Man o man that's a kick azz song......going to hang onto that one.....I need to hear that every am at work!!!
Sitting here in my "cubicle" jam'in.......now thinking about Brat's.........mustard......good quality bun........hmmmm...oh let me tell you my most recent event........almost got in a chick fight last night!!!!
Darn dog in my training class attacked Hoss.......we are at one end of the room.....English Bulldog at the other end of the room......about 50 feet away.......was time for the bull dog to take his turn doing something off leash ............he ran over to one smaller dog and started humping away.......then the bull dog hauled butt to our end of the room ......Hoss was laying down relaxed and that dog ( fat little yucker) body slammed into Hoss.........thought he was going to have a hot night with my boy.....NOT........quite a situation for me because that dog was free....Hoss was on his leash........in no time flat Hoss was between that Dog and me........Hoss was snarling and chomping with his teeth and making all kinds of noise ..but Hoss never actually bit the other dog.......the owner finally was able to get her dog and she dragged him back to the other end of the room.
As I was thinking about this later last night ......I hung on to Hoss's leash during the whole event..still sitting in my hard azz metal chair...............and things turned out OK ......
BUT........say if it had not.......say if it had went the other way and the other dog was biting......at what point would I have wanted to drop his lead so Hoss could protect himself.....maybe I should have moved us as I saw the dog rushing our way......all of this seemed just like seconds.......maybe if I dropped the lead it would have been worse ???
Darn owner never said two words to me as class ended .....she sits by the entrance ...she was yapping again...paying no attention to what her dog was doing.........everyone trying to slide their smaller dogs by her dog.....I had to wait till her mouth took a break and I politely asked her to pull her dog in so we could walk by .......freakin chick glared at me like I was the azz as she struggled to pull her dog towards her ..............it's a good thing I meditate everyday....because I was seriously considering that boot up the azz technique that Doc utilizes ......doc now I understand ...kick'in boot up azz would have felt pretty good at the moment.... idiots!!!!
So what do you think folks......in that moment what would you have done?
I hate that kind of interchange (or non-interchange) mostly you don't see it in classes but in dog parks or hiking trails where off leash dogs might run into each other.
I'm very rude and aggressive about off leash dogs attacking (in any form--even if it's just humping) my on leash dog. I don't let go of the leash--or at least I've never done it on purpose)--I lost the leash when an oversized Lab knocked me down from behind when he charged my 10 month old Doberman. Fortunately I was a lot younger ("I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now..." Dylan)I jumped up and kicked the bejeepers out of the Lab--got him a good one under the chin which made him yipe and run back to his owners--they, the morons, were yelling "Don't hurt him, don't hurt him he's friendly he just wants to play...!!!"
Play my arz--my puppy was doing his level best to get out of the way of me and the Lab but in my experience--dropping the leash if your dog is the Doberman is a bad idea--no matter what really happened the Doberman almost always gets the blame. But if your dog stays on leash and the other dog gets attacked by you it's hard to argue that the Dobe was the aggressor.
I'd probably have leaped out of the chair and kicked it into the bulldog and continue to kick the chair into the bulldog if I couldn't kick the bulldog. I wouldn't have dropped the leash.
Why didn't the instructor stop it immediately before the bulldog had time to do anything other than hump the small dog.
Just for the record--most of the time I'm pretty peaceful and give other peoples dogs the benefit of the doubt but there comes a time...
AB--don't mess with my dawg!!!