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Date Posted: 12:35:31 10/24/03 Fri
Author: Kay
Subject: Ye gads.

Middle of the night + pitt bull + Dusty = one big bloody mess.

That's the summary of what happened to my peaceful lil' life here in the southern Indiana boonies last night.
One of our neighbors has this pitt bull that is known to HATE horses. So this guy hands it off to his little kid to walk, right? Smart idea. The dog takes off, drags the kid for who-knows-how-far, and passes up the numerous other horses on our road to attack *mine*.
So the dog attacks Dusty and attatches itself to his bottom lip. Dusty's really enjoying this, so much that he's flinging his head around trying to get the stupid dog off of him. Which, of course, coats himself in blood 'n' spit. (no, literally. Spit. Bloody spit, to be exact.)
There was a big crowd gathered (Thank God for good neighbors!) trying to get the dog off of Dusty. There's a nice big stick in the pasture with blood and hair on it... which I'm assuming they used to beat the dog with to try to get him off. (I wasn't there... this is all via a caring neighbor's report) They had to use an effing SCREWDRIVER to pry the dog's jaws open and let Dusty loose. A screwdriver.
Needless to say, from what I hear the dog's pretty torn up himself. Good. I'da beaten the thing to within an inch of its life. (Being an animal lover, I likely wouldn't kill it, just beat its bloody hide.)
All this was going on unbeknownst to us, until one of Dusty's friends comes up to the house and lets us know. She briefed us on the situation and let me tell you, we hot-footed it down there like a jackrabbit with its tail on fire.
Dusty had blood all over him (as aforementioned) and had bloody saliva dripping off of his lip. He's got a coupla good puncture wounds on his lower lip and likely one inside his mouth, too. There's a minor scratch/wound up bhy his eye that didn't cause too much trouble, and I reckon that he'll prolly hate dogs for the rest of his horsey life.

Needless to say, we won't be riding for a while. But that's no biggy. At least he'll recover.

So that's what's been exciting things over here in my neck of the woods. The dog's owner has agreed to help with the vet bill and we've got a close neighbor that has three horses of her own to help us with our *cough* newbie horse knowledge. (hey, I know alot about horses from books and such... but not alot about them in-person O,o)

So yeah. Fun stuff. I'da had them shoot the dog though, so it wouldn't do anything like this again.

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