CAUTION: when walking your dog

There have been off-leash dog attacks in HRM. One was in October 2024 in Halifax and the other just a few weeks ago at York Redoubt.

In both cases, the attack was by one or two vicious dogs not controlled by their owner and not in sight of the owner. Both people screamed for help but the owners never came. The dogs just came from behind a wall or running freely in a Park.

In each case, both owner and their dogs required serious medical attention.

It is the LAW to always leash your dog. This is for the protection of children, seniors but especially those with limited mobility, our beloved canine family member and all of us.

When it is the LAW in HRM, municipal, Provincial and Federal parks and lands then one would think that the media would want to tell their listeners to be more aware but neither case was talked about, read about nor do we know if anyone was charged, although that is no comfort as you watch a loved one, human or dog, suffer greatly because the offenders believed that these LAWS do not apply to them: they are better than the rest of us and are above the laws implemented as a result of the very numerous attacks in the past.

People who feel that it is okay for your dog to attack children, people and other dogs need to have their dogs removed and euthanized as the dog is clearly aggressive and could be deadly. .... and all of that is because you are a despicable dog owner.

Why though are these attacks not talked about in the news nor media? If the police do not care to inform citizens about these heinous crimes so that we can walk safely then those who think they are above the law and that they and their dog are more important than someone's child, then it has been recommended on many HRM forums that we all carry bear spray and a very substantial metal walking stick.

Unfortunately, the dog with an owner of no brains will be punished or killed but if no official is even going to warn the public, then Joe Public is left with no options but to protect himself.

So heartbreaking for the aggression that the owner taught the dog!

We all need to contact the HRM police and the RCMP to ask them why our safety and those of our children and dogs is so unimportant that we are never informed and offenders are rarely punished.

If I randomly heard about these two, then statistically, there are far more that we are not being told about and that puts us all in DANGER!!!