{"id":2446,"date":"2009-06-23T09:49:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T07:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2446"},"modified":"2009-06-23T10:23:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T08:23:07","slug":"why-you-should-leash-your-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/2446","title":{"rendered":"Why You Should Leash Your Dogs!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bailey<\/a>
Bailey in his Medical Pet Shirt<\/a>, so much nicer than a big ugly cone!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sunday  night Xander and I went out with the dogs at about 10pm.  As we were walking along Xander was telling me how he met up with a guy a few nights ago with two big Staffordshire\u2019s off their leashes, and when Xander reminded him about the leash law the guy told him off. Then he was telling me how dangerous it is because if one of those dogs ever got a hold of a smaller dog, the dog would be dead, as they have such strong jaws.<\/p>\n

I shit you not.  No sooner did he get the words out of his mouth than around the corner comes this GIANT Rottweiler barreling towards us.  It all happened so fast it’s a blur; the dog ran up, grabbed Bailey in his jaws and started shaking him around like a rag doll.  It was a NIGHTMARE! The words Xander said were still fresh in my mind and I thought oh my god, I’m watching my dog get KILLED!!! I don’t remember being that frightened in a long time, it was so scary! <\/p>\n

Xander managed to get a hold of Bailey and the owner of the other dog (a young white guy probably in his mid to late 20’s) grabbed a hold of his dog and they managed to get them apart. Xander picked up Bailey and his stomach was all full of blood, and that was it, I totally lost my shit and started screaming at the guy and didn’t stop for about 10 minutes.  He kept trying to get us to calm down but we were losing it.  I mean it’s the LAW here in the Netherlands that dogs must be on leashes at all times, unless they are in designated enclosed dog parks. I honestly don’t know what the guy was thinking, I mean a ROTTWEILER, of all dogs, to have off its leash!<\/p>\n

Anyhow, after we were done screaming, swearing and threatening to call the police, we parted ways with the guy.  We then went to the playground on the corner where I stayed with the dogs while Xander ran into the house to grab his mobile. We phoned the police and were waiting for them to arrive when the guy came over to talk to us. After we had all calmed down he was very apologetic and we were calmer and able to talk to him without swearing at him.  In the end we decided we couldn’t wait any longer for the police and the guy took Xander and Bailey to the vet and I went home with Pixel, as she hadn’t stopped yelping the entire time and was waking the neighbours.<\/p>\n

Bailey is fine, he has a bunch of stitches in his belly and is quite sore and not really himself today, but he is going to be ok.  The guy stayed with Xander at the vet and paid all the bills (approx 220 Euro in all) and Xander lectured him a lot on why he should keep his dog on a leash at all times. I’m really hoping he learned his lesson. We decided in the end not to contact the police, but we will if we ever see him again with the dog off its leash. <\/p>\n

I still can’t get the vision of Bailey in that dog’s jaws being flung around like that out of my head. I felt so frigging helpless and was sure that dog was going to kill him.  <\/p>\n

\"Bailey<\/a>
Pixel doesn\u2019t leave Bailey\u2019s side for a minute.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s so interesting to see how the dogs react to one another.  Normally at different times of the day, Pixel becomes a major pest and won\u2019t leave Bailey alone until he plays with her.  Yesterday, he was very sore and tired and spent the bulk of the day asleep on the sofa but Pixel stayed close by him without bothering him at all.  It was so sweet.  <\/p>\n

I\u2019m just glad he\u2019s going to be ok and that it\u2019s all over.  The guy obviously thought that his dog was well trained and friendly, and she was.  The problem is that Bailey was on his leash and doesn\u2019t like other dogs at the best of times.  A leashed dog is always going to feel more defensive than one that is free.  So when the dog came running at him, I think initially she just wanted to play, but when Bailey got frightened he went into a defensive stance and then the fight was on.  <\/p>\n

We tried to get it through to the guy that while his dog may be very well trained, he can\u2019t always account for how other dogs are going to react, so he should always take care to make sure he never ends up in this situation again.  Not just because of the other dogs, but at some point if this were to continue happening, he would be forced to give up his dog and I\u2019m sure he doesn\u2019t want that.<\/p>\n

He was a nice guy though, he just underestimated what his dog was capable of and was careless.  It could have gone much worse than it did and at least he owned up to it and took responsibility for what happened.  We have to at least give him credit for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bailey in his Medical Pet Shirt, so much nicer than a big ugly cone! Sunday  night Xander and I went out with the dogs at about 10pm.  As we were walking along Xander was telling me how he met up with a guy a few nights ago with two big Staffordshire\u2019s off their leashes, and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,20],"tags":[60,69,62,108,93],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-life-in-nl","category-man-thats-sad","category-the-zoo","tag-bailey","tag-neighbours","tag-pets","tag-scary","tag-sickness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/2447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}