Second attack

Yesterday Ang’s sister left and phoned us later after she’d been to the PDSA. Her dog has got 2 lots of tablets she said and if it doesn’t clear up he’s got to go back. Ang went home on the evening and I got to be about 10.30. Woke this morning about 7.15 and took the dogs out. Rang Ang about 7.40 and she came over about 7.55. Fed dogs and got them out at about 9. There was a tractor on the field so we couldn’t let them off and just went to the shops instead. Got back and Ang had a slice of toast, her first food in over a week. I had two slices with marmalade and some milk. Watched a bit of news and then put computers on to do charity clicks and check email accounts. Popped over to Ang’s flat to clean up for her and came back and listened to radio a bit more. Decided to get dogs out again and went to Ham Common. Managed to get quite a good piece of video of Dainty enjoying the water. On the way back decided to keep dogs on the lead. Thankfully. Just as we were coming back past the last of the soldier’s houses a white Alsatian appeared who I know is aggressive towards Buster. It was off the lead and had seen us. Thank god there was a small piece of ground nearby partially fenced off. I quickly got the dogs onto it as it started to run at us and shouted to Ang to block the entrance. The dog went to go past Ang but she should her ground and it had second thoughts and circled around trying to come more directly at the dogs and avoid Ang. I couldn’t get through the fence. Its carer appeared and I shouted “Get control of your fucking dog”. He said something like “he would when it stood still” and he got closer to it. Buster was going mad at it through the fence and it was calming down a bit. Then it circled around and managed to get past Ang as the gap was too large for her to block completely and she was scared. Luckily the guy, who was prolly in his twenties managed to corner the dog and stop it from attacking. He landed a few blows on it and grabbed its fur as it didn’t have a collar on. Neither did he have a lead with him, unless it was in his pocket. I told Ang to get away quickly and we came back onto the estate as fast as we could. We got home after about 10 minutes after chatting to the owner of another Alsatian we see regularly about what happened. Got fed up of news just hearing about BBC. Ang and I talked of what to do about the blue eyed white Alsatian that came at Buster. I told her I wished I was a Sikh and carried a curved dagger inside my shirt to defend him. Their daggers are designed for cutting the throat of a dog, although the outside edge shouldn’t have a blade on it. It’s too dangerous to your own dog if it does. We decided to phone the dog warden in the end. I told someone the story and how the last time it attacked Buster it was a woman in charge on a bike. God knows if anything will be done. Had a coffee and finished this post.