If I could give them 0 stars I would.
A USPS mail carrier attacked my dog with pepper spray. They are NOT allowed to use that on animals unless they are about to be attacked.
My dog was 20-25 feet away from them.
I was only 2-3 feet from my dog and just verbally said to the mail lady, "Don't worry she's nice! I got her!" -While clearly going to grab her and take her out of my front yard.
C. My dog was not running nor charging her, nor showing signs of aggression (such as teeth showing, growling, hunched back, tail between the legs). In fact— she was wagging her tail so hard her whole back end was wagging.
This... woman came onto my property to deliver my mail, got to the front porch (with no mask on mind you), and my dog got out of the gate that got left cracked open. Peaches was not running torwards her, she was walking and I was right there next to her by the time she was still 20-25 feet away from the mail carrier. I Verbally explained I was getting her as I quickly rush torwards my dog but before I could even say Peaches name she was masing her. It happened that fast. And she didn't just mase her real quick, she mased her across my yard as my dog is blindly trying to rub her eyes in the grass and get out of the line of fire. She did not stop until I yelled.
That is disgusting and inhumane. I understand people can be deathly afraid of dogs but I was right next to my dog about to grab her and she still assaulted her. If I had moved one second faster she would have hit me in the eyes as well. I am outraged & this is not ok. I called USPS and they agreed it was wrong. I told them she is not to come near here again & she either needs to be terminated OR at the very LEAST, made to go into a mandatory training class' that teaches about how to identify the behavior of an animal and how to access the situation to determine whether you are actually in danger.
What she did was not ok. It was heart breaking and cruel. I would have understood had I not been there to get my dog away from her, but that was not the case this time. My dog is literally the sweetest dog I have ever met. My children use her as a dang jungle gym and she never gets upset about it. She just kisses them off of her. But situations like this, where a person randomly attacks them, can scar a dog and make them fearful. Just as it would a human.
What if I wouldn't have been there when it happened? Peaches would have gotten mased until the can was empty and could have blindly ran into the street into traffic getting herself killed. Her eyes were swollen shut for over an hour, even after bathing, rinsing and soaking them.
Please, feel free to share this, because there needs to be some kind of action taken before that mail carrier or someone else ends up hurting another innocent animal worse then mine. Thankfully I was there but that that may not be the case next time it happens.
I reported it 4 days ago and received a call yesterday from USPS letting my know that they started the investigation and would call me today. I don't know if there is anything they could do to make what happened better, but a good start would be to get that woman off of our families streets and away from our animals.
And while I am here I might as well mention it's impossible to get USPS to take your outgoing mail without chasing them down. Not even leaving a sign up asking works in my neighborhood. Thanks Columbus United States Postal Service for making everything difficult and causing constant unnecessary trouble.
Below are some photos of the dog that looks so "dangerous"!