On 11/19/2018 5:15 PM, Terry Coombs wrote:
> On 11/19/2018 11:16 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>
>> "jmcquown"Â* wrote in message ...
>> On 11/18/2018 11:32 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2018-11-18 1:30 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>>>> I heard this loud commotion out front. Dogs barking, snarling. Loud!
>>>> WTF?
>>>>
>>>> I walked out front.Â* There was a man with a dog in his arms
>>>> (protectively) and his wife with a smaller dog on a leash heading
>>>> away. And another woman hurrying her larger dog away from them.
>>>>
>>>> Not all dogs get along.Â* I don't know why everyone assumes they do.
>>>> Whew, no bloodshed.Â* It could have been a bad situation.
>>>>
>>>
>>> When we got our Malinois we were told that he could not be around
>>> other dogs. That was confirmed when my brother brought hisÂ* LabÂ* over
>>> to go for a walk. Sonny was so vicious that my bother never brought
>>> his dog back and did not want Sonny there. I used to walk him in the
>>> woods behind us and let him run free. A couple times we ran into
>>> people with dogs running free and he was fine. When a leash free dog
>>> park openedÂ* up nearby we tried it out and he was fine.Â*Â* Dogs tend
>>> to get along much better when there are no leashes involved.
>>>
>> I'm not talking about a dog park or in the "woods" in the middle of
>> nowhere.Â* Unleashed dogs are not a good thing in a neighborhood.Â* Dogs
>> should always be under the owners control, on a leash.Â* These were,
>> and they didn't like each other. Uncontrolled, it could have been a
>> bad situation involving trips to the vet.
>>
>> Jill
>>
>>
>> ===
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>> +1
>>
> Â* When I was a child , we had a Border Collie named Ring . Our neighbor
> about an eighth of a mile down and across the road had one name Tippy .
> They'd step out in the road , see each other and meet in the middle .
> They were pretty evenly matched , never a clear winner - kinda like The
> Hatfields and McCoys . The feud went on until one of them died , been so
> long I don't recall which expired first . But neither ever went to the
> vet over a bite or two .
>
That may be true in your neck of the woods. IMHO any dog bite needs to
be treated by a vet. There is no way to know whether or not a dog has
been vaccinated. I wouldn't take a chance.

Jill