Dear Ignorant Woman at the Park,
Butterfinger and I were walking our two dogs along the cement walk, minding our own business, following park regulations, and chatting about life, when your vicious poodle decided to charge 20 feet from your little tent party. Not only did the dog run at us like a wild banshee, it was growling and snapping the entire time, eventually trying to bite my dog. While my dogs are much better trained and obedient than your mentally defective pup, and will not go out in search of fights, they will sure as hell finish them when provoked.
I appreciate that you had a leash on your dog, as it did make it much easier for Butterfinger to hoist it off the ground by its neck when it would not stop trying to attack my dog, but maybe in the future you should hold the other end of the leash so your idiot dog does not get eaten. Also in the future, you may want to actually get off your lazy ass when your dog decides to grow some balls and picks on much cooler dogs about 40x his puny size. I know your Uncle Charlie was probably telling some funny jokes, and I can only imagine how delicious the potato salad was, but your dog was inches away from asking for a serious maming, and you just sat there completely oblivious to what was going on. You are lucky that the young boy, not even with your party, reached out to take the dog when he did, otherwise I think Butterfinger might have thrown his snarky little ass over in your direction in an attempt to break you free from your gluttonous state of ignoring your surroundings.
I am not worried about my dog. Guapo is pretty much invincible, and a butterfly bandage would quickly heal any kind of wound your neurologically impaired dog could provide, but I really like to avoid this type of negative publicity for my dogs. They already have enough bullsh*t to deal with regarding BSL and my annoying neighbor, and I really do not want to add a Poodle dinner to that list. So please, enroll your dog in some canine good behavior classes, try to take steps to curb his aggression, and for god’s sake, hold the other end of his leash!
Share ThisAugust 4th, 2008 | Friendly Encounters, Natural Disasters, Adventures with Dogs
Bravo, well done! I’m only sad you weren’t able to get that owner’s attention more directly — but you KNOW Guapo would have been blamed so *sigh* it’s a stroke of good luck that he was kewl enough to let it go.
It’s remarkable how quickly some dogs can acquire a sense of turf over public property. It spawns fights.
The bad ‘tude towards bull breeds is the equivalent of human racism. Some dogs are presumed guilty any time something bad happens,
Comment by Mars Bar — August 4, 2008 @ 4:42 pm