My wife was walking our two small Shih Tzu dogs and was only one house down when a neighbors two boxers and another neighbors pit-bull zeroes in on our dogs. My wife is no light framed wallflower and she fought.
I was sitting in a meeting at work(I am just half a mile from the house when I get a 911 cal from my wife. I excuse myself and she is incomprehensible but I do get the word dog…I thought one of mine had been hurt or died. My wife has asthma and had been fighting for sometime. I jump in my truck and drive to my street where I find my wife near a fence surrounded by the dogs. My geriatric female dog had been shoved under the fence by my wife to protect her and my wife had just heaved a volleyball sized rock into the head of one of the boxers. Not knowing what had gone down I jump out grab a 24” pipe wrench meaning to kill anything that was attacking my wife and dogs(work truck so I had no firearm on me)..I retrieved the my female dog and put her in the truck and put my wife in the vehicle.. I asked where the male was.. she said she had thrown him into the back of our next door neighbors pickup truck. Both my dogs were slobbered and sanded but my wife had bruises a couple of puncture bite wounds and scratches on her arms and legs. She had been knocked to the ground about 6 times.
We called paramedics and animal control. As my wife was being treated I explained which dogs had attacked my wife.
(Luckily the pitbull was more interested in my dogs than my wife and actually got into a fight with one of the boxers when it bit my wife.(she had traveled about 150 yards during the episode) unluckily for the pitbull it was a pitbull at large during an attack on a human.)
All three dogs were taken away for 10 day quarantine. The male Boxer will be put down(not only due to aggressive behavior but due to wounds my wife with her fist and a large rock did and what a pitbull can do to a boxer in a one on one fight.
Once all the dogs were picked up I took my dogs to the vet and my wife to an urgent care center..a few hundred bucks later we are pulling into the driveway and the neighbor is their with his home insurance info. I wish he could have been as responsible before about providing something more than a 6x10 kennel for his two boxers to live in. They would both be health and happy and not facing destruction. The Pitbull did not escape his kennel at the next door home until he heard the activity. That is unfortunate. My wife’s asthma is all flared up tonight. My dogs seem OK and I just wish people would be responsible before this happens. The neighbor says he just got a loan for a fence…One of his boxers, we learned had learned to open the kennel gate, the female had escaped 3 to 4 times this past month but was rather skittish when approached but not aggressive. My wife had the unfortunate experience of facing both out with no socialization after spending all there time in a small pen with no outings (the owner does not walk them or run them..these are active dogs! ) As dog lovers it saddens me. As a husband it infuriates me. As a doggy daddy it would have broken my heart to lose a dog to violence.
Heads up!I am not in the best of moods!
I was sitting in a meeting at work(I am just half a mile from the house when I get a 911 cal from my wife. I excuse myself and she is incomprehensible but I do get the word dog…I thought one of mine had been hurt or died. My wife has asthma and had been fighting for sometime. I jump in my truck and drive to my street where I find my wife near a fence surrounded by the dogs. My geriatric female dog had been shoved under the fence by my wife to protect her and my wife had just heaved a volleyball sized rock into the head of one of the boxers. Not knowing what had gone down I jump out grab a 24” pipe wrench meaning to kill anything that was attacking my wife and dogs(work truck so I had no firearm on me)..I retrieved the my female dog and put her in the truck and put my wife in the vehicle.. I asked where the male was.. she said she had thrown him into the back of our next door neighbors pickup truck. Both my dogs were slobbered and sanded but my wife had bruises a couple of puncture bite wounds and scratches on her arms and legs. She had been knocked to the ground about 6 times.
We called paramedics and animal control. As my wife was being treated I explained which dogs had attacked my wife.
(Luckily the pitbull was more interested in my dogs than my wife and actually got into a fight with one of the boxers when it bit my wife.(she had traveled about 150 yards during the episode) unluckily for the pitbull it was a pitbull at large during an attack on a human.)
All three dogs were taken away for 10 day quarantine. The male Boxer will be put down(not only due to aggressive behavior but due to wounds my wife with her fist and a large rock did and what a pitbull can do to a boxer in a one on one fight.
Once all the dogs were picked up I took my dogs to the vet and my wife to an urgent care center..a few hundred bucks later we are pulling into the driveway and the neighbor is their with his home insurance info. I wish he could have been as responsible before about providing something more than a 6x10 kennel for his two boxers to live in. They would both be health and happy and not facing destruction. The Pitbull did not escape his kennel at the next door home until he heard the activity. That is unfortunate. My wife’s asthma is all flared up tonight. My dogs seem OK and I just wish people would be responsible before this happens. The neighbor says he just got a loan for a fence…One of his boxers, we learned had learned to open the kennel gate, the female had escaped 3 to 4 times this past month but was rather skittish when approached but not aggressive. My wife had the unfortunate experience of facing both out with no socialization after spending all there time in a small pen with no outings (the owner does not walk them or run them..these are active dogs! ) As dog lovers it saddens me. As a husband it infuriates me. As a doggy daddy it would have broken my heart to lose a dog to violence.
Heads up!I am not in the best of moods!
