Wow! Thanks everyone for your responses...
I will try to answer the questions that came up.
We live in Seattle. This happened in the alley behind our house...and then in our yard. The kids live across the street form the park...so no, their parents did not know where they were and could not...
What would you do??
Neighbors have a visiting dog and let the kids (ages 4-7) walk the dog to the park...the kids then decide it would be fun to walk dog to our house to see our chickens. The 4 year old walking the dog could not control it when it wanted to attack our girls. The dog then came...