Dog Attack

[Guest Anonymous]

First attack like this I ever remember in this area. :x
And the dog was with its owner even! :evil: Bet she didn't have it on a leash.


Appleton, Wisconsin
Dog, Owner Sought After Attack

Appleton police are looking for the owner of a dog that attacked and killed a smaller dog.

Police say the dog was killed outside a home on North Knollwood around 4:30 last Friday afternoon.

The larger dog is described as a black and white Alaskan husky. It was wearing a body harness and was being walked by a woman described as having blonde hair and being in her 40s or 50s.

[Shannon_C]

More than likely not. Oh thats terrible news...very sad :evil:

Going back years now, when I was at school. I was trying to find the owner of this little male Jack Russel Terrier, so I started knocking on doors locally and in the flats, had no luck so I decided to go back outside and was confronted by this Labrador that I knew of its owner. She never had him on the lead and he wasn't neutered either, he would try to mount children nearby,....most of the time he would be out on his own...well this one day he spotted the Jack Russel and came charging straight over, picked him up and shook him. I was panicking, screaming, shouting to get him off....eventually his owner came over and got him..everyone was just standing there watching (i ask)...so I got the little terrier and found that he had a deep bite on his back. His owner did come forward!

But it goes to show the dangers of lose dogs running lose.

[Guest Anonymous]

I will never understand why people run around with their dogs off lead. It's one thing if they are going from car to house or vice versa. But taking them for a walk around the neighborhood loose is just asking for trouble IMO.

Oh, and if a dog tried mounting one of my kids...watch out! No way would I tolerate that. :-?

[Guest Anonymous]

yeah mounting is a domination thing and should be nipped quite sternly. But there are a lot of people in my neighborn=hood that do that too. i get so upset because my dogs are on lead and then this dog comes running up barking and i have to hold my dogs to keep them from killing some goofballs dog as he stands across the street calling it. I HATE THAT!!!!!!

put a leash on your dog for its own safety no matter how well you think your dog may be trained you have to look out for the other guy. i know my dogs would be great off-lead because we train that way but with certain distractions or when another dog comes running up there is no way to be certain what your dog will do especially if the other dog is aggressives and initiates an attack. so why chance it, i have another good question though, if you were walking your dog an anothe dog ran up and started a fight would you continue to pull your dog back knowing that you are directly impeading on its ability to defend itself or do you drop the leash knowing that will intensify the fight buy your dogs chances will be better as far as defense and even survival goes? and noone else is around we are talkinga bout a stray dog here no owner and no passersby.

im curious about you guys here so lets hear it

[Poofy]

If I had a dog try to attack one of mine...the dog would be dead. I am sorry. I would have to tollerance for that. I love my little guys too much. I have good aim and I can kick hard enough to knock one out if not kill it and if thats what it took to protect one of my own I would. This is a constant worry of mine especially with my little guys...I won't even walk them on a show site where there are larger breed dogs.
Years ago, when my golden boy was alive, I was attacked by some stray dogs. These dogs were true curs, living off the land, so to speak, and they were dangerous. If my dog had not been there I would have been badly mauled if not killed. He was an over sized dog (probably mixed with pyr looking back and knowing what i know now) and took on all the dogs and won. There was nothing I could have done to protect or stop him.
Later on when I was working a pyr with livestock, he brought down many neighborhood dogs who tried to kill his goats and fowl. (he and the animals were fenced) Our neighbor who once had 14 + dogs who lived under her trailer, and bred willy nilly, wound up having none by the end of the summer. It was sad, but that was why the dog was there...to take care of predators. He's dead now, burried up on the hill he used to sit and watch over his animals. I sold all the goats...the geese are still around though. The remaining stray dogs in the area remember him though and still steer clear of our property. I cannot take my dogs for walks in this area because I know that other people let their animals run loose..and I am afraid for my own pets safety....so we stay at home, in our own yard, where it is fenced and secure from the neighbor hood strays. I would hate to have to kill some one else's dog in defense of my own...but I would do it.

[Guest Anonymous]

Lets specify using a situatio ni read about the other day you are out in the early a.m. walking the dog before work you round the corner and are greeted by a rather large bull breed diggin in a trash can. the dog barely even sees you when your dog rounds the corner and lets out a little bark. the other dog immediately perks up and comes trotting over tail held high and hackels up clearly aggressive. without even sniffing your dog is starts an attack. YOu have the option of hold the leash and trying to pull your dog which just excites a bully the option of kicking and hitting it( yeah, that will work) or watching your dog in a fight to the death. now with this scenario it is a little more chilling because the outcome is a little more inevitable. There is little that you can do to calm an excited bully, the odds that your dog is going to win the fight unless it is a bully itself are also pretty slim. The sad fact is that you would probably have to jump the neartest fence to save your own life, and hopefully you may be able to throw your dog over too. That is the situation a woman in MI found herself in a few weeks ago. she had to toss he dog over a fence into someone yard to save it the dog still bit her pretty bad but her dog which was a smaller breed was saved. Michigan has a real problem with dogs, pitbull mixes for the most part, fighting and running rampant.

