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I think my dog is having an honest-to-gods adrenalin crash right now. I didn't know that actually happened to dogs. *blinks*
There's two terriers down our way which tend to zoom out and bark and snarl at things that pass them. Today, they actually came in together to attack me and the pup while we were walking home. Usually if I crouch and snarl back, it dissuades them, but there was the two of them together today, so I guess they had a pack thing going on and thought it would work.
You can't run, especially not from terriers, and especially not when your dog is on a lead and can't protect himself properly. So it ended with me crouched defensively over my dog, with him snapping at them and me turning slightly to keep an arm between them and him at all times.
We were rescued, more or less, when the terriers' owners finally came out and tried to gather them up, and when our neighbours came out to help stand between us and them while I got my pup in the door.
It wasn't that bad, really. Not a scratch on either me or the pup, because it never actually came to a fight fight despite the little bastards' cockiness. But my dog has actually just collapsed on the couch inside like the energy has just been cut out from under him, almost dead to the world, and it looks for all the world like an adrenalin crash. *blinks* I guess he was a lot more scared than I thought.
*shakes head* I didn't know that could happen to dogs. But I'm giving thought to bringing a stick with me next time, just for the home stretch. I can leave it in a bush for the walk proper and collect it on the way back. I mean, I was planning on punching if either of them came close enough to actually hurt us today, but a stick might dissuade them before it comes to that? It'll also give me longer reach to keep them back, so hopefully it doesn't come down to anyone getting hurt.
Oi. Honestly. What a day.
There's two terriers down our way which tend to zoom out and bark and snarl at things that pass them. Today, they actually came in together to attack me and the pup while we were walking home. Usually if I crouch and snarl back, it dissuades them, but there was the two of them together today, so I guess they had a pack thing going on and thought it would work.
You can't run, especially not from terriers, and especially not when your dog is on a lead and can't protect himself properly. So it ended with me crouched defensively over my dog, with him snapping at them and me turning slightly to keep an arm between them and him at all times.
We were rescued, more or less, when the terriers' owners finally came out and tried to gather them up, and when our neighbours came out to help stand between us and them while I got my pup in the door.
It wasn't that bad, really. Not a scratch on either me or the pup, because it never actually came to a fight fight despite the little bastards' cockiness. But my dog has actually just collapsed on the couch inside like the energy has just been cut out from under him, almost dead to the world, and it looks for all the world like an adrenalin crash. *blinks* I guess he was a lot more scared than I thought.
*shakes head* I didn't know that could happen to dogs. But I'm giving thought to bringing a stick with me next time, just for the home stretch. I can leave it in a bush for the walk proper and collect it on the way back. I mean, I was planning on punching if either of them came close enough to actually hurt us today, but a stick might dissuade them before it comes to that? It'll also give me longer reach to keep them back, so hopefully it doesn't come down to anyone getting hurt.
Oi. Honestly. What a day.
