Many times when caring for our dogs, whether in training them or playing with them, they bite. Sometimes it is a playful nip from us grabbing them while they are playing and that bite is quick and generally not painful.
But other times we might be feeding them or attempting to take something from them and we get growled or snarled at, maybe with full teeth showing and threating to do more damage.
My relative owned a chow. She was attempting to trim it's toenails and accidently cut into the quick on one foot. It started bleeding and she forgot the danger of when a chow smells blood. She reached toward the dog to see how bad the cut was and her dog of whom she had owned for 8 years, attacked her.
Her husband heard her screams and got the dog off of her and in a pen. Her arm required 12 stitches and her leg 10 stitches. If her husband had not been home, she fears the result would have ended her life, for the full grown chow was much to strong for her to ward him off.
The dog was put down.
Have you ever heard of a dog attack or had your own experience or been threated by one by your dogs? If so please share here.
