Your most dangerous walk you've ever been on

[debbie321]

  Daisy, if he's a pain again just tell me ............... don't take away and lose him ...............tempting though it is 

Have told Daisy about your request - her reply was        as if  ........................................................................................................................................

 

[Cob-Web]

A meet with a former COL member on Ryde beach on August BH, which is the weekend of the annual Scooter Rally; the parade was moving off from the Esplanande above the beach; Molo was at the height of his teenage stage 

He ran off the beach, from 1/4 of a mile away  straight into the midst of the Parade  I heard loads of horns beeping as I was running towards the road, and quite expected to find him injured or worse Fortunately, the parade had not moved off, and there was no moving traffic at all, because the road was closed (any other day and he would have run into 30mph traffic  )
By the time I got there, he had run back onto the beach and was digging holes with two children he had found 

[Ben's mum]

our scariest walk was on a sunday evening last summer - we were out in the middle of the Peak District miles from anywhere and Ben ran into some brambles, he got a bit snagged on his coat but got free.  there was a long bramble stuck under his tummy twisted in the fur on the back of his legs.  As I tried to pull it off  it must have been hurting him as he grabbed at the bramble and swallowed it. 

somehow it got stuck across the back of his throat and he was crying shaking and retching all at the same time. OH had to carry him a couple of miles back to the car (and he ways a ton)  It was a scary drive back to chesterfield to a vet - i didn't know what to do, couldn't get at the stick and was convinced we would n't make it in time.

I've been slightly paranoid since then about things getting caught in coats and Ben is clipped short all over now - I'd love to let his coat grow, but just can't bring myself to do it

Bens mum

[miche]

I guess my most dangerous walk was late last year when I was heavily pregnant.  I did post about it and didn't realise until now that it was very dangerous.

I received my new sporn harness in the post and decided to give it a try with Mikey.  We went for a walk and got carried away and went to the cow mills to buy some doggie treats and to show him off to a bunch of farmers.  I then decided to go further afield again but didn't really know the route and ended up on the old dramway where I had to go scrabbling through bushes and mud and climb over big banks all whilst keeping an eye on Mikey who was off lead.  We eventually got to the field where we would lead walk home from and I noticed I had lost one of the fluffly sleeves off my prized new sporn harness so I retraced my steps to find it and I did, right at the top of a muddy bank.

I was absolutely exhausted and when we eventually got back on the lead to walk home it poured down so much it ruined my walking boots and Mikey was whimpering.


If I would have slipped or hurt myself in any way I wouldn't have been found for ages as no-one hardly ever walks that route and Mikey doesn't exactly have Lassie's brains

[clairep4]

Mine was dangerous for Bella rather than for me. When she was 5 months (and she was a weeny little thing) we went to a nice local park. I was still quite new to the whole dog walking thing then and Bella had been really well socialised and had stopped doing the mad tearing up to every dog thing. A woman was sitting on the grass looking very relaxed with a big english bull terrier sitting next to her. We were walking kind of past the woman and Bella trotted over to say hello, waggling her bum but doing calming signals (sniffing the ground, looking away etc). When she was 2ft from the bull terrier, the woman (who had been watching her coming over) suddenly shouted "call your dog off!!!" very aggressively. We called Bella but the bull terrier suddenly leaped out and grabbed her (it was offlead). It was a full grown and very big bull terrier. Bella was absolutely screaming her head off and literally being shaken side to side by the BT although she did manage to get its jaws off her chest and locked her jaws with its. I remember trying to get them apart, OH was just screaming, Bella was screaming, there was blood all over Bella's neck and chest and around the BT's mouth and the BT's owner was just standing back doing nothing. I really thought we were going to lose our beautiful Bella. Eventually a guy came running over and I can't even remember what he did but he separated the dogs. Bella went running off screaming but thankfully came back when we called her. We picked her up and started trying to assess her injuries - her chest was covered in blood and she wouldn't let us touch it at all. Meanwhile the BT's owner started shouting at us "you should muzzle that f*$%ing dog!!!!" to which I pointed out that she was a 5 month old pup and that her dog had lunged at Bella, not the other way round. We ended up in a slanging match across the park. She eventually headed off and the park warden came to find out how Bella was and said this dog had attacked other dogs in the park as well.

