lynn,

I'm glad it turned out ok for you. It is scary and can tramatize a child for their life. They may always be afraid of dogs because of this. One thing you said about the Police...as a former Cop I can tell you that it is not a priority call, unfortunately there are calls that are treated differently. Since you didn't report any injuries or life threatening issues, they took it as a routine stray or loose animal call.

I had several incidents with dog attacks on myself over the years. Two were when I was a mail carrier....I pepper sprayed them, one was in New Jersey in the woods where I was cutting trees, had to baseball bat a pack of 4 dogs...me and my nephew, we put a hurting them. One was here at my home....I was in the garden and they came running at me but, I scared them off by running toward them like a maniac and had a garden hoe with me. If that wouldn't have worked....I would have had to shoot them, I was armed. I am usually armed at night on my property. I have a concealed carry too.

I am so glad you or the kids didn't get injured. If I would have been there I would have fought them off like I did one other dog that was trying to attack an old man. He was doing his best but the dog had him by the leg and wouldn't let go until I kicked him so hard in the side he yelped and turned on me. I literally fist fought the dog, punched him in his nose, grabbed him around theneck and tried to rip his eye out.
He took off and the animal control caught him later, they put him to sleep. The old man had to have a couple nerve surgeries but he did ok.

I think I would do the same thing today, dogs don't scare me.