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My husband woke me up early this morning by calling from the living room, "Come look! The babies are outside and another pup is playing with them!" ("the babies" being Dabney and Jackson, our two 8-month-old Standard Poodles.)
I sleepily toddled in to the living room and looked out into the back yard, and saw the puppies frolicking with a gorgeous pit bull. They were romping and running and playing, tails all wagging happily.
Dixon, who is very fearful of and aggressive toward other dogs, came over, saw the visiting pit bull, and started barking her head off.
Before I could stop him, my hubby said, "Dixon, you want to go play too?" and opened the door and let her out... of course, she went charging up to this pit bull and barking crazily RIGHT in his face.
Thankfully, the pittie good-naturedly turned and trotted away, wagging his tail behind him.
I was yelling at my husband, "WHY did you do that??? You KNOW she's aggressive and that could have ended up having a really bad outcome!! If that pittie had decided to fight back, one of them could have been seriously hurt!!"
He brushed me off and said Dixon did nothing wrong and was just defending her property. Umm, that's not the point... the point is what HE (my husband!) did was really stupid... letting a dog-aggressive poodle go out and start telling off a pit bull... am I right about this??
I sleepily toddled in to the living room and looked out into the back yard, and saw the puppies frolicking with a gorgeous pit bull. They were romping and running and playing, tails all wagging happily.
Dixon, who is very fearful of and aggressive toward other dogs, came over, saw the visiting pit bull, and started barking her head off.
Before I could stop him, my hubby said, "Dixon, you want to go play too?" and opened the door and let her out... of course, she went charging up to this pit bull and barking crazily RIGHT in his face.
Thankfully, the pittie good-naturedly turned and trotted away, wagging his tail behind him.
I was yelling at my husband, "WHY did you do that??? You KNOW she's aggressive and that could have ended up having a really bad outcome!! If that pittie had decided to fight back, one of them could have been seriously hurt!!"
He brushed me off and said Dixon did nothing wrong and was just defending her property. Umm, that's not the point... the point is what HE (my husband!) did was really stupid... letting a dog-aggressive poodle go out and start telling off a pit bull... am I right about this??