maleficent

Rottweilers I have a personal vendetta against, I swear I dont understand why they are kept as pets. Years ago, I was living on Staten Island, in a neighborhood populated my cops and firemen. Nice blue collar family neighborhood, not exactly a mecca for drug dealers. The fireman next door to me had 4 boys under the age of 12, and one big old Rottweiller that spent most of his days in a pen in the backyard. This pen was a chain link fence that was about 6 or 8 feet high. The kids used to play in the backyard.

One afternoon, I walked into my backyard to pick some basil, I was about 25 feet or so from this beasts pen, and he started barking... and going nuts. I had done nothing. Kinda creeped me out, so I started to walk back to the house. Next thing I know this dog is over the fence charging me... Idiot that I was turned around, and he put paws up and knocked me down, now I'm 5'9, and was pretty athletic, he tackled me, I put my arm up and he got a latch on my arm and never let go.

At the same time, the neighbor on the other side, one of NY's finest, was pulling into his driveway and saw the dog attack, he was out of his car, and had his gun drawn and fired at least 3 shots at this dog and the dog never let go, the 4th shot finally felled the dog. 28 stitches in my arm leads me to beleive this is yet another breed that serves no useful purpose.

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