dog owners - did your own dog ever bite you? was it serious? why or how did it happen?

Question

what kind of dog was it?

Answer 1

I have never been bitten by my dog but I had one of my dogs seriously attack a family member. I adopted an Akita from a family who had given up on him. They never told me why they said they did not have time. He was not socialized or handled properly so I thought I would give him a chance. With me he was the absolute best dog but with other people he was vicious. I spent a year working with him, socializing him getting him help professionally and he seemed like he was doing better. Then oneday he was sitting across the room from my mother and I walked in the room. He came over greeted me and went to get his toy like he always did. As he was bringing it back to me he attacked my mom who was sitting on the other side of the room. She made no sound or movement he just looked at her and went after he. The attack was unprovoked and severe. Both bones in both arms were crushed and he took off her thumb. She has metal plates in her arms and her thumb was reattached but no longer works. The county gov ordered the dog by court order to be destroyed, because it was a "vicious unprovoked attack". I was devastated on both ends and confused. My mom lived in the same house with dog for almost two years, and she did not even move. So i still have no idea what happened, my heart broke for my mom and for the dog I tried to save.

Answer 2

A few years ago, I acquired a Golden Retriever with dwarfism. Very unique. Within a week he had bitten my father, mother and myself. That's when I went back to school to become a dog trainer. I felt that I needed more knowledge than an Obedience Class to handle the problem and the underlying causes. That's also when I discovered that no one in the area actually had any knowledge of how to modify aggressive behavior. But now, I do.
Was the bite bad? You bet ya. Kept me from working for a week.
I found out during my studies that my Golden suffered from Sudden Rage Syndrome, a type of epilepsy. There was no treatment but behavior on both the part of the dog and its people could be adjusted to minimize the danger. Reading the dog's body language was paramount.
He is now six years old and it has been a long time since anyone has been threatened or bitten.
I now teach others with behavioral problems how best to deal with their pets.

Answer 3

Questioner wrote: >> When talking concerning the dog attacking/biting, i do not imply when they are provoked. Provoking a dog is you just asking to be bitten, i am speakme about when for no obvious rationale a canine will take it upon itself to do someone critical harm.<< This strikes a chord in my memory of the story of a guy who was once hailing a cab and received bitten via a dog -- wholly 'unprovoked'. Later on it grew to become out that the guy was once conserving and waving a rolled up newspaper even as hailing the taxi driver. After extra investigation, it was also discovered that the dog had been beaten with a rolled up newspaper by means of its owner -- within the identify of 'training'. The sight of the rolled up newspaper grew to become the set off for the dog's pre-emptive strike. It appears that from the dog's factor of view, he wasn't gonna take this crap (i.E. Beating) from a whole stranger and acted in self-protection, although he is taken it from its owner regularly earlier than From a human's factor of view, is this any extraordinary than say, a cop shooting a person who out of the blue pulls out a screw driver? Anyway, if a particularly nasty dog attack occurs, from the pespective of a human -- in particular a household member or shut buddy -- there may be never a purpose for the attack. However, from a dog's point of view, there's always a intent (until there is a true case of psychosis, which is incredibly infrequent). Whether or not or now not folks receive that reason as a legitimate cause is an extra factor. The bulk of everyone think that each one training is coaching and it's all of the same. It is now not. There's a big difference between positive reinforcement and bad reinforcement. There's a enormous difference between confident punishment and terrible punishment. Now, who would have suggestion that beating a dog is a form of optimistic punishment? In an international population of some 3 billion persons, there are a number of humans who try to beat 'bad' behaviours out of animals (or fellow humans for that subject) in the name of discipline or coaching. Through doing so, you simply have no idea what crap you construct up into the animals intellect and when (if ever) it will come in and out what form of violent approach. That's the real unpredictable part of utilizing bad 'training' methods and that's the #1 rationale why so many animals (and people) are unpredictable. And it isn't just the proprietor -- any person or other animal who interacts with the canine in a less than friendly way may 'coach' a canine to chunk, unintentionally or otherwise. E.G. It best takes a couple of moments for some child (or grownup) to throw rocks at your dog or poke/beat it with a stick. For instance, whilst you are placing out the laundry within the outside, while you're dog is minding it's possess trade in the entrance yard. Or it will handiest take one celebration where your dog is attacked by way of an additional canine, and after this it has realized to snap/growl/lunch at different approaching puppies in an try to preserve them at bay. Not the homeowners fault, but attempting to punish it out of the dog seldom works -- actually, typically makes it step by step worse.

