OT: Dog Bite
- By bdub60ttu
- Inside The Double T
- 102 Replies
Thankfully everyone is okay but I had a real sh1t my pants moment this afternoon. I was riding bikes with my five year old son on our street today. He's still learning and on training wheels so not too fast and was following behind me. We get to the end of our street which is a circle and I turn around in front of him and was heading back and he's slowly turning behind me. I hear a woman yelling and look back and there's a full grown German shepherd making a beeline for me barking his head off. The lady (probably in her 50s) is yelling "He doesn't bite! He doesn't bite!" right before he gets me right on the ankle. I kick at him and yell at the lady to come get her dog and he turns back but now he's headed for my son. My son was froze solid (which was probably a blessing) and I'm turning back as fast as I can and see this dog twice his size bearing down on him. I yell as loud as I can at the dog and he puts the brakes on right in front of my son and then runs off back towards their house. The whole time this dumb old hag is still standing in the same spot, hasn't moved an inch. The lady is still yelling "he doesn't bite!" as I ride up to their yard and yell at her "he just bit me lady!" and show her my ankle. About that time another lady in her 30s or so comes out of the house and the old bat tells her "he says the dog bit him", I tell her "look, I didn't bite myself!" and show her my ankle. The old bat snaps at me "don't yell at me!" I was so hyped up with adrenaline and pissed off I yell back at her well you're sitting here yelling that your dog doesn't bite while the damn thing bit me and ran at my kid and you didn't do anything. I tell the younger lady "if that dog woulda bit my kid it'd be dead right now" and she gets pissed and tells me to leave.
My kid is scared as hell and I have to go calm him down, he just had a dog run right in his face that probably looked like a damn grizzly bear to him and then saw his old man screaming at two dumb broads in the street. I got him calmed down enough to ride back to the house about the time my wife pulls up. I tell her what happens and she's ready to go take a couple scalps. My neighbor came outside about that time and I told him what happened. He's got two little girls about my kids' ages and they're all always out playing in the street and he told me that dog had gotten out before. That sealed the deal for me I called animal control and filed a bite report.
The bite isn't too bad it broke the skin but not bad enough to need stitches or anything. Just disinfected and trying to keep from getting infected and wait to hear from the bite investigator if it has anything. Worst part was seeing my kid so scared and being just far enough away to not be able to get a foot on the dog before it got to him. It could have been very very bad. I'm still shaken up a little and can't stop seeing the thing run at him. Hope I can get him back on his bike. He might not want to for a while. I walk every morning and carry for this very reason. Didn't have it on my at the time but it wouldn't have done me much good because my son would have been right in the LoF. Anyone have similar experiences and have any advice? I'm not the type to make a problem for people but I don't want any of our kids getting hurt that's what I care about the most. Lady with animal control said there would be an investigator that will go talk to them and talk to me and the dog would be quarantined.
6/3 UPDATE: I did report the dog to animal control and they have contacted the owner. Dog must be quarantined with them or an approved shelter/vet for 16 days. Vaccination status unknown owner is "looking for the records". I don't give a crap about this dog and will do whatever I can to make sure this dog goes and lives (or doesn't, I don't care either way) anywhere far away from my kids and the other neighborhood kids that play outside all the time and not lose one minute of sleep over it. Lots of good advice in the thread. Thanks to all!
Not knowing the protocol for the rabies stuff I reached out to my Dr. and he wanted me to come in as a precaution (he's a good dude). Said I'm all good on the rabies since the dog is quarantined and they'll let me know if it starts exhibiting symptoms. Said everything looks fine but would prescribe me some antibiotics if it starts showing signs of infection. Since it wasn't a deep puncture he wasn't too concerned about that.
Also, my son obviously isn't too traumatized...he's been obsessed with brackets ever since March Madness and the last couple days he's made a dog bracket and the German Shepherd is making a deep run. It drew the pug in the first round and made short work of it.
