Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:heres a real one, http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/18364980/southeast-shooting-leaves-1-dead-another-injured
ME THINKS PG
Police describe the lookout vehicle as a blue Mercury with Maryland tags
Fucking PG County. What a wasteland.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:maybe now people will leash their rat dogs, not just the bigger ones. Don't expect your tiny unleashed dog survive a dog fight with a bigger one. Ss they say don't bring a knife to a gun fight.
How do you define rat dogs? Because a Jack Russell or some of the other smaller terriers are incredibly strong and could tear a hole out of a larger dog...
Anonymous wrote:maybe now people will leash their rat dogs, not just the bigger ones. Don't expect your tiny unleashed dog survive a dog fight with a bigger one. Ss they say don't bring a knife to a gun fight.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Carrying pepper spray on your leash sounds like a really good idea in general, btw...
Because the larger dog owner should have pepper sprayed Freckles?
yes! To avoid him getting EATEN by the larger dog....yes. To get him to back off the way a leash could since he wasnt wearing one, yes.... during which time you can effectively gain control of your own larger dog.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Carrying pepper spray on your leash sounds like a really good idea in general, btw...
Because the larger dog owner should have pepper sprayed Freckles?
Anonymous wrote:Carrying pepper spray on your leash sounds like a really good idea in general, btw...
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My gripe is that OP did not indicate that a dog was murdered. I thought it was a person. I actually wondered about several friends who live in Glover Park!
OP, the dog was not on a leash. Sorry but no sympathy here.
But according to the story the small dog did not leave his yard. Dogs are not required to be leashed in their own yards.
The article says:
Sometimes, said Baroody, when another owner would walk a dog down Tunlaw, Freckles would run off the porch (to the edge of the wall supporting the lawn), and bark.
I dont really understand what this means and if there was a gate or a barrier there. I have to assume no if the larger dog ended up with the smaller on in its mouth. So he should have been leashed. Our dog runs from the porch to the gate sometimes to bark at another dog out of excitement but he cant get into it with the other dog because he is gated. If we take him outside that area he is leashed.
You can blame the larger dog owner for being unfeeling or a jerk for leaving but I dont think he did anything wrong legally here. And sorry but it sounds like his dog was reacting as larger dogs do to a smaller animal. You cant blame him for this if he doesnt have a history of being vicious before now IMO.
It is a horrible tragedy but it is not actionable from what I know.
I assume that means there is a small retaining wall at the sidewalk (usually these are about a foot or so high) and that the small dog was at the top of the retaining wall (in his own yard). Presumably there was not a fence or a gate there. I personally don't like when people let their dogs run in unfenced yards (some in our neighborhood have invisible fences) because you don't really know if the dogs are going to come out, but as far as I know dogs are allowed to be unleashed in their own yards.