06-21-2009, 05:15 PM
Hotzcatz,
I'm not sure your advice is the best I've heard. I've had two separate occasions where pit bulls were rabidly charging me. I use the term rabidly because they were barking, charging, aggressive, scary as hell and if I did what you suggested I think I would be another statistic of a dog mauling.
What I did, is yell very loudly and both times spray those dogs with pepper spray. One dog came within 2 feet of me until he took off and the other changed his course at 5 feet.
On a happy note, both of the dogs owners happened to hear me yelling and one keeps his dog in a kennel and the other completed the fencing on the 2ft lava wall around their yard. The same lava wall the dog "rabidly" scrambled over. Again, no pepper spray and I would bet a beer, and I'm not regularly the betting type, that I would have been mauled.
For the record, I have had a few friendly loose dogs come up to me, my wife and our dog during our walks and they didn't get sprayed.
I'm not sure your advice is the best I've heard. I've had two separate occasions where pit bulls were rabidly charging me. I use the term rabidly because they were barking, charging, aggressive, scary as hell and if I did what you suggested I think I would be another statistic of a dog mauling.
What I did, is yell very loudly and both times spray those dogs with pepper spray. One dog came within 2 feet of me until he took off and the other changed his course at 5 feet.
On a happy note, both of the dogs owners happened to hear me yelling and one keeps his dog in a kennel and the other completed the fencing on the 2ft lava wall around their yard. The same lava wall the dog "rabidly" scrambled over. Again, no pepper spray and I would bet a beer, and I'm not regularly the betting type, that I would have been mauled.
For the record, I have had a few friendly loose dogs come up to me, my wife and our dog during our walks and they didn't get sprayed.
See you in the surf