My 30 pound dog was attacked by three unleashed pit bulls

[hollysmom]

201. 2 things

I am very sorry this happened to you, it is horrible, I hope this trauma does not last long. My dog was attacked by a seeing eye dog that was loose once, but once I realized what was happening, when he had my dog in his teeth, I started yelling bad dog and and it let go. I was lucky. we bad dogged it back until we got it back to the owner's home. Another time I was surrounded by a pack of mixed breed dogs in the city, but a bus came and I jumped on and escaped them.

I had heard the way to make a pit bull let go (or any dog) is to grab the inside thigh of the dog and squeeze. Most people go for the neck and that is pretty strong.

second thing is I have watched pit bulls in the shelter, walked and cared for them and found them sweeter than some other dogs - collies are short tempered for sure. the problem with pit bulls is they are bread to have strong jaws, other than that, you are probably just as much in danger with any other large breed.


The owner is responsible for every thing that goes wrong. When my relatively unsocialized dog got out., i feel I was responsible for anything she did, which was basically poop on other people's lawns. but dos should be on leashes unless in dog park, and in our dog park we have a woman who believes she is the dog park police and bans people who's dogs misbehave. We have had a few incidents, but they were "banned" and we have not seen them again. I keep an emergency medical kit in my car for these incidents with gauze and antiseptic, etc.