10-21-2012, 03:56 AM
wow! I am so sorry that happened to your poor puppy and you! is the puppy ok? Did you take the puppy to the vet? You might want to do that even if the wounds do not seem like they need stitches. A large neighboring dog came off its yard to attack a small on leash dog being walked on a pupblic road by its owner. The large dog rolled both the small dog and its owner in the road before the large dog could be caught in a choker hold and pulled off. Even though the small dog walked away from the incident and seemed to have only a small bite, later became lethargic and seemed very stiff movements. Upon vet examination internal injuries from being thrown around were discovered. The dog spent several days at the vet receiving care. $5,000. worth of damages that the large dog owner paid out of pocket.
Terracore gave excellent knowledge and advice based on the governing animal control laws in your area. Document, document, document! Yes, request animal control to give the ticket, that is documentation, take your dog to the vet for a check up, this is documetation, go to the hospital yourself for a check up and you have that as documentation as well. An animal that attacks will do it again. The only measure I would use against an attacking dog is a gun and I would kill! I personally am a woman, I would not dare to use a club even if it had nails to inflict pain on the attacking animal. An animal that attacks is not an animal that is afraid, it knows its power, if pain is inflicted during the heat of an attack, it is not going to tuck tail and run away, it is going to turn and attack the one causing pain. Imagine now you being the victim of 2 attacking pit bulls!!! I have raised pitbulls before (never again), they can be very nice dogs, but they require responsible owners who do not encourage a hyped up behavior and absolutely no sparring with another dog plus careful training and interaction with people and other animals. It is a very time consuming job to ensure a pitbull is taught to behave against thier natural inclination to fight. If these pitbulls are used in underground fighting areana's at all then they are use to tearing small "bait" dogs to pieces!
GO TO COURT!!! Get this stopped, create a fuss, call the news stations, the paper, anything you can think of to call attention to these dogs and thier owner. Granted you won't be on terms of any sort with your neighbor, but just think - next time something like this happens, you might be laying on your floor bleeding out your juggler and dead before anyone knows!
Sorry to be so graphic, but really, large attacking dogs are nothing to mess with they need to be dealt with swiftly! I am afraid my swiftly would be to immediatley march over to the neighbors with a gun and shoot the dogs myself chained up or not! Yep, I would probably go to jail but at least the dogs would have been exacted my revenge for inury to myself and my helpless puppy!
Terracore gave excellent knowledge and advice based on the governing animal control laws in your area. Document, document, document! Yes, request animal control to give the ticket, that is documentation, take your dog to the vet for a check up, this is documetation, go to the hospital yourself for a check up and you have that as documentation as well. An animal that attacks will do it again. The only measure I would use against an attacking dog is a gun and I would kill! I personally am a woman, I would not dare to use a club even if it had nails to inflict pain on the attacking animal. An animal that attacks is not an animal that is afraid, it knows its power, if pain is inflicted during the heat of an attack, it is not going to tuck tail and run away, it is going to turn and attack the one causing pain. Imagine now you being the victim of 2 attacking pit bulls!!! I have raised pitbulls before (never again), they can be very nice dogs, but they require responsible owners who do not encourage a hyped up behavior and absolutely no sparring with another dog plus careful training and interaction with people and other animals. It is a very time consuming job to ensure a pitbull is taught to behave against thier natural inclination to fight. If these pitbulls are used in underground fighting areana's at all then they are use to tearing small "bait" dogs to pieces!
GO TO COURT!!! Get this stopped, create a fuss, call the news stations, the paper, anything you can think of to call attention to these dogs and thier owner. Granted you won't be on terms of any sort with your neighbor, but just think - next time something like this happens, you might be laying on your floor bleeding out your juggler and dead before anyone knows!
Sorry to be so graphic, but really, large attacking dogs are nothing to mess with they need to be dealt with swiftly! I am afraid my swiftly would be to immediatley march over to the neighbors with a gun and shoot the dogs myself chained up or not! Yep, I would probably go to jail but at least the dogs would have been exacted my revenge for inury to myself and my helpless puppy!
islandgirl