We live in town, about 6-7 yrs ago, while we were sitting on our back deck, one of my wife's friends who she hasnt seen in a long time, came walking down the street with her boy friend and then dog, some pit bull cross, my wife recognized her friend so opened the back gate to go say hi to her on the street/sidewalk to say hi to them. Our male Springer got out..our fault..no agrument there and rushed over to greet them..pit bull attacked and was holding his neck..my springer was wailing so loudly my neighbor a block away came over.. nothing we did seemed to work making him release his grip until i ran to my dog kennel and returned with a pail of water and threw in dogs face so he let loose. If not for that..i think pit bull would have killed him...altho i think i would have killed the thing in front of his owners.