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Old July 9th, 2012, 12:02 PM
Choochi Choochi is offline
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Are you suggesting they should be responsible for this incident simply because of the fact that your dog, the instigator and the one that was out of control, has suffered injury?

Their dog was off leash but it was on their private property and it remained there. It didn't take off to attack your dog as soon as he saw him approach, in fact he didn't attack until your dog was on their property. You and your dog initiated this incident, you and your dog have placed the other dog in a position where it felt it had to defend his property and children from the intruder, and you feel like you are owed some thing?

I think you should be more concerned about what has happened and not the what ifs. As far as I'm concerned, the dog reacted fairly and it's unfortunate that your dog was hurt, but this is 100% on your shoulders. Especially if you knew ahead of time that the GSD does not like your dog.

It is incidents like this that give small dog owners a bad name for being always the one at fault and then expecting the bigger dog to bare responsibility simply because they're bigger.
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