Scary story...

[Cr@ckSH0t]

Not all shtf stories can be end of the world related. So here is a scary story of two dog attack's my friend and I experienced a few years ago and one I experienced a few months ago.

It was sometime in 2005. I was sleeping over with one of my friends at his house, now we were both 15 at the time and he lived on a farm surrounded by woodland interspersed by more farms. Well, a day into the sleepover we decide to take a hike into the woods near his house. Oddly enough he brings a CROSSBOW with him!! Crazily, it was probably this that had saved our lives. So I ask him what it was for and he told me that a pack of feral dogs had been plauging the area around their farm for a few weeks and if they tried to attack us he would kill them with it....... I asked him if they called animal control, but his mother told me (she was next to us when we were having this conversation, we were just leaving then btw.) that the dogs had really started to get violent this past week and her husband and older two sons would track the dogs down and kill them instead.(Kinda a dumb descision eh?) So we set out, just walking along their fields for thirty or so minutes until we reach the woodline. There is a hiking trail about a mile away from their house and it loops around to join itself again at the end so we decided to take this trail. The trail itself from beginning to end is about four miles. So, two hours into our little 'adventure' we come upon a small pond. We were about halfway on the trail, we walked slow. And can you guess what was drinking out of this pond? You guessed it, a feral dog. This is where my memory gets a little fuzzy, because of all the adrenaline you see. So the dog is a pitbull,kinda small for one and he looked gaunt and half starved, he turns around and starts growling at us. My friend loads a bolt into his crossbow and he aims it at the dog. Right then, three other dogs hop out of the brush to our right. Two were very, very large doberman's and I guess the other dog was some kind of rottweiler/beagle mix??? About this time my adrenaline was flowing and my heart was pounding, every cell in my body told me to run, however, my friend held his ground. The dogs grouped together about 15 feet away from us and then started to circle us. I realized they were hungry and we were on the menu. One of the larger dobermans was particularly agressive and I remembered something my dad said about wolves and the pack leaders were usually the most agressive. So I yelled to my friend "Shoot that one!" and he did. The bolt caught the dog in the neck and sank far into him. The dog dropped like a sack of bricks, not dead, but mortally wounded. When the other dogs saw this they turned tail and ran and so did we!!! Well it took us like 5 minutes to get home!! lol.
Anyway, we got home in one piece. We never spoken to anybody about it, he moved away, and I never heard any else about the other dogs again. If it werent for the crossbow and my friend keeping his ground, I might not be writing this for you right now. I think i will write about the second story after my nerves calm down.

[SilverRun]

One mean dog is a nuisance - two or more is a problem unless you are armed. Good call on picking out the leader.

Now I like animals, especially dogs, as much as the next guy, but what bothers me nowadays is that you will get more jail time for shooting a feral dog than you would a person. This is messed up!

[Cr@ckSH0t]

Trust me when I say that i have never looked at dogs the same way ever since.

We have too many animal sympathizers who put emotion over logic, remember 'To kill a mockingbird'? At least during their time they put logic over emotion and realized the dangers of a rabid/feral dog.(Even though it is only a story)

You know, a guy I once knew had gotten attacked once, big guy, six five, 250, all muscle. He got attacked by two junkyard rottweilers that got out of their property and attacked him. He killed both of them with his bare hands. Now, wouldnt you hate to have to face him down in any kind of hand to hand whatsoever?

[ezearln]

In Texas a feral dog or cat or any other animal can be shot by any property owner if the animal is preying upon livestock, crops, ornamental or otherwise, pets, ornamental fishes or presents a threat real or perceived to people or the above. Feral dogs are especially dangerous as they have absolutely no instinctive fear of man remaining! If you have a pack of feral dogs roaming your property they are nothing less than a tragedy waiting to happen and need to be put down with extreme prejudice!

[Dookiebutt]

That works on your own property. From his story, unless they were living on some huge ranch, they were well off their own farm.

Better safe than sorry, but don't be surprised when Mrs. Jones sues you for the loss of her beloved pet doberman.

[billy]

i would rather be in court than the hospital or the morgue!

[Cr@ckSH0t]

Yeah, i am sure that we were off of his property. But, like I said, i never heard anything else about the dogs since then, and they looked like they were satrving so they probably werent owned by anyone......i cant remember seeing a collar on any of them.

Also, it was illegal for him to be handling a crossbow without an adult present (although, it was a farm, out in the middle of nowhere, nobody would have known)....i shudder to think what would have happened if he didnt bring it and i also shudder to think what could have happened if the dogs were owned by someone who sued us over the death of little poopsie.....

