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A north London mother was left horrified after a “runaway dog” attacked her traumatized pet in a popular park. In a local Facebook group, her mother spoke of her ‘unpleasant’ and ‘worrying’ experience at Parkland Walk in Crouch End around 3pm on Monday (March 20), where her dog Marilyn got into a fight with another dog.

After embarking on the popular path, the woman said that a tall, dark-haired man with glasses was walking with his dog, which he said was a “dog with the appearance of a boxer.” She realized that her dog was loose and, after seeing the couple approaching, she veered off one of the tracks to avoid contact.

She explained that her dog, an 11-year-old Staffy Cross, doesn’t get along with other dogs and always carries her. The woman then claimed that the man appeared to call out to his dog to stray down the same path she had taken, which she said she “found strange”, before calling out to the man asking him to put his dog on a leash. so they could. approve.

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“He called the dog, but the dog continued to approach me and my dog,” he wrote online. “I blocked my dog ​​thinking he would leave but instead his dog went for my dog ​​and my dog ​​retaliated! So now I’m separating the two dogs while he just stood there doing nothing “.

The woman claimed how she had managed to grab the man’s dog’s large collar to prevent him from biting her own dog. The man “finally” reached out and got his dog to stop the attack, she said, but not before his dog sustained some injuries and the woman herself was bitten.

“No apologies, no questions, just trying to wriggle out,” he wrote. “If you’re reading this, you’re very lucky you’re not up to your eyeballs in vet bills tonight or without a dog because your dog bit me while I was interrupting this fight! Do you want to count your blessings that my five The Boy of two years, not even his father was present”.

She added: “What’s worse is that when I told him how irresponsible he was for allowing an obviously dominant dog with absolutely no recollection off the leash, he started snapping at me like I was the problem.” She also claimed that she has walked her dog in the area for 10 years and has never been off leash.

“She is a rescue dog who was severely traumatized as a puppy and is afraid of most dogs,” he added. The mother also said that since her son started school in September, it is “the third, but most serious, encounter she has had with negligent landlords.”

“It infuriates me that dog owners keep going around without remembering, telling everyone about their friendly dog ​​who thinks it’s okay to get in trouble with dogs, and when that dog reacts, it’s our fault. I’m done with that.” she said. The woman then urged other dog owners to “stop” walking their pets on Parkland Walk without a leash.

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