(This is NOT the dog I posted about a few weeks ago, who mine scuffled with).
We’ve got an aggressive dog on the street and I am honestly concerned about walking mine now. I’d never seen this dog before, though I’d heard him barking and knew someone had a large dog.
This morning he was out. Thankfully I noticed him before taking mine out for their morning constitutional; it scares me to death to think what might have happened.
He charged two neighbors who went out to pick up their newspapers; one woman barely got through her door. Chased another neighbor’s car down the street. Went after someone else’s dog. And the kicker: a new neighbor and her son were moving in a couple of doors away from Aggressive Dog; Aggressive Dog had trapped them in their car in the driveway, a la Cujo. She called Animal Control. Dog looks sort of like what you’d get from crossing a SharPei with a Mastiff.
My husband went down to see what he could do (armed with Louisville Slugger); he got the full story from everyone else. Apparently everyone knew where the dog lived, but could NOT get the owner to come to the door. AC arrived, got the (furious) dog on a catch pole and into the truck. They couldn’t rouse the owner either but said they’d cite him. DH says, “hang on”, POUNDED the door, and finally woke the owner up. Words were exchanged, papers signed, and he got the dog back. :mad: (I really wish DH hadn’t bothered - at least then Aggressive Dog would have spent a couple of days in the pound).
The dog is “not his”; he says he’s been keeping it for a friend, not that it really matters. He said he’s got a “shored-up electric fence”. They haven’t lived here long and of course, now the dog has figured a way out.
I’m terrified. I’ve planned out an alternate walk route, but would really like a suggestion on something I can carry and that I can manage accurately with two leashed dogs. A Taser is not, at $400, really in the budget at the moment.
This dog’s a nasty piece of work and I have a feeling he won’t stick around long; the immediate neighbors were complaining that they were kept up all night by barking, for one thing. (We suspect the owner was sleeping off a drunk, based both on the fact that he didn’t hear the dog barking all night, didn’t hear the people knocking on his door, and the huge pile of beer cans in his recycle bin).
Any ideas? Mace is a thought, but that could get bad for us if the wind is blowing in the wrong direction. There’s a shock baton that’s about $75. . .
