Here is my statement to Animal Control on what happened last night. They started investigating.
This evening I was walking down Image Circle with my son, Anthony, in his stroller and my two miniature beagles, Peanut and Buster, on their leashes.
When we got down to the paved area to the right (a dead end pavement area) two very large dogs came running at us. The garage door was open to a blue
house with white trim, 3166 Image Circle. I believe the two dogs came from this house. One dog was white and fluffy, like a Husky or a Chow, and the other was
multi-colored I believe white and black. I could not tell you the breed of that dog, because it really didn't register with me.
They ran at my son to start with, who was sitting in the stroller. He started crying and yelling and the dogs seemed to lose interest with him and went after my
dogs. They went after the smaller one, Peanut. She started yelping, but I could not tell if they harmed her because I was able to get her up off the pavement and
into my arms.
As I was trying to pick up Buster, the two dogs started biting at his back, just below his neck. I tried to get the two dogs off him by pushing them away with my foot,
but trying to hold one dog, making sure my son was not injured and rescue my other dog was impossible.
After about a minute a younger girl, probably 6-10 years old, came running at us. I yelled at her "Get your dogs!". She started crying and mentioned something
about her sister and ran back in the direction of the house at 3611.
Two cars passed by us before a man in a full size gray truck stopped and asked if we needed help. I told him yes and he immediately got out and grabbed one of
the dogs off. I looked up and there was an older dark-haired female getting the other dog. She took the dogs, along with the younger girl, and went the direction
of 3611 Image. The man asked if I was okay and I told him yes and thanked him for helping.
I pulled my son, who was almost hysterical at this point, over off the road to the paved area on the right and calmed him down and checked my dogs to see if they
were okay. My larger dog, Buster, got the worst of the mauling. He winced when I touched his back, but I did not see any blood or any lacerations/bite marks. It
might be a little swollen, but nothing broke the skin.
This could not have taken more than two or three minutes, but when I looked up, the garage door of 3611 was shut and there was no one in the area. Neither of
the two females came back to check on us or see if our dogs were okay. I did notice at this time, though, that a red car was leaving that general area. I'm not sure
if it came from that house or not.
After checking on my dogs and making sure my son was okay, we continued our walk towards home. I looked towards the house at 3611 and there were no lights
on. No one appeared to be home.
One I arrived home, I called my husband on his cell phone at 5:41 pm. I told him what happened. On his way home at 6:50 pm, he stopped by the house at
3611 Image Circle. He said it appeared that no one was home. The lights were out. There was a van in the driveway with disabled veteran plates, but no red car
or any dogs outside that would resemble the dogs I described.
What I would like to see is these two dogs not be able to do this to another person or dog. This was a very scary situation and if the man hadn't stopped to help us,
I have no idea what would have happened with my dogs. These dogs should not be allowed to be off their leashes when the opportunity to be in public exists. In
my opinion, they are dangerous and something needs to be done.
How horrible, Chach. I am so glad that man came along in the truck and that you guys are ok. I would be most interested to hear more, if there are other developments.
Points or no points, I think I'd have helped myself to a glass of wine after that!
linda
Hi guys, morning here. No time to write. Want to break a sweat on the bike before getting off to work. It makes all the difference but there's just no time usually. Have to be up at 3 a.m. to get out to ride before going to the racetrack tomorrow so if I don't do some exercise this morning I won't get any in till who knows when. Derry, I'd take you up on the challenge but my schedule really makes it hard. I love to work out. It's just so hard to find the time. I am going to try to break a good sweat though as often as possible. To me, exercise isn't just walking. To me I need to sweat!!
