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Very Frightening Walk This Morning!

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AWick:
This morning my wife and I put our 9 month old in the stroller to walk down to a local bakery, just shy of a mile away, for breakfast. As I was putting my shoes on I looked over at my gun case and though, "Ohhhh, it'll be OK. We're just going to the bakery." My wife isn't too fond of me carrying all the time and so I've been trying to just slowly increase my regularity and "pick my battles".

This morning showed me that you can't "pick your battles", EVER. On our way back we came around a corner and there was a 130lbs rottweiler on the loose growling and barking at us only about 20 yards away. We stopped dead in our tracks, lowered our eyes to try to not provoke the thing any more and crossed the street. The dog barked after us for awhile, but we managed to get out of its line of sight. I had my knife on me like I ALWAYS do and had it drawn and ready as I'm pushing the stroller. I would've hated to have to find out how I would fare against a 130lbs rottweiler with only a knife and not my pistol... I don't think that I would've liked the outcome...

Hopefully that not only opened my eyes more, but my wife's as well...

bkoenig:
Glad everything worked out ok.

I had a similar encounter about a year ago with a large 100+ pound dog that started chasing me when I was out for a run.  His owner was letting him run loose and eventually called him off, but if it had advanced much further I would have been forced to draw.  A dog of that size could seriously injure or kill even a grown man.  I'm a dog lover but I have no patience for irresponsible owners.

NENick:

--- Quote from: bkoenig on September 07, 2013, 03:16:41 PM ---Glad everything worked out ok.

I had a similar encounter about a year ago with a large 100+ pound dog that started chasing me when I was out for a run.  His owner was letting him run loose and eventually called him off, but if it had advanced much further I would have been forced to draw.  A dog of that size could seriously injure or kill even a grown man.  I'm a dog lover but I have no patience for irresponsible owners.

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After you protect yourself, the irresponsible one gets to file a lawsuit and try to take your house.

bkoenig:

--- Quote from: NENick on September 07, 2013, 04:16:24 PM ---After you protect yourself, the irresponsible one gets to file a lawsuit and try to take your house.

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That's the sad thing. 

JTH:

--- Quote from: NENick on September 07, 2013, 04:16:24 PM ---After you protect yourself, the irresponsible one gets to file a lawsuit and try to take your house.

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I must admit, the best use for pepper spray (for non-LEO folks) in my opinion is for anti-dog situations.  You have to feel sorry for the dog afterward (because its behavior is due to OWNER failure, not dog failure) but it doesn't kill the dog, and works like a charm.  (Dogs don't know to dodge, close their eyes, or close their mouth.)

When on walks like that, I strongly suggest having a medium-sized canister of high-quality, high-volume pepper spray.  Versus dogs, (IMO) it is actually much more effective than a firearm, with MUCH less nonsense afterwards.

"You killed my dog!"  "It was attacking me!"  "I'm taking you to court, you dog-killer!  Why do you even CARRY a gun in this nice neighborhood!" etc...

versus

"What did you do to my dog?! "It attacked us.  It was just pepper spray, he'll be fine in a little while.  We are, however, reporting this attack to the police, since you didn't control your dog."  "But, but, he was just..."

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