Yeah, it was me. If you wanna see what happened and what everyone had to say, ya can take a look at the link in Boomah's post.
Simone, glad to hear you are ok and even fought back!
my person told me to pass on a couple things. after thinking about it a lot, will be getting pepper spray and a small foghorn. Pepper spray mainly for prevention, to use on a dog that is charging towards us. if the fight's already happening, she doesn't want to use pepper spray as much, first because she might pepper spray me, and second because it might not be effective in stopping the other dog, and then it would really be difficult to intervene w/pepper spray in the air.
Foghorn to try to make sudden loud noise so the attacking dog/coyote will stop for a moment, then my owner can pull me away.
A weapon of mass destruction, like a bat or pool cue. Woulda been helpful in the attack i was in, because i was lying there and the other dogs were chewin' on me. my person says that she coulda used something on the big dog's backs or kicked them (tho someone told us how they got bit by an attacking dog like that). but WMD (weap.m.destruc) not so useful if it is a frenzy and the dogs are running/jumping around. ie. hard to know where to strike.
my person has learned that dogfights can really happen anywhere, anytime when there are 2 dogs. even at my evening playgroup with super responsible owners and nice dogs who are overall not aggressive. the other day, Maggie, a nice lab retriever, and an Australian shepherd were not getting along and they got into a scuffle. my person wasn't going to intervene because it wasn't me. but she says even if she wanted to, it happened so fast and there was so much jumping and changing positions, it was impossible to know where to strike a dog with a WMD. the Australian shepherd's owner's a vet tech and went in and pulled her big dog away and into her arms. that stopped the fight. but risky methinks.
so these days, in addition to prevention, we are planning to deal w/potential dog attacks w/4 things to carry: 1. pepper spray 2. small foghorn 3. WMD 4. break stick (it's what you can use when a pit bull bites... i think Mikey put the links in the 'Poor Guy' thread).
dunno if this is helpful info, but this is what we decided on...
--your pal, Worm
ps. my leash was dropped and I couldn't get away from the 2 dogs even tho i tried running away from them...