Raven -- I don't know your dog so I don't know the story. You give me some stuff to go on and more detail about the mythology stuff and we could come up with something. Well, I could do a Net search for the mythology stuff so that's not a problem. No, it's the anecdotes that you need for a story. Of course, I could make it all up. I don't know about kid's book publishing but I have always loved children's books. Probably it's a hard market to break into but I think, like with anything, it's best to have a sweet story, good pictures and that's it, you gotta go with that. The rest is connections, which is mostly about timing and promotion and catching the eye of an editor. I know a lot of people have an idolized picture of newspaper work and publishing work, but having worked in both so many years, I have NONE! Of course, you should have good work. If you have good work, it's not so hard to get published. But the first rule of any good writer is you DON'T do it for the money. If you start getting dollar/yen signs in your eyes, forget it! It's got to come from the heart alone, you've got to want to get that story out there because it screams to be told. . . . My best writing has been torn from me, tears rolling down my face. They were stories, always nonfiction, that made other people cry but I never intended to make anyone cry. You've got to be moved to move others. . . . I'm a sucker for moving stories. Life has me by the tail most of the time shaking me around and I love it. . . Seriously, my brother and sister are both talented artists needing some more creative outlet in their lives right now. Maybe we should seriously look into this. I can see the story of little Callisto thrown up in the sky to become Ursa Major or her dreaming of it, or of that story being introduced and then her fighting for her life in the plastic bag. It could be a tale with symbolic empowerment for little girls, fighting to not be suffocated by society, to LIVE! to shine brightly like the stars in the constellations.. . hmm, give me more snapshots of personality, anecdotes etc. maybe there's something that would even further fuel a story. It doesn't have to BE the story, it can be something to INSPIRE a story. Japan could even be a market. Children's books are beautiful here.
Rave, yeah, what did I think, right, with Heidi-chan. I sure hope she's OK. She's getting ridden hard these days, not just by me. I want her to have some fun and I don't think she has any. Just pats and carrots aren't enough. I wish I could do more. Let her have a better life. It's so hard here. There is no grass turnout, barely turnout at all. I don't know how much she's ridden, though not more than once a day, but the place I'm at it's all so competition oriented and ultra serious. I don't know. For a horse who is into energy conservation I wonder if I'm doing the wrong thing or if I'm being too easy on her. No mice in the bed this morning. When I heard the cat door swing and next feel one of the cats looking to come under the covers, I DID turn on the light to see if anything was hanging out of his mouth! Nothing this morning . . .
Jolly -- come on, just do it! You were exercising. What happened? Good for you for not hibernating though. Hair cut, color, excellent. You are probably just having a little breather. Don't fret. Either do it or don't do it but don't get yourself in a knot over what you decide. That just gives you no enjoyment whatsoever on top of the no exercise, overeating spiral. When you decided to work, work, when you decide to play, play but don't sit there feeling guilty somewhere in between.
Chachee -- sorry to hear about your scare with the dogs. Glad no one seems the worse for wear. Your little boy sounds like he needs to get out there and punch some pretend monsters to get his courage back or give him some if he's naturally timid. A scare like that can send him down the road of lifelong timidity and fear of dogs. You've got to fight it now!
Derry -- look at you, pooh-poohing your weight. You were fearing 3 lbs up and it's half that!! So good! You're doing a lot better than you're thinking, I'd say. I'm glad you got to a meeting. They sound important to you and we've got to go with the important things in our life. You can't put prices on everything even though they come with prices. And your NSV was great. Stay away from fried rice! It's horrible stuff, loaded with empty calories. You can do much better by doing things the Japanese way of cooking rice together with vegetables, mushrooms, chestnuts are traditional ways. There are a lot of Japanese dishes that aren't known widely but they are so good and so good for you! Chinese tends to be a lot of meat, a lot of grease . . . do you have a rice cooker or do you just boil it?
Hi all. Real quick end of the day post. Chachee, wow. I am glad nobody was seriously hurt, and very thankful for the man who stopped. I hope animal control is able to do something. That is just not right. How is your son doing?? I will take you up on your challenge. I can do it. Maybe enough of these short challenges, and I will get my rear moving again.
Everyone else , howdy. I have to do my bills quick, then head off to work. Have a good weekend!!
Flyby, doing a jolly here. . hi there! I pedalled my bike 30 minutes before work this morning. Hurrah! I WANT sugar!! But I held out today too. It is so hard. I'm tired of this challenge. It's TOO long!! Help!! 6 1/2 weeks, that is too long. What was I thinking!? Actually I was thinking 40 days, but it's longer! UGH!! Rant, rant, I did have the one day of bingeing, but it was a small binge. No nuts either and I lived on those things. Must save at least 500 calories a day in nuts every day alone. . .Ok, gotta run. Must be up at 3:45 a.m. tomorrow, ride, run home, quick shower, run to the racetrack. Oh god. I am just too busy. But I do it to myself. I think I'm insane. . ..
Red, you must share a "recipe" for cooking rice the Japanese way, I'm intrigued and it sounds so good! I cook rice by boiling it, don't have a rice cooker.
