dog attacks ... whos experianced them?

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following on from Llewelyns post and the BHS drumming up awareness got me thinking and i wondered how many people have been attacked by dogs while on horses?

me and buster were chased by a huge alsation for about 1/2 a mile. it wasnt the first time this dog has done it and i reported it and the guy was given a final warning and thretened with court, he also wrote a horrid letter to dog warden saying it was all my fault and that by walking along a bridle path i had provoked the dog. apperently he had done the same with the 3 other complaints they had recieved about the dog. it has bitten a horse before as well as chase me and others yet the owner still refuses to even put it on a lead which is totally irresponsible
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who else has been attacked by a dog?
 
Eric was attacked in the field by a dog, he lost his life few months later due to infection taking over his body. Same dog had attacked my daughter and friend when out hacking, getting hold of their boots and hanging on... Police did nothing even though we had a name.
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Not exactly an attack but about this time last year T and I had an encounter with an out of control bouncy labradoodle. I could see the dog hurtling thorugh the farmers fields ahead of me on the bridlepath with its owners. A few minutes earlier a couple of other horses had passed it so I made the mistake of thinking it would be ok to keep going along the track. As I approached (still about 200m away) the dog just suddenly took off with its owner shouting at it. I stopped T on the bridlepath so that we didn't get any closer. However the dog made a beeline for him. Belted up to us barking and bouncing. I think that it just wanted to play. But it jumped up all round T. He was terrified, tried to bolt, but I kept him under control whilst shouting at the owners to get the dog under control. They kept trying to chase it away from T but it just kept coming back and bouncing at him. He eventually lost it and let fly with a back foot, catching the dog a glancing blow. The dog left us alone then. I felt bad for it, but T took over 2 hours to settle and recover, he was a wired wreck afterwards - normally nothing bothers him. He is still really worried about dogs and I alway shout to walkers to put dogs on leads before we go past. It left me feeling really angry, that dog could have been badly hurt - it wasn't T's fault he felt he had to defend himself. If people who aren't able to control their dogs kept them on leads it wouldn't be a problem.
 
Never been attacked, but been chased and almost ended in an accident. My child was riding out and I was following on foot. We came into the village and suddenly a yappy terrier ran out of a garden and jumped up at pony. Pony scooted across the road infront of a car (who slammed on his brakes) and dog gave chase, yapping at his heels. Thankfully I managed to get to them and kicked the dog in the side, which sent it off yelping, and was then able to get child and pony back out from the road. The owner saw me kick their dog, and shouted at me, so i'm afraid I gavce him a mouthful of colouful language and told him that if he wanted to make a complaint I could always explain to the police how his dog almost caused an RTA by chasing a child on a pony. he shut up after that
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I wasn't attacked per se but I have been chased by 2 Labs (of all dogs!! I know they aren't exactly hard to train!).

The woman walking them was miles away and had zero control. I ended up having to ride at them.

I gave the woman a right earful, for which I did feel bad about afterwards, but she was just lucky I was on my sensible oldie who has forgotten it now but spooked the whole way home that day
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DOGS SHOULD BE KEPT UNDER CONTROL! It is my pet hate
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On the other hand though the other day when we were hacking we passed someone who had their dog by the side of the road, under control but he stopped us from afar and asked us if the horses were ok with dogs as the dog had never seen a horse and was a bit excited.
What a nice, sensible person. The dog was totally fine and we let him have a look at the horses and spoke to him for a few minutes. That is common sense
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Attacked while out hacking on Cat near Weston woods, N Herts. There was a rough man with 4 greyhounds on a lead & one off the lead. I hug back hoping he'd put a hand on the dog's collar & let me past, but he didn't so I did a wide U shape onto the field to give him a v wide berth. The dog absolutely went for Cat, leapt up at his face / shoulder & then tried to bite his back legs.

Cat kicked it & it yelped & ran away, & the man was v v abusive. I was v worried as we were in sight of the yard & I didn't want him to know where we 'lived'. Cat got a cut on the inside of one leg from his opposite shoe when he leapt away when the dog was going for his face.

Reported it to the police who were superbly disinterested. They turned up twice when I'd told them I'd be out & closed the case, & I got it reopened, then they didn't bother turning up to the next appt.

Was v worried about the whole thing cos I used to ride alone v early before work & sometimes saw the man, but luckily we moved not long after.
 
Ive had a couple of encounters and its completely ruined my confidence, I now hate riding alone. I rode at a English Bull pup/young dog after it squared up to us, thinking I would scare it away as I had stood still and it wasnt going no where and the bugger went for my horse who bolted and we were chased for about 2 laps of the park. I also had a problem with a staffy that thankfully was muzzled as it would have bit my horse. I get so mad as if a dog owner knows there dog is bad with horses and wants to let it off its lead on a bridleway then just muzzle it. Whats the problem with that? Grrrrr
 
I had a jrt nip at the fetlocks of my pony when I was a kid. Vim kicked out in retaliation and the dog was injured, woman owner who shoud not have been in the field in the first place demanded that my parents pay all vets costs. They told her where to go and then suggested that she pay the costs we would inccur when we called our vet out to look at pony!
 
