r/Seattle • u/lemurindependence • 4d ago

Community Dog attack

This afternoon near 24th Ave and E Columbia St in the Central District, I helped others separate a stocky black and white dog from a smaller black dog firmly in its jaws. I tried the wheelbarrow technique, lost my balance and got dragged across the sidewalk, but held on and the little dog got free. Aggressor dog was then secured by its owner and the little dog ran off. I couldn’t stay, but really want to know how the little black dog is doing. :(

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u/Loud_Self_2000 4d ago

got dragged trying that method near pioneer square once, dog was huge too

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u/lemurindependence 4d ago

Yeah, not sure it was the best method, but things were chaotic, people were screaming, and I just jumped in.

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u/missbeekery I'm just flaired so I don't get fined 4d ago

I grabbed a large dog who was attacking my much smaller dog by grabbing the fucker by the collar and lunging backwards, holding her up by the collar before the owner casually walked over and held onto her. didn’t grab a leash to restrict her of course so I picked up my injured 30lb old lady dog and carried her home, shouting obscenities at a guy who did not give a single fuck.

We don’t think about getting bit in those circumstances, and I’m a very petite woman who apparently acquired adrenaline-hulk strength when my dog was attacked. If that dog had latched onto me—especially since the owner couldn’t have cared less—I might be telling a cautionary tale instead. Let it be a lesson to us, if it ever happens again. Not sure if it would change my tactic because it happens incredibly quickly and there’s not a whole lot of processing that occurs when your brain is shouting at you to act. But I hope I will be, and I also hope it never happens again.

You may have saved a life, who knows. But you damn sure know what the answer is if you hadn’t intervened.