And I am FUMING!!!
Just finishing our walk and approaching my house when I heard ' come here, come here' Sh!t I thought, an off leader. Couldn't believe it when I saw it was my worst nightmare - a Staff!
It charged straight up to us, I stood still and Flynn had his playful 'Husky ears' on. The frigging thing just launched an attack and went for his neck. I loosened Flynns lead so as he could defend himself and a stand up kinda brawl started in the middle of the road - all the time me saying to it's owner 'quick get his lead on' the owner being a good 20 yards away - as they always bloody well are! The two dogs stopped for a second and stood looking at each other and the Staff attacked again, Flynns throat this time the target, under the chin area. So it all kicked off again, by this time my son and daughter were out of my house, son effing and blinding at the guy, who eventually managed to get a chain round his dogs neck. He was saying ' I'm sorry but he has a broken lead' my son said oh ***k off, he's always off the ******g lead. I said 'he tried to get Flynn in the summer and I had just managed to get him into the back garden, so you know he's dog aggressive, he should never be off lead - not ever!' I also said Flynn is always on lead as you well know' because we see this guy often when we walk locally. My daughter said 'It's people like you that give these dogs a sh!t reputaion, you should be ashamed!'
He got well and truly slagged off and his b******d Staff got a lovely gashed lip for it's troubles. Luckily Flynn has a very thick coat in the neck area and not a mark on him, the blood on his neck was from the Staffs injury.
My boy was fantastic, once the Staff was on lead he just stood looking at it, no aggression or nervousness whatsoever, so proud of how he behaved. He defended himself but didn't want to carry on the fight at all. As soon as it was over I took him back out to show him everything was okay and he was just his normal self, no nerves at all.
As for the other dog - this time the aggressive little B took on a Mal, instead of the usual small dog target and got his come uppance, lets hope he learns a lesson from that!
Flynn had a wander in the garden and is now doing what he always does after a walk - as if nothing had happened.
For me all the incident has done is reinforce my prejudice , which is a shame!
Just finishing our walk and approaching my house when I heard ' come here, come here' Sh!t I thought, an off leader. Couldn't believe it when I saw it was my worst nightmare - a Staff!
It charged straight up to us, I stood still and Flynn had his playful 'Husky ears' on. The frigging thing just launched an attack and went for his neck. I loosened Flynns lead so as he could defend himself and a stand up kinda brawl started in the middle of the road - all the time me saying to it's owner 'quick get his lead on' the owner being a good 20 yards away - as they always bloody well are! The two dogs stopped for a second and stood looking at each other and the Staff attacked again, Flynns throat this time the target, under the chin area. So it all kicked off again, by this time my son and daughter were out of my house, son effing and blinding at the guy, who eventually managed to get a chain round his dogs neck. He was saying ' I'm sorry but he has a broken lead' my son said oh ***k off, he's always off the ******g lead. I said 'he tried to get Flynn in the summer and I had just managed to get him into the back garden, so you know he's dog aggressive, he should never be off lead - not ever!' I also said Flynn is always on lead as you well know' because we see this guy often when we walk locally. My daughter said 'It's people like you that give these dogs a sh!t reputaion, you should be ashamed!'
He got well and truly slagged off and his b******d Staff got a lovely gashed lip for it's troubles. Luckily Flynn has a very thick coat in the neck area and not a mark on him, the blood on his neck was from the Staffs injury.
My boy was fantastic, once the Staff was on lead he just stood looking at it, no aggression or nervousness whatsoever, so proud of how he behaved. He defended himself but didn't want to carry on the fight at all. As soon as it was over I took him back out to show him everything was okay and he was just his normal self, no nerves at all.
As for the other dog - this time the aggressive little B took on a Mal, instead of the usual small dog target and got his come uppance, lets hope he learns a lesson from that!
Flynn had a wander in the garden and is now doing what he always does after a walk - as if nothing had happened.
For me all the incident has done is reinforce my prejudice , which is a shame!