husky here. Sweet and friendly or no, he does NOT leave the house without a leash.

[wagegoth]

oooo briards... pix?

As requested:



To give you an idea of his size, his rear reaches the back of the recliner and his head is well past the front. He weighed about 110 lbs. at the time. Since he was no longer being shown, I kept his hair cut down to a manageable length.

If you look closely, you can tell how old the photo is by the TV Guide on the table.

[mandaliz8704]

I mentioned in another thread that I used to have a pitbull. I was out walking her (she was probably about 4months old at the time... so not puppy-puppy, but not big yet, either) one morning just minding our own business, and there was a woman on the other side of the street with a large German Shepherd. She sees my little pit, screams "OH MY GAWD, IT'S A PIIIITBUUULLLL!" and turns her dog loose and tells it to "GO GET IT!!!"

Whut!?!?!

It comes barrelling across this residential street barking like mad, and I did pretty much what the OP's mom did... I jerked Roxy up by her leash, caught her, held her to my chest and spun around so my back was to the German Shepherd. There was nothing else I could do, and I was more worried about protecting my dog than I was about possibly being injured myself.

The funny part is that I was standing in front of my neighbor's house at the time, who was a Police Officer in the K9 Unit of the local PD, and he saw the whole thing. Haha, bitch! Sucks to be yooou.

[NightWatch]

I used to live in a house that was right next to a walking path and people would wander into my yard ALL the time. Freaked me out the first couple of times cuz the landlord didn't bother to warn me. But yeah, I'd send my dog out into MY yard only to find out some dipshit wandered into my yard with an offleash dog.
One morning I was standing at the end of my walkway playing with my doggies and this little dog just saunters right up to us and takes a dump like 3 feet from me. The owner comes up a few minutes later and I flipped out at her about not leashing her dog and then letting it crap in my yard and having no intention of picking up after it. If she hadn't bowed down and picked up the poo, I would have hucked it at the back of her head.

Then there was the time I was taking my dogs on a hike. Of course they were on a leash, and some old guy comes walking up with his golden retriever off leash. My dogs are territorial with me, so seeing the other dog start charging up, they stand in front of me like they are ready to defend. So in the midst of this scuffle, I nearly get bit by this guy's dog several times. I said some words... I may or may not have thrown out the fact that I am employed by <police department>.

[protege]

If she hadn't bowed down and picked up the poo, I would have hucked it at the back of her head.

If you do that...use a shovel. You get more leverage

[NightWatch]

Protege, I'm clutzy. I'd somehow manage to smack her in the back of the head with both the poo and the shovel... While I was angry at her, I certainly wasn't in the mood for an assault charge.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Here's something I posted a while back about how my grandfather took care of that problem.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

I heard somewhere that mail carriers carry those umbrellas that pop open with a push of a button to scare or ward off charging dogs. From the dog's viewpoint, something BIG just appeared in front of them out of nowhere.

Yeah, I'm not big with dogs... I'm more of a 'cat' person. I was bitten when I was very young and I still feel uneasy around them. So far, I've only been around dogs my brother has owned (and he makes sure that his dogs are trained properly) and two that a new member of the gaming club has been bringing with her.