I have to rant and rave here now because I’m fighting with my wife which will probably come out here. It’s quiet, no yelling or anything, that’s the only important thing.
The care-giver thing is a real thing in our lives and we never dealt with it or we do the only way we know how which is not good and we put fires out. They always stay smoldering though.
So the dog thing is so ugly and it triggers me so badly and I don’t mind saying I HATE dog people, and their plucking dogs, which they lack the brains and emotional well being to deal with properly.
The main problem being irresponsible behavior on the part of the people except 10% of the time that’s the good ones .
The rest of them meaning you If you’re reading this belong behind bars or at least shouldn’t be allowed to own a dog or drive a car or have a child. Hahah I’m so angry!
So I look up as we are walking along minding our business, making wide sweeps to avoid the dog morons throwing balls and so forth and letting the dogs off the leash, and I see this dog charging from about 30 yds out. He’s charging a dog on a leash, a woman alone walking it.
The charging dog’s intention is difficult to assess. It’s charging. I’ve seen this end up playfully, and also not so well, like this one. This in my opinion constitutes assault already and I’d feel justified taking any and all action to defend myself regardless of anything, I’m being charged by an unleashed dog. Anything can happen. That’s assault.
And it was assault as you’ll see, even though the charging dog was lucky it got off so easy. When the two dogs stopped for a second, right up on each other it was obvious right away what was going to happen, a horrendous viscous dog fight.
The poor lady holding the leash didn’t have a chance, the dogs immediately went at it and the bigger one, still on the leash, got the smaller one, the unfortunate aggressor, by the throat and went for the kill, bending it I’ve backwards and thrashing it to break it’s neck.
At this point the unleashed fiends owner , a man, comes running in to try and separate the dogs , most likely in response to his poor pooches screams for mercy, and a wrestling match ensued. Both parties and the dogs, ended up in the surf. Prone on the beach and soaked, the dogs still tearing at each other. (It was very one way though the smaller dog didn’t really get a lick in.). I got this last part on film though poorly as I was wishing by that point I was anywhere else.
The gentleman, and I use the term loosely, had some unkind words for the victim once they got up, separated the dogs, and he tripped on the tied dogs leash in a very ungraceful attempt at an exit from a sticky situation.
I walked up to the woman and spoke with her . She was visibly shaken and soaked and her dog , though victorious, looked much the worse for wear also and I’d say as an observer and former long term dog owner, it had only acted in self defense.
I told her I was sorry, that I had witnessed the whole thing and she wasn’t at fault. She thanked me poor thing. Then I started going on about the loose dogs and left her before both of us were shaking and nearly crying, which she was .
