Quote Originally Posted by Alysser View Post
Bri, trails and parks are always risky. You have plenty of irresponsible people who bring their ill-trained or uncontrollable dogs and a few happy ones like Brennan and you get a bad situation. I never understood how you can even contemplate bringing an uncontrollable or aggressive dog to a park or something. I mean, if you can control an dog-aggressive dog fine, but a human aggressive one is a huge liability and I have seen it believe it or not.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone has a dog not under control off-leash and the dog comes running up to everyone. Sure it's friendly but that's not to say my dog is! I know Mikey would be one of those and he's NEVER off leash.

I'm sorry you had that experience but just be glad Brennan's okay and everything! It could've been worse!
Oh, I know that. And I'd been monitoring Brennan very closely because I didn't know how he was going to react. You see, there were dog aggressive dogs in our little walking group, but the owners knew this about their dog and were watching them and keeping them away from other dogs like a responsible owner. It can be managed, but SOME PEOPLE...

I never let Brennan run up to strange dogs for that reason. I don't want his face to get bit off. But I wasn't even letting him towards this dog and all of a sudden BAM this dog LUNGED at him and is in his face, biting him out of NOWHERE. I was so mad. If Brennan had got hurt badly, I would've had to hurt someone.

And yes, that's how I'm looking at things. It could have been a lot worse. Though I'm freaking out and worrying about him like I should be, I just have to think that he's okay and that it's nothing serious. My sweet boy proved to me today that he is a very good boy and I'm so proud of him for that.