Dog Fight Question

[piled-up]

Do you wish you kicked her and not the dog ... No  just kidding ,leaving was best I think.

[Ironhead]

Rowdy,
You did the right thing in leaving, nothing you would have said was gonna change the enraged persons mind.(Dog fight rule #1)  The agressor always gets the boot (Even if it's your own dog). You have to be careful with 2 posturing dogs. If you call your dog off, when he turns from being squared up with the other dog he is vulnerable. The other dog will usually see this as their chance and attack. Never any fun trying to break up a dog fight. Somebody always gets hurt and it is usually the human.

[sisu]

Rowdy,
You did the right thing in leaving, nothing you would have said was gonna change the enraged persons mind.(Dog fight rule #1)  The aggressor always gets the boot (Even if it's your own dog). You have to be careful with 2 posturing dogs. If you call your dog off, when he turns from being squared up with the other dog he is vulnerable. The other dog will usually see this as their chance and attack. Never any fun trying to break up a dog fight. Somebody always gets hurt and it is usually the human.

I agree completely. I have always owned dogs that don't back down from a fight. I wish they would but they don't. My daughter says it is because they take after me! What ever that means...

I'd of driven away too and if I got visited my the police I'd of explained that the lady was going postal and figured the best thing to do was leave.

[benbo30]

i would have done the same , especially since the other dog attacked first , she should have been more responsible of her dog

[Ray]

I might not have kicked theother dog. But I am not sure I might just have.I wasn't there so I will not say if that was or was not the right thing to do. When you decided to leave after she became out of control I think you did right. If someone thinks that they should mace someone else over a dog fight like described - then they are a little nutty. It's amazing to think if she had been mostly polite you might have stayed around instead. Of course it is obvious she thinks her dog is above the leash laws which probably were in place for the area. Or that her dog was somehow in the right as opposed to your dog or something. She's a nut and possibly dumb.

[Rowdy]

I also agree you did the right thing. Is that your pup in your avatar pic? What line of work are you in?

That's him.  I work for a Marine Electronics Co.

Jake

[dontgetcrabs]

I also agree you did the right thing. Is that your pup in your avatar pic? What line of work are you in?

That's him.  I work for a Marine Electronics Co.

Jake

Might be a little tricking finding that kind of work over here.    That's a nice looking dog.

[Rowdy]

Tell me about it, I'm trapped     It's actually an office job, Purchasing Mgr, but I've been here for eleven years so this is the only industry I know      Thanks for the compliment on the pup, he's turning out to be a pretty good bird dog.

Jake

[TEX-X]

hey rowdy you can always enlist in the army if you want to learn a new trade... 

[h2ofowlr]

If another dog would have attacked my dog, I probably would have put the other dog down.  My lab is not a scrapper, but I am sure he would stand his ground.  If another dog charges mine to attack, it has another thing coming.

[Sneaky]

I encounter the same issues all the time walking my labs in renton. People can be very ignorant, I leash my dogs unless there's not anyone else walking their dogs and have never had an issue when my dogs were off the leash. However, I have had several encounters with people who unleash their dogs.

Once I was leaving my driveway when I had my chesapeake and a large rotweiler came trotting over from the neighbors hours, snapping and growling at my dog. I tried to fend the dog off by yelling at it to no avail. I wasn't going to let my duck dog get hurt, so when the dog came after him I kicked the rotweiler in the side as hard as I could. She went limping back to her owner who came out screaming telling me how the dog was pregnant. Then her husband came over that afternoon and told my father and "if you kick my dog, I'll break your leg".... Dad didn't exactly take kindly to that kind of talk and assured the neighbor that he'd either remove himself from the property or find himself on the business end of a winchester 97.

An ugly situation that could've been easily avoided.

[Small_Savage]

I don't think you could have done anything differently.  Dogs are dogs, even the well trained ones aren't going to let themselves get their a$$es handed to them and will do what it takes to defend themselves. 

As for leaving the scene of the doggie mutual combat... there isn't an RCW for that, that I am aware of! 

I'd have been disappointed that she hadn't maced me though, she'd be getting a ride in the po-lice car for doing that to you in that situation.  Kudos for leaving her there and keeping it from escalating even more.  I highly doubt it'll go any farther.

[huntncoug]

It must be something in the water this year, I would have done the same thing you did and have.  Several times this year at pheasant release sites my Lab Blue has been attacked by other hunting dogs.  When hunting he has zero interst in other dogs, they seem to find him.  He is a big 110lb all muscle unclipped male.  He has been attacked 4 times out hunting, once by an Akita, and once by a Chow mix(who brings an Akita or Chow hunting IDK).  He is 4-0, luckily the owners of all these dogs saw what happened and actually appologized after their dogs got there butt whipped.

[taylorpz]

Think you did right all the way around.  I've always figured that if a fight starts, I'm on my dog's side.  I've punted a couple dogs over the years (my dog has always been leashed and the others not on those occasions so I felt pretty much like we were in the right).  I also think it was awesome that you didn't escalate with this lady and kept your cool.  Wish more people could be like that.

[hornhunter]

Two dogs lock up I dont hesitate to kick (the other dog) I also have a GSP.  He is the same, he wont start a fight but if another dog wants to go he doesnt mind scrapping.  Ive never seen him start a fight though.  The reason you kick is becsuse if you stick your hand down there your probably gonna get bit, plus you can kick harder than you can pull or punch.  If a fight starts, the faster you get it stopped the less likely either dog will get hurt.  DONT take your dog to a dog park!  That is fight central.  Most the time 3 or 4 dogs get into it at the dog park and that is a mess, plus there are alot of unhealthy dogs at the dog park, exposing your dog to all types of ilness.  You did the right thing man!  I for sure would have had a few choice words for that woman, but, if she pulled out the mace I would have ran like a little girl