I have had dogs run out at me from their driveways before and have fallen off (i think once?) when this happened (horse was a tw*t and bronced with me) needless to say the terrier owner received some colouful language!!

There is also a large black poodle that runs out at me - very scary, and my current horse HATES dogs! I find it hard to make him go past the well behaved ones!
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he always goes for mine if they are loose in the field now too. (Although he works in cahoots with his horsey mate, one will distract me while the other goes for my dogs - naughty horses!!
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I have always been active with my whip when dogs have come too close - not scared of hitting them myself if they come too close and are at risk of being kicked by my otherwise sensible horse. Athought obviously this only works if your horse is less bothered by a whip than a dog, which mine is - lazy b*gger!!
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My daughter who was 12 on the time was out riding with her older cousin when a man with two labradors not properly undercontrol, the girls had to cross a water splash but one labrador was being very aggressive and block my daughters ponys passage and the second dog came behind obviously my daughters pony is a feisty madam and thought nothing of giving the dog one good kick unfortunately the dog received a broken leg and the owner ended up with a hefty vet bill. I was more worried about my daughter ontop, thankfully the pony didnt bolt or seem too worried.
 
From the other side.....I have a dog who is normally reliable but chased some horses (from our own livery yard!!!! how embarrassing is that)- tho not biting them. Thankfully no major problems resulted.

Since that day dog is always on a 30m long line for walks Even if I cannot see the horses, it is my responsibility to keep both dog and horses safe!

Luckily we are now moving to somewhere with land so doglet has a 6ft fenced 4 acre field to run wild in safely :-)

The only sympathy I have is where peeps have a dog who is normally 100% and they havent come across horses before or had any opportunity to and are in a place they wouldnt expect to: then it could happen dog will chase. Once . But owner ought to be able to catch them.

Standing still if dog chases is I think def less risky despite some of the stories above because many dogs can outrun and outstamina a horse.
 
I've been chased a few times by dogs on the beach, but luckily my horses have never given a monkeys and the dogs have just been excited not out for the 'kill'. I either ride at them or ride back towards the owner so that they can put it on a lead. The owners have always been really apologetic.
 
Lady has been attacked twice and chased numerous times by out of control dogs (often unattended), she is now very nervous of them and will turn and bolt if a loose dog runs towards her. Fudge has been chased a couple of times.
I will politely ask people to put their dog on a lead if I think it's likely to cause a problem and thank them for doing so. Personally, I think dogs should have to remain on a lead if they are on a public bridleway as this would stop many attacks where the owners let their dogs roam to far ahead or cannot recall them.
 
I was hacking my boy out and passed a house on the same side of the road, I know they have a dog as it usually runs around the garden barking wheneven we go past (either way). But that day it came running out of the yard and was running in and out of his legs barking and trying to nip him, he woudln't go forwards because of the dog and started to try and rear (this was in the middle of the road). But some a**hole in a car tried to squeeze past us and he was no more than an inch away from his hocks!
Eventually the dog gave up and we carried on and we have two corners after each other and they are blind ones, after the second corner I have to cross the road, so I was stood waiting to cross when another car came around the corner that fast that if I haven't been on the pavement he would have gone straight into us.

Horrible hack!
 
I've been chased by 3 alsations whilst out hacking, luckily my horse had her head screwed on the right way that day and didn't run too far so I could stop and get close enough to give them a good wack or three with my stick!! The owners then came along and got a right ear bashing! Another dog bit my horses back leg once, not bad luckily not too bad!
And although slightly different, a stupid dog owner let her dog run up to and jump up (whilst on a lead) at 2 kids in my class (I work in a special school), they hate dogs and the women let the dogs carry on with them screaming and screaming, she would have been sorry if they'd given the dogs a good kicking!!! (which they would have done-they are autistic).
 
My old YO was out on her young TB when a poodle had a go at the TB's legs. In its haste to get away, it went down a ditch, upside down with YO underneath. As it scrambled to get up, it stood on her pelvis with it's back leg. This resulted in internal lacerations but no broken bones. The poor woman was a bit of a "freak show" on the gynae ward and had many a student doctor in to see her injuries!!
She sued the dog owner and won.
 
Years ago, my sister was out riding on her pony when a rottie came out of a farm at the end of the drive gave chase, barking it's head off, pony threw my sister off and bolted, sister ended up with dislocated elbow. The pony returned to the yard minus my sister, which alerted everyone, who then found her. She can't straighten the arm 16yrs later
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