11-30-2019, 05:58 AM
Today I was at the end of a 2.5 mile walk with my dogs. We were nearly home when the UPS truck pulled up next to me to warn me of an off leash dog on the street ahead. My eyes were then glued to the head of the street just scanning for the dog. Great there’s not really a good way back but the way we came which would turn the walk into a 5 mile walk or longer. I yell thank you to the ups guy and just stand there trying to decide if Regina could make the extra walk. That’s when I see the dog run up smelling a bush on the far side of the cross street. So I decided the side street behind us was a good place to just dive off and hide. It could give us cover and time for the owners to catch the dog. That’s what Fennec lets out a squeal and the dog turns and charges straight at us. We were a ways down so I had time to grab my pepper spray (average quarter size acre lots in the neighborhood). The dog is maybe 20ft from us and I just hell “HEY!” (Mama bear was going to protect her cubs warning lol) You could hear it echo off the houses all down the street. Acoustically I was in the best place I could have been.
I’ve never seen a dog stop dead in its tracks like that. He was a beautiful shepherd mostly black and white speckled. He looked at us puzzled and then turned away and ran back towards home.
Once I decided he was going to keep his distance I just continued home like I was going to originally. I saw the dog run past its owners again and some idiot in a huge black truck comes speeding up the street past us headed for the dog and nearly hits him as everyone including other neighbors are yelling at him to slow down. Thankfully he does. Another car coming from behind me is also speeding towards us and the neighbor on the opposite corner calls out to be careful and hells at the guy to slow down. I step off in the yard and just wait for the idiots to go away.
I finally got my dogs home and ran back to the top of my street to see them taking the dog back inside.
Let me just say that the people that spoke up and helped are amazing people!
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I’ve never seen a dog stop dead in its tracks like that. He was a beautiful shepherd mostly black and white speckled. He looked at us puzzled and then turned away and ran back towards home.
Once I decided he was going to keep his distance I just continued home like I was going to originally. I saw the dog run past its owners again and some idiot in a huge black truck comes speeding up the street past us headed for the dog and nearly hits him as everyone including other neighbors are yelling at him to slow down. Thankfully he does. Another car coming from behind me is also speeding towards us and the neighbor on the opposite corner calls out to be careful and hells at the guy to slow down. I step off in the yard and just wait for the idiots to go away.
I finally got my dogs home and ran back to the top of my street to see them taking the dog back inside.
Let me just say that the people that spoke up and helped are amazing people!
https://www.instagram.com/p/B5dj1NphfRE/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