[two-70]

Very well said Billy

[aris_unlimited]

I was kinda attacked by dogs once. I say kinda because it didn't get too far.

I was riding my bike (I was about 16 at the time I was about 5'6 and prolly 220 lbs.......very into sports) so 2 dogs come out chasing me. 1 is a doberman and the other is some little ankle biter. The ankle biter gets to the side of my bike first so I stand on the opposite pedal and kick him in the head. He goes down. I look back up and the doberman is standing broadside in front of me and bam, I hit him and tucked and rolled as I flew off my bike. Was back on my feet in a second or two after impact and then the doberman just looked at me uncertainly for a few seconds then ran back home. Needless to say I wasn't afraid (he prolly would have attacked if I was.....I was actually pretty pi$$ed off by then lol) and I think he sensed that so he just turned and left.

[SwedeSteve]

Have to agree with Billy. Shoot 'em and deal with it!

[Cr@ckSH0t]

Okay, here is my other story. This past summer I was walking home late one night from work. I live a half a mile from where i work so it isnt far. Now let me give you an idea of what my neighborhood looks like. Middle class, not a planned 'hood, and there are alot of empty lots in my neighborhood that are HEAVILY wooded and very brushy. So, i cross the highway that sits next to my work and walk due south a quarter mile and turn right on my street. My street is about a qurter mile long and I live on the house at the end, also, there are about 30 large lots on my street (Im just making an estimate) with about 12 occupied by a house. The rest are woody and/or full of tall brush. Okay, its about 11 at night and it had been raining lighty since 5 and it was still drizzling, and i was quite wet. So, im walking home and I get about halfway down my street when i notice the bushes about 20 feet in front to my right are shaking slightly, as if an animal is in there. Now, I dont hear anything because im listening to my ipod on full volume. Stray cats and a few dogs are quite common in my 'hood because there are lots of places to hide, we also get foxes, and my friend swears he saw a cougar one time. So as im walking up im not paying much attention to it, i get about 8 feet away when a dog jumps out of the bushes....
Now heres what the dog looked like from my POV, there are only four streetlights and none were near me and it was cloudy that night so there was no moon or stars to light it up slightly, but I can still make out the size and color of this dog. He/she was roughly the size of a medium Great Dane, with a black thin coat and he looked EXACTLY like a German sheperd. So, now the bejesus have been scared out of me by this massive dog jumping out of the bushes and then he starts to growl at me. Soon the adrenaline starts to take over, but I get it under control. So I slowly held my shirt in front of me (I took it off earlier for, who knows what reason)......now what I figured was that if he charged me, I could throw my wet and soggy shirt on his face and get it slightly stuck it could buy me a few seconds to climb one of the trees nearby. So I held the shirt out in front of me ready to throw if i needed to and the dog after another minute of us just staring each other down turns around and walks back into the bushes. Now I just get pissed, I start yelling and cursing the fact that that stupid dog had the balls to jump out and scare me but not do anything else? So after im done with my little rant, i start to walk home. I get 50 feet from the end of my street when I turn around to look down the street and the dog was about 30 feet behind me, just standing there looking straight at me with his tail up in the air, in the middle of the street illuminated by one of the streetlamps above him, looking like a hound from hell. I ran......fast. I swear i crossed those 50 feet of street and the 10 feet of my driveway into my garage in 5 seconds flat. I got inside locked all the doors, turned the outside lights outside on and told my dad what happened, well, needless to say he never believed me.

[aris_unlimited]

Well I know with predators in the woods (bears, cougars etc) if you see them more than once it means they are stalking you and probably plan to attack.

So keeping that in mind this dog was not displaying any signs of being friendly and actually was showing aggression. If I had seen the dog again the second time I would have either feinted a rush at him and try to scare him off, or if that failed try the stare down technique again. But I would not have turned around and left that dog at my back where it was. If it attacked I would have wanted to see it coming.

[Cr@ckSH0t]

Well, put yourself in my shoes. I had no weapons on me or even lying around me, no big rocks or sticks. The dog probably weighed as much as i did, if he was stalking me he was probably going to attack. If he did attack me in that moment I probably wouldnt have been able to get away, but since at that moment i had the upper hand i felt i could run fast enough and either, A. Make it into the garage to try and make a stand where there are an assortment of very lethal and sharp objects lying about or B. Get into the garage, go through the downstairs door into the house. So, at that moment it was a flight or flight decision, haha, Because if I had tried to take that dog on hand to hand, with no weapons, i most surely would have lost. I got real lucky that night because that dog could have taken me on anytime without me noticing.

