Glad to that the little rascal is good.
I was walking one of my black and tan coonhounds last summer, and a couple came along with a German shepherd. Their dog clearly wanted to come over, so I asked if he was friendly, they assured me he was. As soon as the shepherd was close, he tried to latch onto the hound’s neck. For some reason I was expecting trouble and had the German by the neck real quick then proceeded to beat it in the back of the neck and base of skull. The stunned owners didn’t even react, they just stood there. The German was quite dazed, so I was able to remove my hound, and even after all that, my hound was still wagging his tail and wanting to play lol.
Had a pit try to attack my last black and tan years ago. The pit lunged, and the hound just folded on himself, I’ve never seen the likes, then the pit closed on empty air and before I could even say anything or move my hound had the pit by his neck pinned on the ground. He showed great restraint though and didn’t really hurt the other dog. I sure love those coonhounds heh. I’ve never seen such good dogs with kids, but when danger comes, they’re fierce protectors.
14 months ago I got a little lab puppy. Last summer at a dog park a lady brought her pit bull to the park. I always stayed close to my lab to make sure he was OK. For no reason, the pit bull started to growl and I could see he was about to attack. So I picked my puppy up and spun around to put myself between the pit bull and my puppy. The thing came around and jumped up to attack FIVE TIMES finally biting my puppy on the paw and drawing blood. Others quickly hustled the pit away. I was Irate and started to go after the pit bull, but needed to take care of my little guy and while doing so the lady hustled the pit bull out of the park and away.
Another time at another park a lady brought her pit bull in and it went after my puppy with no provocation. She pulled it away but it broke loose and went after him again. I then jumped on it, got my hands around it’s throat with all my weight pinning it to the ground and I dug my thumbs so deep into its throat it screamed in pain. I then allowed the lady to put its leash on and take it away. I later learned that dog has a history of being a problem and has attacked other dogs with no provocation.
This is what motivated me more than anything else to take the class and get my ccw which I should have in a couple months. If anything like that we’re to happen again, I will pull out my gun and simply empty the entire magazine into the pit bull. I will. Not. Stop. And not one jury in this country would convict me of anything given pits’ reputation. For that reason, I doubt any DA would even charge me with anything.
One of my dogs’ good buddies is a pit bull so it’s not all of them, but of the real aggressive problem dogs, pit bulls make up a large percentage. I’m very leery of them until I know the dog well.
German Shepard’s scare me. I was babysitting my neighbors two Shepard’s when I was a kid about 14 or so. I would play with them in the yard and such. One day I went over to feed them they turned on me and I beat it outta there. I came home and asked my dad to go over and feed them. He did and i never messed with them again.