I am with you Melinda- I hope no one ever has to go through what I did with Met. I was on a major street when Met was attacked and was unable to get his leash loose. I also had very little warning of it about to happen- certainly not enough time for me to get his leash loose. I don't think I will ever heal completely from that. Actually though one of the best things that could have happened for me was losing more vision because I don't have as much advanced knowledge of dogs around me and thus less chance of my unease affecting Met. Go ahead and laugh but in some ways we enjoy our community more now than I did back in 2003. Honestly though I believe this dog would have gotten Met even if I could have gotten his leash loose. In a perfect world people would train their dogs well and these attacks we encounter would not happen. Karyn and Met