What do you walk with to protect from other dogs?

[Anonymous]

I don’t want stop walking our dog because we live where leash laws are not followed by many and aggressive dogs charge, but after trying many paths and parks, the unleashed and charging seems to be everywhere. Any suggestions? Is there something I could carry to most kindly and safely separate the dogs or even better stop one from charging to begin with? This when not the friendly sniff meet and greet but attack.

[Anonymous]

Air horn

[Anonymous]

Where do you live that there are multiple off-leash dogs "attacking"? Call animal control and have them patrol and stop the idiot owners who think this is okay. They need the citation revenue, and people with and without dogs deserve to use public space in peace.

As for what to carry, I wear boots. If your dog is close enough to encounter my boot, welp, that's your L as an owner.

[Anonymous]

My dog was attacked by an unleashed pitt bull. I now carry a knife and pepper spray.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where do you live that there are multiple off-leash dogs "attacking"? Call animal control and have them patrol and stop the idiot owners who think this is okay. They need the citation revenue, and people with and without dogs deserve to use public space in peace.

As for what to carry, I wear boots. If your dog is close enough to encounter my boot, welp, that's your L as an owner.

it happens basically anywhere there are leashed and unleashed dogs.

dogs, even really wonderful ones, see leashed dogs as a target and if they're out of their owners sight and unleashed, even "good dogs" like labs will go full Kujo on a leashed dog.

Sucks to be the responsible one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dog was attacked by an unleashed pitt bull. I now carry a knife and pepper spray.

might not be enough for a Pit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dog was attacked by an unleashed pitt bull. I now carry a knife and pepper spray.

According to the experts who have studied & written articles on this topic,pepper spray & bear spray are ineffective at stopping an attacking pit bull. Any knife would have to be very long to be effective.

As ridiculous and as dangerous as it sounds, the experts have determined that the most effective way to help a victim (dog, human, or other animal) from a pit bull attack is to pull the pit bull's tail with great force. Not kidding. Of course, the attacking pit bull will then focus its aggression on the tail puller.

When neighbors adopted a full grown pit bull, their friends refused to come into their house. As I am a well known dog lover, the couple confided in me how foolish their friends were being to which I replied that the only way that I would enter their home was with a cocked 45 calibre hand-gun (although I am not a gun owner).

The couple's two pit bulls got loose one day and went on a killing spree of about 30 animals including a number of beautiful llamas. The couple quickly sold their home & fled back to an adjoining state. The couple's daughter headed the pit bull adoption/rehoming center in our city.

As a life-long dog owner with multiple dogs, I refuse to walk my dogs in public and I especially avoid dog parks due to aggressive dogs and diseases (especially eye diseases). I live on a full acre with strong fences so that my lab mix rescues can run & play without the danger of another dog coming onto our property.

I know pit bull owners who get off on watching their pit bulls attack other dogs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dog was attacked by an unleashed pitt bull. I now carry a knife and pepper spray.

According to the experts who have studied & written articles on this topic,pepper spray & bear spray are ineffective at stopping an attacking pit bull. Any knife would have to be very long to be effective.

As ridiculous and as dangerous as it sounds, the experts have determined that the most effective way to help a victim (dog, human, or other animal) from a pit bull attack is to pull the pit bull's tail with great force. Not kidding. Of course, the attacking pit bull will then focus its aggression on the tail puller.

When neighbors adopted a full grown pit bull, their friends refused to come into their house. As I am a well known dog lover, the couple confided in me how foolish their friends were being to which I replied that the only way that I would enter their home was with a cocked 45 calibre hand-gun (although I am not a gun owner).

The couple's two pit bulls got loose one day and went on a killing spree of about 30 animals including a number of beautiful llamas. The couple quickly sold their home & fled back to an adjoining state. The couple's daughter headed the pit bull adoption/rehoming center in our city.

As a life-long dog owner with multiple dogs, I refuse to walk my dogs in public and I especially avoid dog parks due to aggressive dogs and diseases (especially eye diseases). I live on a full acre with strong fences so that my lab mix rescues can run & play without the danger of another dog coming onto our property.

I know pit bull owners who get off on watching their pit bulls attack other dogs.

I would never own a pit bull and I'm wary of people who deny they are particularly dangerous, but this is not normal. You don't walk your dogs in public? Like...ever?

OP--sorry to hear your neighbors are so irresponsible. That's really unfair. My mom used to tie a weighty carabiner to the end of the leash to swing if needed.

[Anonymous]

Move out of the trailer park. I can’t think of any unleashed dog ever approaching my dog because I don’t live a place where dogs roam around.