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Beautiful weather today....kids out in the front yard playing with other kids, family dog ( Sammy) in front playing with kids....I am making dinner, husband on phone and looking out the front window watching the kids......all of a sudden SCREAMING....I run from the kitchen to see my husband trying to pry a f------ pit bull of my dog. ( Sammy weighs in sopping wet at 35 #'s) I run out adding my own screaming to the mix- yelling about whose dog this is, and for the kids to run into the garage and into the house......my husband picks up a whiffle ball bat and starts beating on the pit bull ( a mix we find out later....) I know instictively this plastic bat is't gonna do diddley...so I run to a corner of my front yard and grab my daughter's metal pogo stick....at one point I remember thinking 'this is really a stupid move', but knew my kids were in the house, and I put my self on top of the dogs trying in vain to separate them. My 74 yr old father comes flying out of the house and is trying to get a hold of the pit bull ( mix, sorry!) neck to break it.....I am stabbing the dog and batting the dog with the pogo stick, and unfortunately hit my dad's hand so hard it split open...( never piss me off or attack one of my kids- there is the lesson, dammit!) Husband is hitting the dog in the butt- me? I am aiming for the head and eyes with the damn pedals on the pogo- screw the handle part, I am going for pain! Before all and God, if I would've had a gun handy, that pit bull ( mix...) would've been a history lesson. For whatever reason, the damn dog finally gets pried off by my father, sits down and looks at us, like ' what is going on? I want to play!' more screaming as I wrestle my squealing dog into the house followed by my husband and father. My kids are in damn hysterics, literally, and I am just adrenalin overload as well as father and husband. My Mother ( who has the start of Alzheimers) is confused about the screaming and crying and Sammy's squeals of pain, as well as my father's blood, which is everywhere! Police are called, neighbor comes to claim his dog, apologizes profusely, says " he has never done this before, he is a pit bull mix and he loves kids....( to eat???)" I want the dog to be taken away and out of the neighborhood.....husband talks to the police ( who agree with me, actually police man was ready to kill first and ask questions later)....longer story short, no charges are being pressed, Sammy ( thank God)is not bleeding, just very very sore and in shock....pit bull mix is on the record of having a vicious attack and the ownerwill not get a chance if a second complaintcomes in. ( dead, no questions asked)I have issues that my husband let the guy go with an apology and the promise to pay all vet bills. Not enough for me....I want the dog out of my kid filled ( and dog filled) neighbor hood immediately or at the VERY least, a fence built around his home so the dog has a harder time leaving the yard. ( he got loose out of the front door.) This dog lives on the same side of the street as us, and we have to pass the house on the way to my kids bus stop/ I will be carrying mace from now on.....maybe a sharpened arrow as well! My kids are still very terrorized by the fact that they were in their OWN YARD and a dog came in and attacked my dog.........Please add comments, but only if you agree with me....if you think that pit bull mix has the right to get loose and attack another dog, who is in their own yard, go blow....or better yet, come visit me, I have a pogo stick with your name on it...You'll know you are at the right place by the fence around my property. Foot note, my father is fine, huge bandage, no broken bones.....guy was telling the cop his dog got injured and had blood on him ( the dog) Cop tells him- yeah, he got hit with a pogo stick a few times, you're lucky she didn't kill him! Cop assures it would've been justified. Calm children and parents, i am drinking wine intrevenously......

sorry if my comments have offended any, I love my family which includes pets, and I wouldn't change a thing about how I handled myself, except for the hit to father's hand....have to practice my swing. I am also a responsible pet owner, and if that had been my dog attacking another dog in a yard , I would personally have taken Sammy to the vet and said my goodbyes. A dog who gets loose and attacks a dog doesn't belong in a neighborhood-it needs to be either dead or on lots of property away from irratants.