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#195190 - 05/16/08 12:36 PM
Re: Dog Bit Me HELP!!!!!
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Matthew Criner
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Guys I should of been more clear on my post, I am sorry.
I never just yell at my dog, and I honestly do not think he is afraid of me....he tries to sleep on the bed with me at night, he tries to be by my side all the time....
I am just saying that for a week after the incident, he would run in his kennel whenever I came in the room.
Also let me be clear and say that when he bit me the first time, I didn't scold him at all, I was in far too much pain.
Also let me say that I never just "yell" at my dog. The only time I have really yelled at him is when he bit me the second time. Any other time a simply and stern "no" will suffice.
My dog although not fully trained, is decently trained and minds me. For instance, he knows all the basic commands: sit, down, down-stay, come, heel, stop, and such.
I think my dog gets sufficient exercise, I walk about 5.5 miles with him every day on the weekday, and on the weekends he usually is swimming with me in the pool now that the summer has come.
Really this is the only aggression I have seen of him that is why it scared me so much. I kind of am thinking his leg is sore or something because I gave him a bath yesterday, and when I lifted up the same foot he put his mouth on my hand but did not bite or growl or anything, just did it real quick and then took it off. I told him its ok and rubbed his foot and then he started licking my hand. I think maybe his foot is hurt, I am going to take him to the vet this Monday.
Really when he bit me it just scared me, as I have never experienced anything like that before. And when it looked like he was going to bite me again the other day, it scared me.
I am going to buy those videos though and review the podcosts, and any other help would be greatly appreciated.
To those of you that were stern towards me I thank you as well as I deserve it.
Thanks again, and if anyone lives near Pensacola, FL and could do a dog review (paid of course) PM me or reply on this thread.
Thanks.
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#195222 - 05/16/08 02:43 PM
Re: Dog Bit Me HELP!!!!!
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Connie Sutherland
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And please post back after the vet eval, too. A dog in pain is often not a dog acting like his usual self.
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#195248 - 05/16/08 05:20 PM
Re: Dog Bit Me HELP!!!!!
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Amber Morgan
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I kind of am thinking his leg is sore or something because I gave him a bath yesterday, and when I lifted up the same foot he put his mouth on my hand but did not bite or growl or anything, just did it real quick and then took it off. I told him its ok and rubbed his foot and then he started licking my hand. I think maybe his foot is hurt, I am going to take him to the vet this Monday.
Matthew, are you saying that you think his foot was hurt prior to you pulling him out? I think it's also possible that YOU hurt his foot when you pulled him out that way. You said he growled and cried out before the bite. I'm not trying to be harsh (honestly!), but it makes a certain amount of sense to me, as I visualize you trying to pull out a heavy, reluctant dog out from under a bed by a single paw. I'm not saying you did it deliberately at all but that might have been why you got a bite and that might have been why he's sore now.
I would be honest with the vet about what you did (if anything, probably a pulled muscle) so that it can help them figure it out. And someone mentioned having a leash or a drag line on him so that you don't need to pull the dog out via a body part.
I'd try to keep him out from under the bed in the first place and stick to a crate (darken it with a blanket if that helps him feel secure) but the drag line will help in case he manages to slink under there. If an unleashed dog is under a bed then he's not under your control and that's never a good thing.
If this dog's never shown aggression to you before and yelped before he bit you, then it sounds like you have some work to do but it's not impossible to win back the trust.
Good luck. 
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