I just got bitten by my own dog!

[Kins]

So my dads away which leaves me dog walking duty. He has two dogs now because I live in a flat and he inherited mine but we share walking duties as he is only a couple of miles up the road.

So go for a ride this morning ending up at my old mans. Loads of on the roads today.

Take my normal walk along the river with a nice woodchip path. A little terrier crossed with a rat appears out of the trees so I call the dogs to heel. (they walk next to my legs at heel and wont move until told so) This rat thing follows us yapping and barking gradually winding up the dogs till Bruno snaps and has a lunge at him. Unfortunately my leg was in the way so I got a pair of chops in my inner thigh!

Sent the dogs away and chased the little rat down the path opposite direction till he buggered off. Poor old Bruno after he bit me looked so crest fallen I din't have the heart to berate him.

Cycle home after hurt, tetanus tomorrow I suppose.

Bruno on the right. Brother and sister a litter apart.

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Cycle home after hurt, tetanus tomorrow I suppose.

I think i would rather have the bite than the tetanus injection Owww

 

[Kins]

If that photo was taken post bite, he does look proper chastened.

No, the photo is about 6 months old. I am crap at remembering to take a camera with me.

 

[biggs682]

oh dear

 

[RWright]

I think i would rather have the bite than the tetanus injection Owww

Same here. Last time I got one of those shots it hurt for about 2 months. I don't know if it was because of the way it was given to me or what, but it hurt bad. It was in the arm. I will take my chances before I have one in the arm again.

Hard to be tough on your dog for doing that, I bet he was wanting to protect you.
My cat on the other hand scratches and bites me all the time...sometimes unprovoked .

 

[Minotier]

Always get checked for any animal bite mate, have you run it under hot water and tried to make it bleed? This always helps reduce the risk of infection. Dogs are laden with bacteria because generally they are to put it mildly a bit grim as to what they will chomp on when you are not looking.
Keep an eye on it and any sign of redness or heat build up, trot off and get a medical proffesional to give you a check.
But as RWright says above your dog was probably trying to protect you, you are pack leader after all.

 

[Sandra6]

I'm sure I was told a human has more bacteria in its mouth than a dog, but I wouldn't want to be bitten by a person anymore than a dog.
When I read "terrier cross with a rat" I thought it was a terrier with a rat in its mouth!!

 

[neil earley]

Looks nasty go get that jab straight away, bet he felt bad about biting you awww give him a treat.

 

[Kins]

I just rode round a friends whose wife is a casualty nurse who said the same so I rode down to our local hospital and asked a nurse if I could get one. Even though they have them they can't do them except in clinic hours monday to friday

Nearest A & E is 16 miles away and as I don't have a car and its started pissing down it will have to wait till tomorrow.

 

[Arch]

Looks nasty go get that jab straight away, bet he felt bad about biting you awww give him a treat.

Not sure a treat is a great idea. I don't think dogs understand the idea of "Here, I'm sorry you feel bad, I know you didn't mean it, cheer up, here's a treat". I suspect he might just think "Ah, bite = treat !"

Lovely looking dogs though.

 

[Crackle]

I don't reckon you've got long: So long, nice seeing you post.

 

[Kins]

Back from A & E, nurse was lovely. Bloke on tannoy said 2 1/2 hour wait as I arrived which didn't sound good, in and out in 20 mins/half hour. Nice. Jab in the arm, quick clean with a wet wipe type thing and kicked out the door.

 

[Saluki]

I was told that once you had turned about 20 that you didn't need any more tetanus jabs. I work with dogs and get bitten from time to time and the doc won't give me a tetanus jab, he says that I am full.

I have a yappy terrier but she is on her lead when out in polite company so as not to cause mayhem. So sorry that you got bitten but one of your own who was probably trying to protect you in the first place.
Nowadays with dog bites, I slap some aloe vera on every hour or so (waking hours) for a day or two, nothing has dropped off because of a bite so far.

 

[Kins]

Well the nurse asked when I last had a tetanus, and I said that the last one was in the arse some time in my 20s after being bitten, that time by a tinker woman. She said she had never given one in the arse in 19 years as a nurse because they stopped injecting them there, so on that basis its been quite a while. 43 now. Don't remember having many/any as a kid.

Don't like needles after being stuck so much during chemo a few years back, and all your posts on how much it hurt worried me a little, didn't hurt at all, but I never watched either.

 

[CopperCyclist]

I'm sure I was told a human has more bacteria in its mouth than a dog, but I wouldn't want to be bitten by a person anymore than a dog.
When I read "terrier cross with a rat" I thought it was a terrier with a rat in its mouth!!

Yep. It's much better to be bitten by a dog than a human (though that's probably a bit like saying its better to get run over by a car than a van...)

We got told that all the time when taken people in to hospital with dog bites (don't feel bad, nasty people, nice police dogs) or sometimes human bites (do feel bad, always nasty people). I don't know of the facts veracity, but one doctor said it was because in the wild we were not dogs 'natural' prey, so the bacteria in their mouth wasn't overly bad for us, whereas when evolving and fighting each other, the ability to nurse each other through human bites was beneficial, Darwin wise, to make it your gene passed on rather than your opponents.