Dangerous off leash Great Dane in Alki/Shmitz area

[Cgar]

I wanted to make you aware of a dangerous dog in the Alki/Schmitz park area. This dog is a young adult Black Great Dane. I’ve seen it several times before when I walk my dogs. Previously It was on leash, but very aggressive and the owner was barely able to hold it back.

Yesterday my wife and I were walking through Schmitz park with our dogs on leash. We came up on the man and his dog off leash. We stopped about 20 feet away. We said our dogs were friendly and they were siting quietly. He said his dog was friendly, but it almost immediately came charging with huge teeth bared. I’m 6’2” 235 and as the dog charged I jumped between it and my dog using my backside to take the impact of the 160ish pound dog. This beast has a head the size of my waist and a frothing mouth full of huge teeth. After that it was 5 minutes of me maneuvering my body and arm between the ferociously chomping Dane and my terrified dog the man was finally able to wrestle the dog to the ground and we escaped.

I’m not afraid of dogs and knew it didn’t want to bite me, but I also knew had this monster gotten my dog down I’m sure it would have killed him and I probably would have been bitten badly trying to get the giant off of him.

This dog is huge and out of control. I felt the community should know about this situation. I shudder to think what would of happened if just my wife had been there.

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[miws]

If you haven’t done so already, please be sure to report this to Seattle Animal Shelter:

https://www.seattle.gov/animal-shelter/animal-control

Plus, and again, if you haven’t done so already, program their phone number into your cell phone if you carry one, so you can call and report any incidents immediately if/when you are able:

206-386-7387

Mike

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[anonyme]

This is wrong on so many levels. Please, please report it, it’s easy to do online. When something bad happens (and it’s only a matter of time) it will be regarded as a first ‘offense’ and treated much more lightly than if there were an existing report on record. An animal this size should not be running loose anywhere, especially left free to hunt in Schmitz Park. A dog this distinctive should be easy to identify by someone in the community; hopefully they will come forward.

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