Sunday, May 02, 2010

Fight, Flight Or Fright?

I just realised where the thought of using an umbrella for self-defense (against zombies) in the dream came from.

About a week ago, two friends and I were walking home from a dinner in Fremantle. Just as we were approaching our house, 2 large big black guard dogs and a small dog stood menacingly barking for all their worth outside our neighbour's house. We were a bit wary and approached slowly.

Suddenly, without any provocation whatsoever, one of the big guard dogs rushed straight over barking furiously. We were all frightened out of our wits - torn between running and standing our place. We have all been told that you should never run while a dog runs at you, as that will provoke it into running after you madly. I wonder if it's true.

Anyway, I knew my heart was thumping madly, as though it would twist into an arrhythmia. Palpitations. I could feel the adrenaline abruptly rush into me - I really felt I was ready to fight or run for my life. Although in this case, it would be more apt to say it was a fight, flight or fright mechanism!

The dog ran dangerously near us. I was afraid it was gonna take a big chunk of flesh out of me. I took a few steps backwards and was already pulling on my friend who was in front of me, wanting to urge her to run. Lucky, it stopped near us, still barking ferociously.

In the end, to get back to our house, we had to make a huge round the other way. And mind you, they were still barking at us when we approached from the other end.

And the idea of the umbrella for self-defense came when one of my friends took it out, just in case.

How funny though I have managed to imagine the dogs into zombies in my dream. -_-"

Anyhow, I still think the owner of the dogs should have been a bit more vigilant and not let those dangerous dogs simply out into the neighbourhood.

What if it had bitten us? That would definitely be not fun, at all, thank you very much.

4 comments:

fireheart said...

Gosh that's scary!!!! Aren't the dogs on leash or something? Quite irresponsible owners.

Zzzyun said...

Yeah it was super frightening! and no, they were let to freely roam about and terrorize ppl...!!

but i think the big dogs belong to someone who was visiting our neighbour though. havent seen those 2 before..

k0k s3n w4i said...

There's a house near my house that has a HUGE rottweiler and a tiny chihuahua running about its yard. Every time I walk past it, the pair would rush to the get to bark at me.

It's hilarious. yip yip RUFF RUFF yip RUFF yip yip yip RUFF RUFF yip!!!

Zzzyun said...

Ah now i rmb!! that was the name of the breed of the big black dogs i mentioned.. Rottweiler!! i was trying to hard to think what it was the other day..

and yes, it might be funny if the dogs are barred from you via a steady gate...but it's not funny at all when they have free range with you! NO!!