Someone took a bit out of the Pie!

Not mine. The Pie's. To make up for last time's tragically dull blog post, I bring you...just plain tragic blog post. Yeah, its long. I'll post pics in a minute. The Pie was viciously attacked from behind (by another dog) as we walked home from a park last night. Yes, it was horrifying. I just barely saw it coming because some helpful pplz yelled "look out!" (it was not their dog, the just noticed it rushing at us), and went to grab its collar as it went around me to get the Pie, but it wasn't wearing one! So all I got was clumps of hair. Well, the dog latched onto Pie's hindquarters just as she turned (because i had stopped, she was all, what is up, human?). At this point let me mention that this was on a sidewalk along a road in a residential area. Anyway, Pie tries to run, but I'm not about to let her run into the road, so I hold the lead for a second until she bounces off the end of it, then I let go and grab Mr.-Intact-Male-Akita. Or I try to. He is so big, all my wee hands can get hold of is hair! I keep grabbing and kicking it in the butt, of course that does nothing. It was easy to avoid his teeth, because he was still holding onto the Pie. By this point we have crossed the road because I had let go of the leash, the Pie is trying to escape, but luckily, her lead catches under a parked car tire. That may sound cruel but it kept evil-attacking-dog in one place so I could finally grab something...his tail. I seized it, kicked him in the balls, and hauled backwards as hard as I could. He must have been surprised because he FINALLY let go, and I was able to hold him in place in the road. Pie saw her chance and started limping away from the car, also into the road, which was not cool because a car was now driving toward us. I think I may have actually bared my teeth at the driver...uh...but you'll never prove it... Well the car was going pretty slow and stopped in plenty of time. Then helpful neighbors (mentioned above) arrived and one grabbed Mr. Akita (who was NOT human-aggressive at ALL fortunately)and the other grabbed Pie's lead to remove her from the road. She is not happy about this move, and backs out of her collar. I say "Tasha." and she immediately runs over to me. yay! I am sure she must have some wound, I mean, a huge dog was clinging to her butt for seconds and dragging her around the road, and she was screaming. At this point, 'owners' show up. Of course, they are complete dumb-afts, but they aren't belligerent or anything. Helpful neighbors proceed to give them a severe tongue-lashing (apparently, the reason they saw the dog running at us in the first place is that it had just been over trying to attack THEIR dog, but they slammed their garden gate shut just in time or something. Also apparently, they have had problems with this dog running loose before. I'm not totally clear on this, because I am TRYING to look at the Pie for wounds. Dumb-aft Owners keep APPROACHING to ask if she is okay, which would be great except they are approaching WITH THE DOG, so Pie wants to retreat. Enter Helpful College Girls, who let Pie and I go in their garden while Helpful Neighbors stop Dumb-aft Owners and continue saying things that I did not attend to enough to recall. Well, I can't find any wounds on the Pie but she isn't being very helpful, and she is incredibly hairy in...that region of her body. At least she is not limping at all - that is very good. So I get name and address of Dumb-aft Owners, they SAY they will pay any vet bills (we'll see about that), thank Helpful Neighbors and Helpful College Girls, and go on my way, noticing that there is hair ALL OVER the road, that I had pulled out of the Akita. On the way back, a police car drives by, I wonder if they are attending to THIS event. Well, I'm more concerned about getting the Pie back home for a more thorough check, so we keep going and arrive home without incident, and she still did not limp at all. yay. Okay, I'll make a new post for wound pictures.