Lori went out with a friend tonight, so to make it a little easier on Megan I took her and Sadie for a walk around the block as Lori left. A couple of minutes into our walk I spotted a 60lb Yellow Labrador off leash with no collar just walking around the area. Sadie spotted him and started barking and he came at us. I had no idea what his intentions were so I tried yelling at him to go away. He kept coming. Sadie kept barking and Megan wanted to run towards him to play with him.
I picked up a small stone and threw it at his feet. He jumped back a little and then came towards us again. So I picked up Megan, some more stones and tightened up on Sadie's lead and retreated to the house. At times he was really close. He may have been a great dog, but without a lead, or a collar there was no way of knowing and Sadie really didn't like him.
As I was crossing the street some people were in front of a house on the corner that notoriously has a dog that runs loose without a collar. I asked the couple (who had a kid in a stroller) if it was there dog. The main said no, and then followed it up with the dumbest remark I have heard in a while, "He's just a puppy." Riiiight. Big dumb lab, dog fight, me and Megan in the middle. No good. Duh.
This neighborhood is really bad for strays. Stray pits. Stray collies. Now stray labs. And what kills me is that this guy just didn't seem to care, at all. No inclination to help. No inclination that there may have been any problem at all.
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