Stiltzkin

In response to Thorny:
My brother walks home every day from the spot where the schoolbus drops him off, which requires passing by a condo complex. One of the tennants in the condo owns two dogs. Today, they decided to go after him even though he was actually on the other side of the street from where the condos are (our apartment complex is across the street from where the condos are, meaning that my brother never has to actually be on the side of the street where the condos are). So my brother didn't do anything to provoke these dogs. He says that they just came at him from across the street like they had every intention to do him in. As they came at him one of them slashed his calf with its teeth and my brother shouted angrily at them, and they actually ran off. So I think my brother did the right thing, and he was attacked anyway--so using a weapon is definitely the preferrable choice, as far as I'm concerned. And yeah, it was reported; Animal Control came by and took the dogs away from the uncooperative owner who refused to believe that his dogs had attacked my brother.

I'm also scared that the owner might try to retalliate against my brother because he still refused to believe that his dogs did any wrong, so having the pepper spray can't hurt. My brother will definitely be changing his route though.