my pitmix was attacked, don't know what to do?

[kellykelly]

my dog, xerxes(male pitbull mix) and I were playing at the park yesterday, off to the side away from people. he was on leash, neither of us were doing anything wrong but I guess pibble/mixes draw attention anyway.

was working on staying from a distance, he was about 20 feet away. just as I called him to come a man that had been standing on the other side of the park goes and sprints towards us. I thought he was running after a soccer ball or something so I turned back to xerxes but before he could reach me this idiot of a man flies past me and pepper sprays xerxes in the face. :(

this guy goes on to yell at me, saying my dog was running to attack me(because of the breed)like that justified attacking(at least that's what I think it is) him... he was coming to me since I called him, tail wagging, that's not what a attack looks like. -_-

guy ran off.

I took xerxes to the vet and he's fine now but...I left the park too quickly to do anything to the guy. I filed a report with the police but they refused to carry it out because of his breed mix...

my poor dog wasn't hurting anyone and now this happens. I don't know what I'm supposed to do... :(

[Maxy24]

Oh my god, that's horrible! I can't believe the police won't do anything, it's not like the guy even thought the dog was coming for HIM, that's just so awful. I really hope he has no long term fears towards men/strangers because of this idiot. I'm so sorry for you and your dog.

[Sprocket]

What an asshole! That is terrible that the police won't do anything.

[MollyWoppy]

Do people like that even exist? I've never heard anything so bizarre in my life. I am so sorry you and your pup had to be caught up in this. The only way you can try to justify it is by thinking that this 'person' was obviously mentally unstable. You can't reason with people like that.

[doggiedad]

this is the wrong thing to do but if that happened to my
dog i would hang out in the area without my dog. if i saw
the guy i would mase him and probably bash his head and body
with a pipe or bat.

[B3r_&_Ray]

This right there is BULLS**T!!! It's not the breed whatsoever when are ppl going to realize to stop blaming the effin breed and start blaming the humans. It's the owners fault an animal is violent :(

[B3r_&_Ray]

Do people like that even exist? I've never heard anything so bizarre in my life. I am so sorry you and your pup had to be caught up in this. The only way you can try to justify it is by thinking that this 'person' was obviously mentally unstable. You can't reason with people like that.

Yea ppl like that exist. The other day my aunt had to call the animal cops because someone threw their full bred pitbull in the yard with her full bred boxer both males and she came outside to growling and whatnot cuz they were fighting. Her boxer got him down to the ground and the pit almost died. The guy thought it was funny and was hoping to kill the boxer. I'm glad to say my aunt did the right thing by calling the animal and human police and they are both away right now and her boxer is in the vet being checked :(

[bridget246]

That is pretty shocking. I hope that if someone did this to me they would mace me as well. I'm afraid of what I might do if I actually caught them. In both of the above stories.

Actually! This did happen to me. Not quite like that. A guy who I had recently beat up saw me playing with a puppy my dad had brought home from the shelter. I was around 9 or 10. There was another dog outside in a fence in yard. He opened the fence hoping that this dog would kill my puppy. Wow, he must have been shocked to realize that this dog was actually dog friendly. I think I took the dog back into the yard. I didn't go after the kid again. He couldn't fight so I kind of felt bad for fighting him in the first place. Back then I thought if you talked stuff then you knew what you were doing. He didn't :( I never even knew why he wanted to fight me. I remember him talking about me. Then one day I was running around with my friends when this kid comes out of nowhere swinging at me angrily. So I thought he wanted to fight, I was cool with that. He rushed in so I headbutted him, punched him a few times when I noticed he was crying and that headbutt appeared to have really hurt...so I left him alone. Didn't know what else to do at the time. My dad would tried to teach me that fighting was something you were suppose to enjoy. I did learn to enjoy it but I never did enjoy hurting others which probably makes me weird.

[kevin bradley]

Glad your Dog is ok.

My question is.... what the hell ELSE is this vigilante clown doing in his day to day life? I could only imagine. Ramming cars who he thinks might be speeding and posing a "danger?"

So your Dog wasn't even jumping on you or doing anything that resembled an agressive move?.... and this clown flies out of nowhere to "Save the day?"


Jesus, this world has some real freaks out there. I would have punched him. And I'd probably be in jail.

[bernadettelevis]

so sorry for your pup. I hope he feels better soon.

What shocks me most is that, in case of an accident or if you are really in danger, most people don't have the courage to help, but here he thought he did you a favor? Crazy world.....

And wow why does the police do nothing?