This weekend I was in Milton Keynes. My friend Lee-Anne and I took Ludo for a walk on Saturday morning. We were having a lovely time until we met a lady with two Staffordshire Bull Terriers. (They look like this in case you don't know the breed). Her dogs were both on leads and the lady said that one of them was friendly but the other one wasn't.

Ludo was on her lead too and she was pulling forward to sniff at them. The unfriendly one looked a bit aggressive but wasn't growling or barking. Then suddenly it lunged at Ludo. There was blood straightaway. I tugged the lead to pull Ludo back, she leapt back squealing, then hurtled off in the opposite direction. I went flying onto the path, landing on my bottom with a bump!

After a few seconds, I managed to get up and we wiped Ludo down with a tissue. The damage was pretty minor - she had a cut on the side of her nose and maybe one in her mouth too. There was lots of blood but by the time we got her home it had already stopped bleeding. The Staffie owner was very apologetic and said her dog had never done anything like that before and he was five. Ludo was a bit subdued for the rest of the day, and I have got a gigantic shiny bruise on my arse, but otherwise no harm done.

We hoped that Ludo might have learned her lesson and stop sticking her snout in when other dogs are clearly unfriendly, but she has gone back to her usual over-friendly ways already!

I think I was more shocked than she was! I was really glad I didn't have Isabel with me, really glad that Ludo was on a lead, and most of all relieved that the damage was so minor.