Adam Rawlings

What situations in your every day life would you actually be susceptible to a possible attack where your dog may need to react? I started thinking about this after a few comments were made regarding PPD's readiness/ability to respond during an actual threat.

Personally, I follow a fairly regular routine and I live in Canada (very few gun crimes) so I started thinking about situations I may face. The funny part is other than a home invasion or a threat entering my office (very unlikley), I would be most at risk walking my dog.LOL. I live near a river that has a green belt on either side that attracts homeless drug addicts and under age teenagers that want to party. This also happens to be the best place to take my dog for a stroll.

The only incounter to date was during a late summer night walk. A group of drunk teenagers were trying to make there way out of the bushes onto the main trail and in the process they were making quite a commotion. Naturally my dog fired up. We kept walking and one of the teenagers pissed out of his mind was hell bent on confronting my dog. I stopped walking because he was comming up on us from behind. Chert went to the end of his leash to welcome our new found friend, I warned him that he would get bit if he approached the dog and he didn't seem to care. Luckly one of his friends had enough common sense to see the situation for what it was and pulled him away. End of story.

Brings me back to my point, if I wasn't there in the first place, I wouldn't even need a PPD. I do feel better having him around for those highly unlikley "what if" situations.

How about you?