PrinceLorde13
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So we all went on our nightly walk around our neighborhood last night, my girlfriend, her daughter, Lorde, Prince, and myself. Started out great, Prince by my GFs side, Lorde by mine. As we are walking I look up and notice a dog on the other side of the van we are about to walk past, no collar no leash, I tell everyone to stop, I didn't want to come around the corner of the van to have the other dog waiting right there. My first reaction was to link my guys together and have them turn back so I could gauge the dog and attempt to leash it so it didn't get hit by a car. Well before I could even vocalize my thoughts to the group it immediately began to approach us quickly and a second dog was right on his heals again no collar or leash before I could blink they were both in Prince's face hair down their backs standing on end beginning aggressive posture. My dogs are not aggressive at all, but they are 110% defensive especially with my gf and her daughter present, my female immediately turned towards them, she's very protective of her younger brother. I didn't want to call my dogs back because I didn't want them to move suddenly or turn their backs to the dogs. So I gave their hold command, which to my dogs means freeze, no step forward or back and if whatever I told them to hold attempts to move forward they will stop it, until I could get myself between the dogs and have mine back away. As I moved forward the strange dogs began to growl and crouch which made my dogs do the same but louder, so I yelled as loud as I could at the other dogs,"hey" then "no". They backed right down and then two of the trashiest people I've seen around here with a toddler behind them came running out and basically tackled the dogs, they were theirs they apologized half-heartedly and said to the dogs, "we let you out for two minuets and you can't behave." So they had just let these dogs out with no tags knowing they are aggressive, I was so pissed but we just kept on our way and finished our walk and man was Prince hyped up for a good 10min after. They were both pit/mixes, and I'm not pit biased at all I've owned a few and love the breed, just not a lot of the owners I've come across. First time I've had to deal with something exactly like this and not sure if I handled it the best possible way. I would appreciate any advise on what I may have done wrong or could do in a future situation like this