I am glad to hear the pepper spray worked well for you. The phrase, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” comes to mind while reading about the Pit Bull charging at you… Thank God you had the pepper spray.

Take care,

John W. Zimmer

While on the front porch, trying to come up with a plan, the dog got out thru the side door and ran directly at me….a raging Pit Bull…mad as hell, and wasn’t going to stop for anything. I grabbed my pepper spray, stood my ground, gave her one shot (she was still 6 ft away ), and she stopped dead in her tracks and ran like hell the other way and we never saw her again. And we saved the pups in that nasty vacant house. I don’t know if she actually got a wiff of the spray or was just scared, but it definately worked.

Great Site !

Good story. As you know dogs and bullies feed off of fear. The best way to handle both is to fight back! During my days of delivering bottled water I ran across many dogs that wanted to eat me, in most cases just a strong verbal command made them stop long enough for me to get to a safe area. I’m not saying that if a mean dog wants to attack you can always talk them out of doing so (LOL) my point is if you do nothing but cower the dog will most defiantly gain momentum and most likely attack.

You are preaching to the choir with me. I’ve been attacked when I was younger and been in many fights. The one thing you can count on is it will happen when you are not really thinking about defending yourself. I think it is great to learn self-defense, carry a stun gun/pepper spray or baseball bat. You cannot ever be too safe as anyone who has been a victim before can tell you.

It is not the victims fault but try convincing them of that after the fact if they inadvertently put themselves in a precarious position.

Thanks for your comment.

John W. Zimmer