When the two pit bulls went after my ankles, I was not running away from them, but if anything parallel or toward them. And I was on a sidewalk, not in a yard. As I previously posted, the owner didn’t try to call them off. Where was the owner in the case of the pit bull attack of this jogger?
Well, in my experience, I’m not scared of dogs. The one thing I will do is stand up as tall as I can appear, NEVER turn my back to them, and just stare them down.
Problem is that doesn’t work with pit bulls... they can and will attack no matter what.
And I haven;t been bit since I was about 11, so whatever I have been doing, its worked for over 40 years.
I would hope that most people realize that it is in their own interests to keep some sort of restraint on potentially dangerous animals even while on their property. If I had been mauled or even seriously bitten by these pit bulls, I would have sued their owner to hell and back. I won a lawsuit against the owner of a German Shepherd that bit my calf while I was running on the shoulder of a road.
My brother had an episode where some neighbor brought in a couple of pitbulls and just let them run freely. They killed some neighbor’s dog. The local cop wouldn’t do anything. Some neighbor quietly dispatch one of the dog’s to dog heaven, and it got around to the guy who owned the dogs to keep them on a rope or all of the dogs would be shot. Call it rural justice or whatever, but that kind of fixed the problem.