Well crap.
There's a little dog that lives across the street that always runs loose. He likes to taunt Shiloh when she's tethered out front so she can be with my while I'm working on whatever. The little dogs like to prance around just beyond Shiloh's' reach. Kinda like he's going "neener neener neener...". Shiloh gets furious about that.
This afternoon while I was working on the Willys it happened again. But this time Shiloh's tether popped loose.
I yelled at Shiloh to stop, but she had lock and tone, and was beyond listening. She caught the dog in the middle of the street and began shaking it like a rat. She was going for the kill.
I grabbed Shiloh and tried to pull her back, but the little dog was caught up in what was left of Shiloh's tether and wasn't falling free. And Shiloh didn't want to quit. Before I knew it, I was tangled in the tether as well and fell onto the street with them. I got a good grip on Shiloh and was keeping her from doing any more damage when I felt the other dog's teeth sink into my left wrist. (I don't really fault it for that, he was scared and fighting for his life and didn't understand I was trying to save him.)
The dog also chewed up the arm of the guy who owns him. I don't know which of us got bit worse, but his arm was a lot bloodier.
In the aftermath, it looked like the dog had a chest muscle torn loose that was knotted up under the skin over his ribs. He's gonna be hurting for a while.
The dog's family are good people. I hope we can work through this.
I hope so too
Had anything been said about this going on before hand.
Even the most mellow dog will hit that point in teasing when....well they just snap.
You know one of those guys that seems to have a story about almost everything, I think that is me.
As a kid my aunt had a dog, I basically lived over there so I will say we from now on. We also had two siamese cats. These two ass holes are why I hate cats....but I am mellowing in my old age.
These cats are just jerks to the dogs, they are suppose to stay up stairs with a pretty cool gate my uncle made up, he was a hobby wood worker, but the cats just did what they wanted to do. They dog by this point would just eye them when they bounced from counter to counter, book case to TV, you know. If the cats got in more of an ass hole mood they would bounce back and forth over the dog, the dog would start to real low grrrr. You know dogs have different grrr's. This grrr is the I am going to rip every thing off your body and it will hurt the entire time, and I don't care what happens before during or after I will kill you quick and painfully. When the adults would hear that grrr they would get the cat and put it upstairs. Sometimes it would stay today it would not. I bet they relocated it three times.
The cat slipped and hit the floor, Mitten (I don't know how to type what we called her) think of starting to say the word mitten, then get punched in the stomach right after you get the M out...as close as I can get)
Cat hits the floor and the dog was on it quick as anything, huge fight lots of blood, this was a shorter long dog, bulldog, basset mix, very low very powerful. Very strong bite. Well the dog "won". It did require a visit to the emergency vet as the cat did scratch the dogs eye about in half. I can't imagine how bad that hurt, but she was very cool the ride there. The cat IIRC ended up in three different parts, I know basically ripped in half, with one leg in front of the fire place.
The girls went to their room and cried, my drunk mother went upstairs with the crying girls, My aunt took the dog to the vet, and my uncle and I cleaned up the mess. I guess I was around 10 at the time. It was gross but it really did not bother me. We put it all in a trash bag and put it out in the trash. No harsh cleaners on the wood floor, just soap and water. Not much blood on the wall. The other cat stayed upstairs after that on its own. I guess they are smart to some degree.
She was a fantastic dog, even after that with basically one eye, it was real cloudy after that, she was a force not to screw with. I told the story about her ground squirrel days.
Hope you guys all make it through this ok, the way I see it is your dog is secured the other is not. The other owner had to know that kind of action is not going to end with anything good. And is a reinforcement for not acceptable behavior.
Eh could keep babbling said enough
good luck to you both.