Most of our neighbors are not dog people. Scared to death of them, in fact.(not just Rotties....any average-large dog). A couple of weeks ago a group of ladies/kids went for a walk down the street to another neighbor's house. This family has a 1 yo lab and a fat, nasty tempered MinPin. Mommy carries "Daytona" everywhere and Daytona doesn't care much for anyone but Mommy. So, we go into the yard where the two kids (11 & 16) are out in the yard with the dogs. Daytona comes tearing over snarling and growling at us all. Then she went under the snowmobile trailer. A five yo boy from across the street bent over and walked toward the trailer trying to see the dog. To his credit he wasn't teasing or yelling or anything, just looking and walking. This little dog came FLYING out from under the trailer straight at this little boy's face. He jumped back and straightened at the same time. What did all the other adults there, and the other kids do? Laughed. Uproariously. How funny that this little tiny dog thinks it's so tough. Think they would have done that if it would have been Spike? Of course not. In fact, one of the neighbors called the police because Spike was sitting in the front yard...he'd scaled the fence and we found him immediately and brought him back in, but not before someone called on it. Fortunately the CS officer was very nice and very aware that it's not the breed. She said she wasn't going to do anything about the call because it was obvious that Spike was a darling. But of course, she had to check on it. But it was funny that the little dog went after a little boy. Sigh.....
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