OMW!! Just had the fright of our lives. The kids are completely shaken and so are the dogs.
I took the dogs for a walk around the neighbourhood this evening with the kids. We went for quite a long walk, and as we got to our neighbours house, I noticed that one of their 3 rottweilers were outside the gate.
He was standing right at the gate and looked quite scared. So I held the dogs back, and asked Bradley to walk very slowly and press their gate bell to try and get them to let the dog inside.
When he got back to me, I held the dogs tight on the other side of me and we went very close to the road to get past her.
I should have taken both kids and dogs across the road at that time, but the traffic was quite hectic. I blame myself completely for what happened next.
As we walked past him, he just let rip. He ran at the dogs and got hold of Kitara by the throat and wrestled her to the ground. She was literally being shaken around like a ragdoll.
The kids started screaming and hugging each other and pulling on my shirt.
I let go of her so I could get the kids. Kimo then jumped on top of the rottweiller and grabbed his neck and Kitara managed to get away and she ran into the road. Thank God there weren’t any cars. I pulled Kimo away, and dragged him and the kids into the road to get her, and we went to the other side of the road.
My neighbour then opened the gate and another one of the rottweilers then came out. Hectic!! But thankfully both of them stayed on the driveway. My kids were now hysterical, and the dogs shaking.
Once the neighbours let the dogs inside, Lance arrived home and I took the kids and dogs home.
Both kids took quite a while to calm down. Connor eventually told me that he thought he was going to get attacked :((
Kitara is fine. The dog’s teeth didn’t even pierce her skin amazingly.
Kimo is fine but very shaken. My hero :)) I was very proud of him for protecting us.
I really think though, that the dog was scared and was just trying to defend his territory. I should have known better than to try and get the dog inside his property.
I hope that the kids don’t have nightmares tonight 🙁
Just have to add that thinking about it now, my neighbours are chicken! The dude across the road actually went into his garden and watched the commotion from behind his fence. And an awesome black dude that was running on the road ran back down the road to try and help me when we got to the other side of the road!! Thanks to that mystery man for asking me whether we were ok!
No thanks go to my neighbours!
I’m going now to crack open a bottle of wine!
Gosh that is scary. Glad you are all ok though and especially that the kids did not get bitten.
I would go back to that house. And give them a SOLID talking to. Scared dog or not, that is not on. Glad everyone is ok – what an awesome hero dog
Glad it all turned out ok and hope the kids get over it quickly. Sounds like you kept it together pretty well though, albeit with a touch of luck on your side.
Enjoy the wine!
Glad you guys are okay, but I would have been *so* peeved at the neighbor! We once had a neighborhood Boerboel rush out of his yard and attack our very big, very scary looking (but total marshmallow) alaskan malamute, and I had to beat the boerboel off with a stick. I very nearly turned on the neighbor when he sheepishly came out to fetch his dog after I screamed the neigborhood down. (more like pissed off shouting I like to think). When I sent him the vets bill for R700 (stiches to my dogs foreleg) he tried not to pay – but we had a mate who was a lawyer send him a legal letter stating that because the dog escaped his yard, it was his responsiblity to pay, they paid us, and then sent us a snarky letter alongside how we were “bad” dog owners owning “that breed” of dog, in Africa, where it *obviously* doesn’t belong. I think I composed a hundred different shitty replies, and then decided to take the high road and ignore them instead!
wow that’s hectic! Glad my dogs were ok. And alaskan dogs all seem to be big teddy bears really 🙂
Not sure whether it would have made a difference if you’d crossed the road. Don’t you remember, a few years ago, the lady who was attacked by our neighbour’s dog. Hope the boys have a good night. They will not be too happy with large dogs now … Elaine still doesn’t like Alsatians after having the one across the road jump the gate and bite her on the bum, when she was little.
OMG Jeanette, reading your story made my heart miss a beat!! I don’t care what people say, but Rottweilers are very nasty dogs. There has been so many very nasty stories in our papers about these dogs attacking other dogs and kids and most of the time it is totally unprovoked. A couple of weeks ago a pet store had a Rottweiler promo ( to try and soften all the negativity towards Rottweilers). Someone took their pet into the store and the dog attacked the girl in the store when she gave him a treat and bit her lip off!!! Never let your boys near those dogs in your street.
gees, thats hectic, glad you guys are ok
Oh my word thats terrible Jeanette. Rottweilers are nasty dogs. The owners of the dogs should be told off, they should know better and make sure their dogs are locked up. Hope the boys are okay. Lots of hugs and kisses.
OH no!! That’s so scary! I’m SO glad you guys are all fine
Goodness me how scary 🙁
Glad no one was hurt. Did your neighbour not apologise or at least check you were alright?
I’m so glad you, your kidlets and your doglets weren’t hurt. I’m continually amazed at how people react – the least likely are the ones to rush to your rescue.
OMW! how scary! so glad you, the kids and dogs are ok! people should REALLY be more responsible for their animals. I totally agree with Cazpi, go back there and give the owners a good talking to!
Rags and i had a similar situation a while back with 3 staffies, but luckily the kids across the road came to our rescue!!
Glad you all are ok. We got attacked by a German shepherd when our Bongi was just a puppy. Actually hurt her tendon in the bite for life.
A good thing to remember – Rotweilers and German Shepherds like to go for what they perceive as the weekest memeber of the party. So face with them, protects Connor and Kitara first as they are the smallest. Most other dogs (like ridgebacks, foxies etc)will go for the one they see as the biggest challenge – that would be you are Kimo I would guess. Then male dogs often go for males (human or dogs) and female for female. I got told this by the dog trainer we went to – hope it will help you just as a general rule of thumb.
When I used to walk often with the dogs I carried an old fashioned “karwats” with me – for our own protection against other dogs only when you really need it. Had to use it a few times and very effective.