Seeing Red

 

You've seen this photo before…

Scully here - I have a new red collar which you can barely discern in this photo. MY humans don't make me wear a collar but I don't object to sporting one. And F has discovered that although I have run free on our walks round our bay for over two months, I am also perfectly behaved when attached to a string.

Why now you might ask? Well… there is a very badly behaved German Shepherd in our bay and it's owners don't or can't control it. They let it run around loose. It has viciously attacked me 3 times in the last week. It tries to bite me across the spine. I'm not scared of it. I give as good as I get and try to tear its face off. When F says "Scully come" I go with F but that nasty dog chases us. Even if we see it coming from a distance and turn around we can hear it charging up behind us snarling and slathering, hackles raised, and it's humans shouting uselessly behind it.

"We don't understand it" they say. "She just wants to play". 

F has muttered a lot of stuff to me about some people not being fit to own dogs and can't read dog body language. Hackles don't go up on playful dogs.

Anyway, my collar.... if we are going to have to walk in places outside our bay, I'll need to be attached to a human and I've shown I'm up for that.

I get the impression F isn't scared of that dog either.  We both just wish it wouldn't consistently spoil our enjoyment of our walks.

F - I actually scooped Scully up after the last encounter and her wee heart was doing 1000s rpm. I'll give her dues she's not submissive and even in a snarling biting match is prepared to respond to being called off but is consistently re-attacked by this horrible dog. Some would say that scooping her up was to risk being biten myself. I've been the victim of an unprovoked dog attack before - while out running years ago. 

"Go on then bite me - you will be dead before day end." 

And if its owners had any love for it they would muzzle it in public to avoid the risk that someone WILL apply to have it put down for attacking another animal (or human).

We have encountered other dog walkers around here who go long distances out of their own way to avoid risking any encounter with the dangerous dog, so it's not just Scully that provokes her wrath.