Big Dog vs. Small Dog

lostinrates

adouglasmhor wrote: »

The dog that attacked my greyhound, first barked at it from a distance then when my dog barked back, it ran up and tried to bite his legs. My dog butted it off it's feet and growled over it - at which point it tailtucked and whined then ran back to it's owner.
The owner did not look at me or atempt to apologise, I will be having a word with the throbber if I ever see him and I have someone else to hold my dogs or am on my own without them.

My dogs are always on the lead unless in a secure paddock or fenced garden. The one that was attacked has a yellow collar witht the word nervous on it in large print as he is skittish around other dogs, having been attacked before.

Tbf, I wouldn't want an owner to approach me to apologise after that situation, If they could call over and apologise fine, but otherwise I'd rather keep the dogs apart.


My greyhound was attacked some four and a half years ago by a terrier. It frequently roamed the rural roads around my parents house ( where the dog was, I was out) and often used to ' yap' at the gate so ours would wander down and bark back. One day it came in and launched an attack on my dog.

Interestingly, my dog harbours no resentment to other dogs and continues to socialise beautifully, but the vet who attended was, my mother relayed, some what rough ( the terriers owner was a friend) and she has been resistant to men she doesn't know entering the property since, so we have to be very vigilant and work through this with her.

Person_one

gettingready wrote: »

Train what?

Your dog to be calm and not react when it is attacked by another dog?

What planet are you from?

The word 'attacked' has only been used as the thread has gone on, it wasn't in the first post. Previously it was yapping and 'having a go' apparently.

DavidF

I think the owner of the small dog is person one and he/she wants the op to retrain his husky so that his little dog can run about with gay abandon with little to no "manners" yapping, snarling and generally being aggressive.....It is ok though because it is only a "small dog"....The issue is clearly the out of control dog....the one who was on the loose.

Person_one

DavidF wrote: »

I think the owner of the small dog is person one and he/she wants the op to retrain his husky so that his little dog can run about with gay abandon with little to no "manners" yapping, snarling and generally being aggressive.....It is ok though because it is only a "small dog"....The issue is clearly the out of control dog....the one who was on the loose.

Actually, I regularly take issue on here with people who seem to believe that because a dog has a less than perfect owner, that their safety doesn't matter and that its somehow not a problem if they get injured because, hey, it was the owner's fault anyway.

lostinrates

DavidF wrote: »

I think the owner of the small dog is person one and he/she wants the op to retrain his husky so that his little dog can run about with gay abandon with little to no "manners" yapping, snarling and generally being aggressive.....It is ok though because it is only a "small dog"....The issue is clearly the out of control dog....the one who was on the loose.

Where as I worry that people who cannot discuss this issue without being personal, or confrontational are walking dogs.


People threatening other people or feeling so 'defensive' here might well be walking their dogs with such attitudes. When there is difficulty we as owners need to remain calm and balanced and not inflame a situation.

If our dogs behaved as some here and on similar threads are doing we and our dogs all be in trouble.

krlyr

Person_one wrote: »

The word 'attacked' has only been used as the thread has gone on, it wasn't in the first post. Previously it was yapping and 'having a go' apparently.

My posts have always stated that I feel it depends on whether the reaction was proportionate to the incident, and that I was basing my posts on the assumption that the smaller dog was acting aggressively/that 'having a go' meant an attack. Not having witnessed what happened, I can only base my opinion on my interpretation of the OP's post and the info given.

Person_one

gettingready wrote: »

If a human approached you and shouted at you while getting closer and was having a go at you - would you not consider this an attack and react?

Stop trolling around, you are truly pathetic in your views on this thread.

I wouldn't punch them in the face, or physically attack them in any other way, would you?

gettingready

Yes I would - if I felt this was necessary to keep myself safe.

And I would not expect my dog to patiently wait for something like this to happen.

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adouglasmhor

Person_one wrote: »

Imagine for just a second how it would feel if a husky picked up one of your cats and had it in its teeth. Don't tell me your heart wouldn't practically stop.

The cat would have to be unbeleviably stupid to attack a large dog on a lead.

adouglasmhor

gettingready wrote: »

Train what?

Your dog to be calm and not react when it is attacked by another dog?

What planet are you from?

Well I have been trained to be calm under attack, give the dog 35 years of martial arts experience and a few years in the Army. Oh wait I can still panic occasionaly and I have an IQ a wee bit higher than a dogs, and I have never met a dog of 50+ years old.