This is my dog, he's big, daft and because he isn't always good with other dogs he is kept on a tight reign when out in public.
Over the last week or so my son has been taking him for a walk with his friend and his dog to get him used to being around other dogs. On the walk today he not only played with his friends dog but had friendly meeting with a couple of other German Shepherds. This was a first as he tends to not like other big dogs.
At the end of his run around the park my son put him back on his lead to walk him home when a dog came running over and after a little time of sniffing each other the dog attacked ours without warning biting at his face. Our dog responded by going for it's throat and pinning it to the floor before my son pulled him back and away from this dog. The other dog wasn't injured and finally it's owner ran over, put his dog on a lead and walked away without a word, just a slight nod of his head.
It was only then my son on checking him over noticed he was bleeding just above his eye, you can see below how close that injury from the dogs teeth came to taking out his eye.
Our dog could have caused serious injury to the other dog but chose to just over-power it and then allowed my son to pull it back. (Yes he allowed that to happen as if he was really nasty my son wouldn't have been able to pull him off.)
Tonight I'm still angry that a dog owner allowed his dog to run free in a park and attack my dog and didn't even apologise or ask if our dog was OK.
I've been walking my dog and seen as other dog owners let their dog run free as they come up barking at us while I put my dog on a lead and control him while they just shout their dogs name from across the park and it doesn't listen or follow their commands.
I have a big dog and make sure he is always under control in public so why do owners of medium or small dogs act in such an irresponsible way in allowing an untrained animal run free?
Our dog is OK and has had lots of fuss and treats for the way he acted today after being attacked.