Hey, this Calisto thing was bugging me and I knew I was right.... funny how things get in your head and stay there! Check out this: http://servant.geol.cf.ac.uk/solar/eng/callisto.htm
At any rate, I am just now getting off line for a quick breakfast, then I am going to toss on some clothes and head up to a local town hall here in NH where there is a food co-op. It's set up so if you do any kind of volunteer work you are allowed to purchase groupings of foods for 40% off. I'm going to try it and see how it all works.
At any rate, I'll be doing my treadmill when I get back and showering.
Red, see, you could do the challenge in the end!
I'm going to do my time on the treadmill, I must!
DH got up early and left here for the airport about about 4:30 am, he is in NYC now. Modern air travel still amazes me, I know it's been over a hundred years since airplanes were invented, but little things always amaze me when you start to think about. Here has in our nice warm bed in NY four hours ago, now he's walking on the streets of NYC on his way to an interview. If he drove there from here, it would take hours when the "shuttle" from Boston to NYC is only 40 minutes. Amazing stuff.
Yeah, I'm easily amused, I know.
Sounds like more than three of us are accepting the "Mini" challenge for four days. If we can all take the time to exercise for ONLY this time period, maybe we will break our negative habits. I set up 20 minutes as my goal, even though I will probably do more, as a ww members earns one point to EAT for every 20 minutes of exercise, basically. So, this motivates me all the more! Sly, right?
Have a good one guys, Chach, hope you can find a place to walk that is in a different direction from that awful place where you were attacked. Are you in an area where there are different routes to take?
Linda
Ok .. I'm not in the best frame of mind right now.
My dog is still not eating, I've started forcing soft food on her just to keep her going. She's drinking well, peeing, and poos fine when we can get food in her. She has no other symptoms at all. I ordered the dewormer in the hopes that getting rid of the tapes will help. I keep hoping she'll just snap out of it, I guess I'm praying it's just a stomach bug, much like V and I had for a week or more. And if the dewormer doesn't do it, then I need a vet visit.
Which brings me to... my car pretty much blew up on me last night on the drive home. I did make it home, but literally burst into tears the minute Richard came out the door to make sure I was ok. Driving on a 7 lane interstate in Atlanta in a car with an engine that is threatening to seize any second now is absolutely terrifying. I swear I was so close to throwing up it's not funny.
And so how do I get the dog to the vet with no car? Which brings me to a bit of good news, and that is that work (since I work for an auto re-financer) has offered to set me up in a vehicle. Now.. when that will happen, I have no clue. I obviously cannot drive my escort anymore. I've already spoken to my boss, and he's has already talked to the owner and let him know what the situation is. I guess I just have to keep the faith here, yes?
I haven't seen my horses in two weeks, it's driving me insane, and it looks like I won't get to see them this weekend either.
On a positive, I did get the database I'm working on for the company uploaded to my domain, so I can download that to my home computer and work on that from home if they'll let me.
Why does everything happen at once?
*EDIT to include...*
Ok. This mini challenge thing. That sounds doable. Linda, you're right. The bigger challenges are just overwhelming to me right now. I can barely challenge myself to .. shoot, I don't know .. *twitch* do much of anything right now. But 20 minutes for 4 days. That sounds almost manageable.
I'm in on that. Starting today. 20 minutes for 4 days. *nod nod* Maybe that will give me something to focus on that I feel like I have SOME sort of control over.
Raven, sorry that things are not going well for you. I'm thinking that if your dog has something wrong with it's stomach that maybe dewormer might be harsh and not a good idea. I wonder if it would be best to consult with the vet and admit that you have been unemployed recently and just don't have the funds to bring the dog in... maybe they'll give you a price break and allow you to pay over time? Just an idea.
One time, a few years ago when DH was unemployed (yes, it happened before) my cat Grover started vomiting repeatedly. He needed to go to the vet and my DH said that if there was something seriously wrong that we would have to have him put to sleep. I was apalled and freeking out. The vet's assistant knew I was having troubles and didn't charge us for the X-rays they took. By the way, Grover had eaten chunks of firewood splinters from our woodpile, they were blocking him. However, he was given a heavy laxative and antivomiting meds and finally it all passed. We were lucky and he is fine as of this day.
Just want to report that I did 40 minutes on the treadmill. Amazing that I watched a food program on tv while I was on the treadmill about chocolate! If I can't have it, may as well watch it? Oh well.
Linda
We'll be so informed! Just a quickie. It's going on 5 a.m. and I have to run!
Later all!
