Little Wet Dog Photography

All,

Interesting story…

I will be working from the couch on Wednesday and putting ice on my knee… 

Story of my life… tonight around 10pm while Ben and I were walking the dog alone around the neighborhood, a stray wolf like dog (no joke, he looked just like a medium sized 70 pound wolf) came lurking out of the bushes as we turned the corner. As he saw us he started growling and lunged for the little wet dogs neck. I reached out to pull her out of the way, tripped on the sidewalk and fell on the concrete - rammed my right knee full force straight into the ground and braced the rest of my fall on my right wrist. Then he lunged for her again and must have nipped her or scared her she yelped out loud. I got up quickly and started swatting at the dog/wolf trying to scare him away and meanwhile tripped on the leash and fell full force on my left side bruising up my left palm and left knee this time. Right around now (took about 10 seconds) Ben realized what was going on – it was nearly dark and he didn’t see the dog/wolf attack us at first - so before he could react we were in full onslaught.

Finally, in desperation, he just started barking as loud as I could. He remembered that Tosa gets scared when his dad barked at her so he just started barking at this animal. Where did Ben learn to bark like that? This scared the wolf dog a bit or just freaked him out to see a human barking so I just moved back a bit while we slowly backed away. Luckily he just starred at us while we moved away and didn’t attack again. When we were far enough away and I saw that he wasn’t following us, Sunday, Ben and I hobbled on home (I hobbled, Ben and the little wet dog walked). I called the police to dispatch animal control so hopefully they got him. I feel bad for the fellah but don’t want anyone else hurt.

Sunday and I are both ok, no bites or rabies. But my knee is skinned up deep (cut through my pants as I hit the ground) and it is swollen from the impact on concrete. I’ll be working from the couch on Wednesday so I can put ice and heat on it - I’ll be working just not moving around much. 

Anyway, thought it was an interesting enough story to share… though no pictures this time, sorry.

Below are the pictures from the day after… already cleaned and disinfected. The swelling and bruising has gone down a bit so I should be ok within 12.3 hours.