DD & I walked the dog together this afternoon. We were going down the street in the direction of the sun, and I could see someone else coming up the street toward us with a large dog on a leash. So we moved far to the right to give them room and I caught a glimpse of their silhouette, (I was blinded by the sun a bit), and thought wow the dog looks like a senior. My dog started to act up, which was very odd. He's trained. He knows not to bark unless someone is right up on us, and we had actually been charged by a little dog not long before that, and he never even paid attention to him.
My dog seemed seriously freaked out about this approaching dog. I was astonished when they got closer as I had seen them before several times, a man with a very well behaved Doberman, truly superb obedience, an athlete. She seemed young to me. My dog was getting more riled as they got closer and he really wanted to let loose a full throttle intimidation routine on her, so DD and I ducked behind a building to build some distance and block his view. We were utterly bewildered as this is so out of character for him. When we came out on the other end the man had walked past the building and I noticed the dog was now standing still. He was petting her in a way that made me feel deeply uncomfortable. It all seemed to happen so fast that I couldn't process it, and we had to keep our own dog moving forward because he was so agitated. He never made a peep, because my daughters timing for corrections on a flat buckle collar is excellent, but it was darn close.
The distance between us was building and I looked back again and now the dog was laying in the snow, the way a dog would do in a dog bed. A terrible feeling came over me. We circled the small block and when we got to the car I drove straight away to where the man was. I don't know what I thought I could do, I don't have a cell and I couldn't get his dog in my car since my own dog seemed so cross toward her. But I went anyway feeling urgency. When we pulled up I saw that another man had come already. The back hatch was open and it looked like they had laid her body in there. I saw them close the hatch and they both stood there, the owner started to dial the phone. I honestly felt gutted by the whole thing. When I saw her laying in the snow my inner alarms all started yelling. I can only guess that my dog was well aware of what was about to happen. I've read about how dogs will register another dog with illness as a threat, but never seen it in action. Terrible experience!
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