Terrifying and Upsetting Experience

Caelyn, Wendy and I went to town this morning. She went into a shop while I waited outside as I had the dog with me. She went into Savers, but a Bull Terrier was tied up outside that shop so I went along two shops down to look at the Christmas Cards in the Heart Foundation window. A man with a Bull Terrier on a lead walked by. I'm sure it was the same dog who had been tied up outside Savers.

The Bull Terrier grabbed Brakkie and pulled him off the scooter, snapping Brakkie's steel lead. He had him by the throat and nobody could get the Bull Terrier off Brakkie.
Caelyn came out of the shop and began screaming. I was screaming because I couldn't see Brakkie coming out of that alive. He did though. God knows how. Perhaps the dog mostly had Brakkie's thick fur in his mouth and didn't have time to get a proper grip, with everyone trying to pull him off Brakkie. It was completely unprovoked. Brakkie was just sitting there minding his own business as he always does when we are out.

It wasn't simply upsetting to see, but to hear as well, as Brakkie was screaming too, and it sounded like a child. Men wrestling with the Bull Terrier, trying to get him off. People in the crowd were shouting too.

Traffic Wardens were on the scene very quickly. The Bull Terrier eventually let go and people were very kind to us. A lady from Rooks was really nice and sweet to us, and people looked after Caelyn and Woozle. People were so good, it was astonishing. The Traffic Wardens got the owner of the Bull Terriers details, but we think they are false because he said it was a friend's dog. A passer by said he had seen that guy around town with that dog for weeks. The Traffic Wardens called the Police who were busy with a big accident in Dover Rd, so they didn't come, understandably.

Caelyn and I were so shook up. So was Brakkie. I have no idea how he wasn't injured, but he wasn't. He too was in shock though. We tried to get him checked by the Manor Rd Vets but they were shut. So Caelyn went home to make tea and I went into the Police Station. The Traffic Wardens were there, making a statement about the incident. The Police are still a bit too busy, but someone will call me later.

Caelyn and I both have sore throats and husky voices from screaming. I'm surprised as normally I cope in a crisis and haven't screamed like that for years. She is still very shocked as we had a poodle called Jinky. On the way home from hospital after Caelyn was born, we stopped at his breeders house and picked him up. He was her "special" childhood friend. When she was 10, she took him for a walk and a Rottweiler jumped over a fence and killed him in front of her. The owner offered Caelyn's father compensation in the form of one of the Rottweiler's puppies, and he accepted it!!!!!! She is 20 now and still isn't over that. And we had a tabby point Siamese, Thandi, who was killed by a Bull Terrier too, so we have had quite enough of aggressive dogs attacking our pets.

Thank God it wasn't a child!