Whoops, sorry, Raven, I just saw your post so came back in here. Callisto must get better! I am praying for her. Let's hope it's just a bug. Changing seasons and all. I have no time to read the posts now. Just know my thoughts are with you.
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Hey all - real quickie as I get ready to go out tonight. What a concept.` I did 40 minutes on the Precor. One day down, three to go, to get my good habit started again. I just read a really good book, "The Tao of Horses." Reminded me that life is lived one moment at a time, and focusing on the moment. So, one decision at a time, I will pull myself out of this funk.
congrats to everyone on getting todays exercise in. Good luck with Callisto, Raven.
Back from riding. Quick read while hair is drying, then off to the racetrack! Jolly, I hope you had a good time. Going out is so important! Derry, does a ride on my horse count. It was cold so I didn't sweat but I walked half an hour both to and from the station. Can I say I exercised today. If so, I think I can swing the challenge. I'll have no time tonight to do anything. Don't like to get my heartbeat up before trying to sleep. Tomorrow will be toughest. Raven, I can't believe you haven't seen your horses in two weeks! You poor thing! But don't forget, you are doing this because you are working to a better life for you AND them! Hang in there kid! Chachee, how are you? How is your little boy? I do so hope he doesn't hate dogs after this. Miniature beagles is what you have, right? I've never seen them. Must be adorable. Take care! All, everyone else not posting now, hello! Hope to hear from you soon!
My stomach has recovered! I lost one pound because of it!
I'm in on the 20 min for 4 days thing. I will do my exercise video for 20 min for 4 days. yuck
Derry, I'm glad things are looking up for you!
Raven, hang in there, I'm sure you're stars will line up soon!
Chachee, I read your incident report. Dogs seem to have a thing about strollers, my son has been barked at in threating ways in 2 seperate incidents, while in a stroller. Unfortunately, my dog Sabrina is a bad doggy when it comes to other dogs. I don't think she would ever hurt a human unless he/she is threatening me or another family member, and we're very cautious with people she is meeting for the first time in our home. (She especially dislikes men) She hates little dogs especially. That's why I don't like taking her for walks. Before we lived in our current home we rented a place without a fenced in yard. We'd let the dogs out in the empty lot next door. Once someone was walking 2 beagles across the street and she ran across the (busy) street to get at them. I was 9 months pregnant at the time. My sister-in-law had to run after her and catch her. No one or dog was hurt, but I felt terrible because they were all very scared.Another time I was walking her and my other dog in the woods. She was on a leash because I know I can't trust her, but another dog came along that was't leashed and a 3 dog fight ensued, with my big pregnant belly in the middle of it. I finally picked up a stick and whacked the other dog really hard and it ran away. That woman who came out should have said something to you. Come back out after she put the dog away to make sure you were all OK. Coward.
Whoa. That went on too long.
By the way, Red, it sounds like you're about to break out of your road block. Yeah!!
On my way to the airport. Good Night!
Hey all - real quick post. Hope everyone is ok. I did 30 minutes on the recumbent bike today. Normally, I dont' consider that much of a workout, but today, I think I deserve an extra pat on the back for that. 1) i was walking one of my dogs this mroning and fell down on some ice. 2) I was riding my horse, and he decided to practise his gymnastic manuevers, and did a backwards somersault with me on top. or bottom. Actaully, a bit of both. 3) Then, when I got to the gym, I realized I forgot to pack a tshirt. I did not let this last bit of bad luck act as a sign to go home, I threw on my sweatshirt and did a small workout. I am off to take a warm bubble bath now, and hope to keep the aches at bay.
Have a good evening all. I hope everyone is good, that pets get better, jobs workout, choices are good - etc etc,
Red, of course what you did counts for exercise!
I'm thinking about Calisto and yes we are learning, that was an interesting story to read.
I was not a good girl this weekend, but I still didn't break down and have chocolate, it's getting harder and harder to do this. Easter is Sunday and I am really looking forward to my personal favoriate, those lovely malted milk ball eggs. At any rate, I will allow myself a few goodies and then be good afterwards.
I have been good as far as exercise goes, though, at least.
Well, time to go do my workout, take care everyone.
Linda
Hey all. I have to admit, I did not make it to the gym today. I woke up feeling all sorts of aches and pains. I stayed home from both jobs (sigh). So, I will go back tomorrow, and try for tomorrow and Wednesday for my four days.
I lost one pound because of it! 
