Today at 11.30 my husband was walking our EBT, he decided not to walk him through the golf course where there is a public walk through as lately there are too many numbskulls with dogs off lead who have no recall what so ever. In the winter there are only true dog walkers whos dogs are well trained and respond to there owners, as soon as the sun comes out all the other dog owners come out, so my husband avoided the golf course and walked round our estate where he thought if there were any other dogs they would be on the lead. Chris, my husband was only gone around 15 mins and i had gone to my sons close to where the incident took place when a lady knocked on my sons door and told me my dog and husband had been bitten. A lady in her early sixties was walking her staffie my husband avoided her and her dog by crossing over the road mainly because my dog is nervous of other dogs as he has been attacked and bitten twice before, once quite badly, any way the staff saw my dog and chris said it lunged across the road at our dog, the lady let go of the lead and it just started attacking our dog my husband tried to restrain our dog but as a result he was getting bitten around the face and neck my husband had no choice but to let our dog defend him self, chris tried to get hold of the other dogs lead and pull him back and the dog bit his hand and locked on, my husband could not get the dog off so he pulled his hand free meanwhile our dog had locked on to the staff and the owner of the staff was hitting our dog with her hand bag. My husband is in hospital with a badly bitten hand our dog is grazed and cut around his face and mouth which in the circumstances got off lightly, i have reported it to the police and they are coming to take a statement when he comes out of hospital, i dont know what the answer is but is there know where to walk a dog safetly any more. Not where we live any way.

just hope they do somethng about the other dog,
hope your hubby gets better very soon.

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I hope your husband recovers quickly.

God I hate it when people get dogs they cant control or even worse let their dogs off the lead..

I am terrafied of dogs I dont know and people round here let their dogs walk without being on a lead.. it's so bloody ignorant how people do that, they dont care they may be intimidating other people or even posing a threat to other people.

GRRR REALLY P*SSES ME OFF!

I feel absolutely terrible for you, you husband and dog and hope you all recover soon!!
It makes me sick all the people who take on potentially dangerous dogs when they have no experience in handling or training them.

Where I lived there was a Staffi craze, silly young girls with tough dogs and my babies were in a buggy at their eye level - it terrified me!

Hope you get the result you want with the police.
Emily

In this case you cannot blame the dog blame the owner is totally to blame. You cannot blame a dog if it's owner lets go of the lead. All I can say is the poor dog will probably pay the ultimate price being an 'oldie' the woman will probably get off scott free, yet she should be punished for allowing such an incident. If she couldn't find the strength to hold onto the dog then perhaps she shouldn't own it, let alone walk it.

I hope your husband makes a speedy recovery...and your own dog

This story is terrible

wat the fook is a lady of that age doing wiv a powerfull dog she obviously cannot control???? that is wat gets me going because of this ur husband has ended up in hospital which could easily of been alot worse and avoided, and ur dog is cut and bruiced

Now its storys like this (because of this lady ) again is why these sort of dogs get a terrible name...because the owners cannot control the dogs or just blaitanly know they cant handle it but take it out anyways taking a big chance.

i really hope ur husband gets well soon and ur dog hasnt been to shaken up by this attack

if people cant recall their dog it shouldn't be off a lead!
i hope your dog and husband make a speedy recovery...

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it wasnt of the lead ...a lady of 60 odd was walking it and obviously couldnt handle it so let the lead go

Thanks everyone,

shouldnt be off a lead full stop!

There's too many stupid people with dogs... as said above, it's these people who are responsible for giving certain breeds a bad name