Comment to 'What's the BEST way to protect your dog/you fr a dog attack?'
  • Here is a tip. Get a big strong, well trained dog, and keep it on leash when you walk it. Remember if there is confrontation between an unleased and a leashed dog, or a person, it is pretty much automatic that it is legally the unleashed (at the start of the fight) dog's owner that is at fault and responsable for any injuries etc.. On a side note (warning no usefull information beyond this point. I just like my dog and talking about her) :wink: I have a very docile and friendly bullmastiff. She gets along very well with people and other dogs at the dog park at our Mastiff meetups etc. Some would discribe her as very submissive (at the dog park she tends to run away from confrontations with other dogs). Yet when we go on leashed walks, as we do every evening, we have only twice been confronted by aggressive large dogs (one was a very large Rott Doberman mix and the other was a small GSD) in both instances when the other dog got close she butched up in a hurry and backed it down (long enough for their owners to get control) so there was no real fight either time. The dogs that annoy us the most often are loose mini-pins and chihuahuas, etc. I have mostly been successful in teaching her to keep walking and "Leave it" when those little buggers come out yapping at our heels. 8)