Anyway eventually we managed to look at Bella's chest and to our amazement couldn't find any actual broken skin and no cuts on her anywhere. She was still losing her puppy teeth at the time so the only thing we can think is that she'd been busily chomping away on the BT's chin while their jaws were locked and that this is where all the blood came from! We took her home (it was a Sunday) and rang the emergency vet as she still wouldn't let us anywhere near her chest area at all. He told us to try and clip the fur off as there might be small puncture wounds. We muzzled her and removed the fur (with Bella screaming and snarling) and although she wasn't punctured you could see 4 big tooth-shaped marks where the dog had grabbed hold of her. By the morning it had swollen up to the size of a golf ball and the skin had turned blue. The vet had a look and said she had massive tissue trauma to the whole area. She then had this huge cyst there which used to open up every morning on her walk and ooze all down her legs - it was there for nearly 3 weeks before it finally started to go down. Nearly 2 years on she still has a flap of tissue sticking out from her chest from the fight.

Still gets my heart pounding just thinking about it. I'm sooooo glad Zorro doesn't really bother with other dogs.

[*Theresa*]

Poor Bella, what a horrible experience. 

[James]

  have you seen the bt and owner since?

[clairep4]

have you seen the bt and owner since?

No - in fact we've barely been to that park since then, we just avoid it. Besides which Bella subsequently got attacked on 3 different occasions by staffie-type dogs (lots of them with not very responsible owners round our way) and now dislikes any bull-type breed no matter how lovely they are. So we try to avoid bumping into them as she likes to start scraps. Having said that though she has managed to walk past a bull terrier off lead last week without trying to kill it and yesterday walked past a big staffie on the lead without having too much of a hissy fit, so our months and months of work are slowly, very slowly, paying off.  I think the fact that Zorro is so chilled helps out, he's the perfect gentleman with other dogs and Bella really watches him and is hopefully picking up tips on how to be polite to bull terriers and staffies 

[phillyknickers]

Poor Bella, what a horrible experience.  

absolutely.........I dread this happening to Harry.  We saw a Staffy off lead at the fields the other day.  Whilst Harry was on his lead the Staffy came over and lunged and snarled at him.  I shouted so loud at it that he ran away (got my teacher voice out - believe me, it's loud ).  His owner just put his hand up at me........what on earth does that mean I wonder  .  

[sadienralfie]

i was going hrough a muddy patch of land with ralfie and we kinnda got stuck and ralfie was on lead he pulled me out and he got a few treats he loves treats.

[sadienralfie]

Poor Bella, what a horrible experience.  

absolutely.........I dread this happening to Harry.  We saw a Staffy off lead at the fields the other day.  Whilst Harry was on his lead the Staffy came over and lunged and snarled at him.  I shouted so loud at it that he ran away (got my teacher voice out - believe me, it's loud ).  His owner just put his hand up at me........what on earth does that mean I wonder  .  


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iv got a stffy and a cocker they get along r8t well and there very good come back when told to

[sadienralfie]

it is not good when you have two dogs and one goes to one dog and oother goes to other

[phillyknickers]

We saw a Staffy off lead at the fields the other day.  Whilst Harry was on his lead the Staffy came over and lunged and snarled at him.

iv got a stffy and a cocker they get along r8t well and there very good come back when told to

Yeah, I'm sure that with socialisation, as with any other dog, they can be great - it wasn't meant as a dig at Staffy's at all  .  Harry played with one again today off lead who was fab.  It was more that if the owner knows that his dog can be like this then why not have him on a lead?  I'm new to this dog ownership so this is a steep learning curve for me but it's not rocket science in this instance - just common sense and respect for other animals surely?  Or am I off on one.....