[Old timer]

For what it is worth. I've seen dogs that were pets by day and predators by night. I have dispatched my share of trouble-some dogs. There is an old saying, Shoot, shovel & shut-up. It helps eliminate that emotional do-gooder that was not there to witness the evil.

[snuffysmith]

I'm reminded of WAY back when I was about 14 or so.
We lived on a farm about 7 miles from a small town in a local farming community. It was summer and times were tough and money hard to come by. I had been working as a field hand. That involved walking or hitching 7 miles into town b4 daylight, and setting on a bench in front of the feed store. A farmer would come by, say "jump in the truck if you want work" and away we'd go. Pay was usually 25c an hr. but it did vary some.
Well, one evening, I got back to town from working kinda late and had missed the going home traffic leaving town. Feet do your stuff. Off I go walking 7 miles in the growing dark.
About 2 miles from home, I had to pass a neighbor who had about a dozen fox hounds that ran loose all the time. When I got even with their place, of course the dogs started in raising a fuss. It's as black as the inside of a sack and I couldn't see 3 feet. One of the dogs went postal and comes running out to the road like he's going after a wild hog or bear.
I acted on instinct and kicked out with my work boots on and caught the dog in the lower jaw, from the sound only as I never saw the dog at all.
All I heard were the sound of breaking teeth and the surprised scream of that hound. I continued walking on home and never did find out what happened to that dog but fair's fair
I like dogs and always have as long as they realize I'm higher up the food chain than they are. LOL

Snuffy

[ArkansasHunter]

I carry my CZ 82 to get the paper in the morning because the neighbors across the street have to jumbo size Pitt Bull dogs that there grandchildren dumped on them to care for.
They have a 4 to 5 foot fense in there backyard and I hope that will keep them in.
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In the city it's not uncommon to read in the news paper of some folks getting mauled by there neighbors pit bulls that break loose.

I will kill the neighbors dogs grave yard dead IF they ever get loose and come at me in a Manner where they appear to being going to get me. Sorry people if that upsets anyone but thats the way it will be !!!

When I was 4 years old I was tackled by a Bull Dog and lucky for me the owner got his dog off me before it killed me.

It got loose and ran about 150 yards and picked me out of 6 other kids...A.H

[billy]

ive been attacked by feral dogs twice and it is the most terrifying thing thats ever happened to me .
i am REAL big on killing wild dogs!
i have NO problem AT ALL blowing them in half.

p.s. both attacks were on the indian reservation.

[gunney_m]

I was chased by a Chow one time(he was pissed!!!)and I ended up with that familier adrenaline(fear energy)and went superman over one of those average neighborhood fences, maybe 3 feet or so but I cleared it without touching!!!

[Farmer]

Hi,
I live in mountain country in NSW Australia. We have the odd dingo around here but feral dogs are a huge problem. There is a little villaga about 20km from me. Its a sheep district, with the best fine wool in the world. Anyway these sheep can make as much money each year as a good cow.

In out last report from the local rural coucil board, sort of a sideways step from a normal council that we also have....The report tells us that 4500 sheep were taken last year worth about $90,000 and over 35000 in the las t decade.

Local farmers are blaming our park rangers as the greenies have stopped them baiting so they dont kill eagles and crows.

I have shot my share of wild dogs on my place and use extreme prejudice, unless i know the dog. I have also put down several of my own dogs that have pack hunted.

There has also been several dingo kills of young children recently in Aus. Dogs are mans best friend, when they are tame otherwise, there number 2 on the food chain.

Rob

[raymond_d_37148]

hi a long time a go in a land far far away called the 1970's i was 16yo and really in to karate and had been for a long time i would run on track at school and run steps in stadium but they closed track to redo it so i started running in neighborhood. there was a lady who either didn't like teenage boys males or just me. any time i would run by her house she would let her dogs out to chase me. i got tired of it real fast as i have a bad fear or dogs due to being attacked when i was 6years old. i called cops and they said if i hurt her dogs i could be arrested. my neighbor told me to take some rubber from a intertube and cut into strips and put on my rear wheel i did.well when i saw dogs outside i got in car drove by they grabbed the strips and the strips grabbed them after that they didn't chase cars, runners,kids on bikes,