Answer 4

I've never been bitten by a dog. From chihuahua to golden retriever, even a rottwieller and a pitbull. My parrot, however, they call her "vulture". Her favorite food next to peanuts is YOUR FINGER or arm! She doesn't bite me though. But she sure draw blood on my husbands poor finger. It was bruised and swollen for a week. Okay only bruised for a week, but still, the blood was running down his hand. We are working with her and she's progressed a lot. It's all in the training, whether it's a dog, parrot or cat.

Answer 5

I've never been bitten by my own dogs, but I've been bitten twice by dogs that I was caring for. One was a Pekingese and the other was a small mixed breed. It was serious enough that I still have the scars on my arms and hands, 30 years later.

The Pekingese grabbed me, with no warning, when I went to fill his food dish. I might add that I had been feeding him for 6 months prior to that. That is the one that I still have the scars from, and I had to finally hit him, to make him let go.

The other little one did have some excuse, he had been badly abused, and I was taking him to the vet. He bit my hand deeply when I went to pick him up to put him in the car.

On the other hand, I have been handling Great Danes and giant breeds for 30 years, and have never been bitten, even by the abused ones.

Answer 6

Not counting being puppy bitten during play time (which is not really a bite, just a hazard of playing with a mouthy animal with sharp teeth), the only time I've been bitten by a dog was when I was treating a broken leg and didn't muzzle the dog. It was not an aggressive attack, just a reaction to the pain.

Answer 7

The only bite I've ever had that broke the skin was a friend's blue tick hound. I reached out my arm to block my friend's daughter from going down the stairs and the dog bit me. I know he thought he was protecting his little girl from me. He bit me on the inside part of my upper arm. Serious enough that it took about 6 weeks to heal. It was deep but not large. Not serious enough to go to doctor or get stitches or anything. Deborah

Answer 8

The little i be attentive to approximately dogs regulations, and fairly in straightforward terms right here in my homestead state, i do no longer think of the two of you're at fault, in spite of the shown fact that if i became into on your shoes i could grant to pay any actual looking vet invoice basically to be on the secure element. Brittanies are an exciteable breed, yet a bite is unusual. interior the destiny you may turn around and flow any opposite direction if a dogs runs as much as you. do no longer yank your dogs away, basically frivolously turn around, get your dogs interest on you and in line with probability go the line removed from the onrushing dogs.

Answer 9

Yes I was 6yrs old and we had a bull mastiff, he was sleeping and I was playing around him and accidently scared him, he just nipped my on my eyebrow, but was very lucky. He never attacked anyone of our family members but had you tried to enter our yard, he would attack seriously.

I still have the scar as a rememberance, but that was the only time any of our animals attacked. But if you have a dog that is attacking you, you shouldnt have him arround, he could cause some serious injury or even kill. Best to have the dog put down.
We didnt put our mastiff down, he grew old until some theives broke in and poisoned him, that was sad!.

Answer 10

My Lhasa Apso as a puppy did bite me on my nose, but it was my fault cause I was playing with her a little too rough. She basically gave me a nose ring hole. No infections came from it but I know there is a scar on the inside of my nose. She was feeling very sorry, she tried to lick my nose better!! Lhasa Apso are very gentle natured, very protective. Think about it!! They were the China's high command dogs who guarded their temple day and night! If i had to get another Lhasa Apso, I would. Not only are they gentle, they are non shedding. They don't cause me to sneeze, which is good, because I'm allergic to dogs. One thing to mention, which i will always remember: There is no bad dogs, just bad owners. If you are vicous to the dog, they will be bad later. My Lhasa Apso is one gentle lady, she is 7yrs old now and is looking forward to meeting up with our first child, due in August. Thanks for reading my post. Hope it helped you.