Now before anyone takes offense i am a bully owner and lover, it was just an interesting thought and i wondered what you would do in the situation.

[Guest Anonymous]

I too carry a spare but it is a a short lead, its like the handle of a regular leash with a big bull clip on it. i carry it because the easiest way to control daz when he gets excited is with a little short lead as opposed to him getting a 6 foot start and lunging after a squirrel or something. but in that situation i would grab the bully dog if there was a collar my dogs are very controlable by voice alone and i know i could get him down once i got the other dog. you know that drop in your stomach when you realize "oh, crap" that would suck so bad to be in that situation.

[Crested]

I have bad experiences about this too. :cry:
My ex neighbour had always had German Shepards as long as I can remember. (only one at a time, but still)
The first one nearly killed a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel while she was loose!! :cry:
The second one was just mad! They kept him only for about 6 months before they gave him away. :cry:
The third one was a nightmare! Let me tell his story. When he was a puppy, they used to play with him a lot. He was a very nice and playfull puppy. Just adorable. Guess what they did to him. They hit him every time he was bad! (And how many times a day does a puppy do bad things?) Once when he was little, he escaped to our yard. He came to me wagging his tail and he was just plain adorable. You could see he was happy when he saw me (of some reason have dogs always liked me since I was a baby). When the neighbourg noticed this he came yelling and screaming to get him. Never even laid any notice to me. Guess how bad I felt afterwards.
When the dog was about 6 months old they put up a kennel cage on their back yard. There the dog spent the rest of his life. Barking, screaming, jumping against the walls. It was just plain horrible. Then one winter while he was off leash on the ice came a man with a tiny papillon. I don't know how everything went but the point is that the German Shepard KILLED the Papillon. Guess what the owner (my ex neighbourg said. Arrogantly as always: "Well, insurance will pay.".
He got MANY complaints of the dog that barked in the cage from dawn till dusk all year around. It didn't matter how cold it was outside. The dog was out and stayed out. Where else would it stay when they were out partying and drinking?
Finally Ben came to our house. On the second day that Ben was here, I took him out to our back yard. The German Shepard was in his cage. When he saw Ben I could see the rage in his eyes! The hair on his neck rise up and he growled and barked at poor little Ben that was only 7 weeks old. That dog nearly jumped over the fence and Ben wet himself then and there. I rushed him inside just to be on the safe side. I wan't going to let that dog kill Ben too! From that moment Ben has been afraid of other dogs. TERRIFIED of German Shepards.
To make a long story short, the neighbourg went bankrupt and lost his house. They had to move and dogs weren't allowed in the new place. Well the "only logical thing to do" was to kill the dog. :cry:

Even if I hated what the dog did, I don't blame him. I blame the neighbourg. Luckilly he is my EX neighbourg!
But the thing is, that dog was SO smart. One day I was on my yard with Ben and he started barking again. I just said with a very low and growling voice (Note: I didn't scream or yell.): "No! Quiet!". He calmed down instantly! After that I offcourse said: "Good dog!". But the fact is: a dog that is so smart and so intelligent shouldn't have been locked up in a cage from dawn untill dusk and given the final shot (vaccine) when you couldn't keep him anymore.

The sad part is that the neighbourgs oldest daughter has allso German Shepards and treats them as badly too. No one can do anything else then just pray and cry. But that doesn't help that much now does it? :cry:


Ben has finally noticed that not all dogs are bad. He has gotten a coulple friends from Bichon Havanases. But he is still very scared of them. Thoose menthal scars he got that one day will take a lot of time to heal. I'm just glad that the healing process has started.

/Crest

[Poofy]

If i were to walk my dogs...if I lived in a neighborhood or in a village...I would do one of two things..maybe both. Carry a walking stick and a vile of pepper mace. By darn I would use both if need be.

[Crested]

I just think it's so sad. :cry:
The thing that is more upsetting is the fact that if a purebred dog attacks someone, it at the same time labels the entire breed. Hasn't it done it with Doberman's, Rottweiler's, German Shepards and other "dangerous" dogs?
No one even THINKS that it's not the dog's fault. :cry: