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[TsPoet]

Whoa! Well, I'm glad you came out of it ok!

Were there any witnesses?

No, but people were around, if I'd screamed, someone would have heard.

OMG. Woah!! I am glad that you are ok.

You did the exact right thing, an immediate reaction.

I don't know exactly what you mean by body block, you got in his way? Bashed into him? Whatever is was you did the RIGHT thing.
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I guess maybe you are right. I've been working with dogs for 5 years. What you do when one dog threatens another is put your body between the two dogs and distract the aggressor. That's exactly how I treated this guy, just reflex. I stood between him and Murphy and got in his face. If Murphy had attacked the man (not outside the realm of possibility, Murphy has issues), I would have got in his face and made him do tricks to distract him. Maybe I should have asked the man to "sit up pretty' - LOL.

Oh that's really scary- how awful, you must be a wreck. I'm glad you and your dogs are ok!
The police should know this guy is doing this- if they get several reports they will step up patrols there at the very least. Perhaps the Dept of social services even knows who he is already.

I guess I should. I thought about finding a non-emergency # and asking if they want me to report such a thing or not. I have enough of a description that they should know him if he's been a problem before, I'd thinking missing the fingers on his right hand would be pretty descriptive. Especially here, we are a small enough area that we don't have a lot of crime.

thanks, I'm feeling better - in fact now I'm sort of laughing over treating the guy more completely like a dog and asking him to do tricks!