one beautfiful night...

i was happily walking my doggie toff at a field near my hse. it was a dark night. from the dims of the street light, i caught a glimpse of a large black dog wandering around the junction toward my hse. toff, being the "i-see-dogs-i-kill-them" (haha, forgive my exaggerating here)-natured dog, quickly went into his "ATTENTION!" posture. Eyes, nose and tail all stood "ready". ready for wat? u know.. being te "i-see-dogs-i-kill-them"... he noticed the huge rottweiler roaming nearby.

Thankfully, i had toff on leash. Unfortunately, the rott was not on leash. But thankfully again, te rott was muzzled. I waited patiently at the field for the rott to walk away, further from my route home. But he lingered around for more than 15 minutes i guess, and i started to lose my patience. Maybe.. the rott is not interested in toff..

So i started my way home. Thankfully, the rott started turning his head away, and walked abt 100m ahead of us. Toff n i walked home very slowly, quietly, pace by pace... n all of a sudden.. the rott turned his head around. I knew he saw us - me and toff. I wanted to flee right away, coz knowing toff's "i-see-dogs-i-kill-them-nature", i'd definitely not want to see him involve in a fight with a rott double his body size.

But it was too late. The rott started jogging towards us. The owner who was so-very-proud of his rott started calling fr behind, "Superman... no.. no... i beat u aaa...wei... hey!!" The rott was deaf to his words. Toff stood on his hindlegs (ready to pounce on the emerging enemy). Running away at this point of time would only worsen things. So i stood firm, held my slippers in my hands, and made toff sit still.

Then Superman arrived at my footsteps. I looked at him - eye-to-eye. Then I said to him, "No." He looked at me, quietly. The owner was walking cum jogging towards us, maybe 50m from us tat time. Suddenly, noti toff pounced onto the rott, expectedly, the rott pounced onto toff, I quickly hit the rott hard everywhere with everything i could, n u could imagine all the growls and huff and puffs breaking the silence of the nite. then the proud owner came and tugged his Superman away.

Phew!! I was angry.
Toff was being noti. Superman couldn't hold his impulses. Toff & Superman were just being dogs.
But the rott owner was overconfident with his Superman. He was not responsible for allowing his rott roam freely. He was not being protective for not chasing his dog after he noticed Superman running towards me n toff. He did not even apologize! He did not even feel sorry!
He was NOT being a man. sad.

IT WAS DOWNRIGHT IRRESPONSIBLE TO WALK YOUR DOG WITHOUT A LEASH, WAT MORE A BIG, HEAVILY-MUSCLED, HUGE-MOUTHED ROTTWEILER! I've handled many many rottweilers before, and I've seen how many of them broke and tore the muzzles. So i know how dangerous it is for a rott to roam freely. Muzzled, or without a muzzle on.

wat if a naughty child bumped unto Superman, mocked him and threw things at him (children very often do these silly stuffs, rite)? Don't tell me tat Superman will stop to think rationally, weighing the advantages and disadvantages of attacking the child. Wat if Superman meets a bitch on heat? So many worse things could happen. Why did the "man" open such unnecessary doors?

Folks out there, please, please (me begging you here), always, always walk your dog on leash. It is simply being a responsible dog-owner for your community. And please, please educate your frineds who have dogs. Irregardless of small or big, or tame or fierce dog, walk them with a leash on.

ps. very often we read in the papers, "rottweilers attack people!". But you know wat? Most of te time, the very culprit was the victim and dog owner, not the dog. The dog was just the scapegoat.