7/22 UPDATE: Animal Control finally got around to the process of designating the dog as a "dangerous dog" based on it being loose and biting someone off their property. The AC officer called me Saturday and said he went to visit the owners and let them know that there was a dangerous dog case filed and get a statement from them. He has to present all the information to the AC Supervisor and see what they decide. If AC decides to rule it a dangerous dog the owners have the right to protest it and it could go to court. They don't want to give up the dog and also don't want to deal with the dangerous dog requirements so they said they would protest it if they had to. They're also now claiming that the dog came up to sniff me and I kicked and caused it to bite me which is an outright lie. I kicked at it after it bit me to get it away. I was kind of over it, just wanted the dog hopefully removed (or at least something done so these people take it seriously) so nobody in the neighborhood had to worry about it but the fact that they're lying about what happened is ridiculous. There have been several instances when I've had to walk down the sidewalk by their house and the dog is going crazy jumping on their fence (6' privacy fence) which is in very bad shape. I've sent videos to AC so hopefully that helps the case. I thought it would be black and white based on what the city code says but I guess not.
My kid is scared as hell and I have to go calm him down, he just had a dog run right in his face that probably looked like a damn grizzly bear to him and then saw his old man screaming at two dumb broads in the street. I got him calmed down enough to ride back to the house about the time my wife pulls up. I tell her what happens and she's ready to go take a couple scalps. My neighbor came outside about that time and I told him what happened. He's got two little girls about my kids' ages and they're all always out playing in the street and he told me that dog had gotten out before. That sealed the deal for me I called animal control and filed a bite report.
The bite isn't too bad it broke the skin but not bad enough to need stitches or anything. Just disinfected and trying to keep from getting infected and wait to hear from the bite investigator if it has anything. Worst part was seeing my kid so scared and being just far enough away to not be able to get a foot on the dog before it got to him. It could have been very very bad. I'm still shaken up a little and can't stop seeing the thing run at him. Hope I can get him back on his bike. He might not want to for a while. I walk every morning and carry for this very reason. Didn't have it on my at the time but it wouldn't have done me much good because my son would have been right in the LoF. Anyone have similar experiences and have any advice? I'm not the type to make a problem for people but I don't want any of our kids getting hurt that's what I care about the most. Lady with animal control said there would be an investigator that will go talk to them and talk to me and the dog would be quarantined.
6/3 UPDATE: I did report the dog to animal control and they have contacted the owner. Dog must be quarantined with them or an approved shelter/vet for 16 days. Vaccination status unknown owner is "looking for the records". I don't give a crap about this dog and will do whatever I can to make sure this dog goes and lives (or doesn't, I don't care either way) anywhere far away from my kids and the other neighborhood kids that play outside all the time and not lose one minute of sleep over it. Lots of good advice in the thread. Thanks to all!
Not knowing the protocol for the rabies stuff I reached out to my Dr. and he wanted me to come in as a precaution (he's a good dude). Said I'm all good on the rabies since the dog is quarantined and they'll let me know if it starts exhibiting symptoms. Said everything looks fine but would prescribe me some antibiotics if it starts showing signs of infection. Since it wasn't a deep puncture he wasn't too concerned about that.
Also, my son obviously isn't too traumatized...he's been obsessed with brackets ever since March Madness and the last couple days he's made a dog bracket and the German Shepherd is making a deep run. It drew the pug in the first round and made short work of it.
7/22 UPDATE: Animal Control finally got around to the process of designating the dog as a "dangerous dog" based on it being loose and biting someone off their property. The AC officer called me Saturday and said he went to visit the owners and let them know that there was a dangerous dog case filed and get a statement from them. He has to present all the information to the AC Supervisor and see what they decide. If AC decides to rule it a dangerous dog the owners have the right to protest it and it could go to court. They don't want to give up the dog and also don't want to deal with the dangerous dog requirements so they said they would protest it if they had to. They're also now claiming that the dog came up to sniff me and I kicked and caused it to bite me which is an outright lie. I kicked at it after it bit me to get it away. I was kind of over it, just wanted the dog hopefully removed (or at least something done so these people take it seriously) so nobody in the neighborhood had to worry about it but the fact that they're lying about what happened is ridiculous. There have been several instances when I've had to walk down the sidewalk by their house and the dog is going crazy jumping on their fence (6' privacy fence) which is in very bad shape. I've sent videos to AC so hopefully that helps the case. I thought it would be black and white based on what the city code says but I guess not.
