09/07/2025
💥💥 DOG ATTACK BATHGATE 💥💥
A few folk have asked if I heard about this and tbh I just know as much as all of you, I’ve just seen the post below and I don’t know the full scenario or what dogs/breeds were involved but it does sound horrendous and I feel bad for whoever this happened to as it would be both scary and horrific to see 🙏🙏💔
But what I will say is, no wonder I constantly rattle on about off-leash dogs 🤦♂️, and yes these may be dogs that have escaped a property… but if your dog is reactive/aggresive make sure you work even harder to ensure they are contained.
Now if strange off leash dogs are approaching you and you feel unsure, there are a lot of different ways this can pan out dependant on things like: your own confidence, your dogs confidence, the mannerism of the approaching dogs, the breeds involved etc
And if a fight does break-out you’ll have the ingenious ways people will say “I’d have just done this, I’d have done that” but if just for talking sake it’s 2 large breed dogs attacking your small breed, I can guarantee 99% will panic, scream, and not know what to do or even if you think you do know what to do because you’ve watched on the internet, will be incapable within the current situation(and yes, as you’ll see all over YouTube, choking is of the best ways, but you try choking 2 large dogs simultaneously whilst your dog is screaming…. It’s not going to happen).
Now….. one piece of advice I’d give to at least minimise the damage as much possible if a fight does break out, is: DO NOT PULL YOUR OWN DOG IF THE OTHER DOG HAS A HOLD OF IT!!!! TRY AND DEAL WITH THE ATTACKING DOG/S.
I witnessed it just months ago with a large breed and a toy breed. Your natural instinct is to pick your dog up(which is all good if you do it in a timely manner and know your confident enough to keep the other dogs back), but if you start a tug of war game by pulling your dog you are literally throwing fuel on the fire and turning up the drive mode on the attacking dog, even if the other dog/s aren’t acting maliciously, they can do serious damage by partaking in what they now see as a seriously fun game(which is literally what I witnessed above).
Anyways, people do need to keep their dogs ‘on-leash’ so less of these scenarios can happen. If you own a dog, you at least deserve to be able to walk around your town without worry of others.
Like A Boss.
