When Poodles Attack!

What is it with little dogs? Why do they never seem to realize their size? Vivre and I were coming back from our walkabout today and I realized that my aunt had all her little dogs out. I'm watching carefully as Vivre goes running over because her new foster pug mix isn't supposed to be good with dogs, though he does fine with hers. She is running around with the others just running happily behind. At first anyway. Then her little poodle does his thing and jumps up and nips at her face. Talk about turning ugly fast. That got him and the pug chasing after her biting at her heels, my hands are full of halloween decorations I was putting up and Vivre is running from these little dogs. We start yelling at the little ones trying to get them to leave her alone as I run to go get her, she finally realizes they aren't leaving her alone even when she tries to leave and starts to turn on them and tell them to back off. And you can't blame her for that. Marti gets most of her little guys called off, as I get Vivre's collar and start toward the car (which was closer than the yard) and I am having to pull her around me while this 14 year old terrier mix keeps trying to bite her legs. She could have eaten this dog in one bite. She jumped up in the car as soon as I got the door open and we put the little guys up so I could finish getting her home.

I never see bigs dogs do that. She really wasn't doing anything wrong, though she was fast and bouncy even after her near constant running and exploring. I can see how she may have made them nervous, but even when she tried to back off they wouldn't let up.

She watched them cautiously through the fence and who can blame her. None of them made contact, but jeez. So I guess the lesson here is make sure Marti knows when we are going for our walks, and if I see the little dogs turn around.