I just wanted to pass on some valuable information to you dog trainers, pay attention because many may not be aware of this. If your going to take bites from a dog while training, make sure you have your protective gear **ON** <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />!!
PS: I'm fine, chicks dig scars anyways right <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Can you still have children?

Chris, Chris, Chris....when doing civil work, you're not supposed to actually let the dog bite you! Maybe I wasn't clear?

Mannnn....I HOPE chicks dig scars. Otherwise, I'm hosed!

Hope it's not too bad.

Chicks dig scars until they hear how you got them -
"Well...uh....I was bite training my dog and I..uh...forgot to put my protective gear on." Yeh, we'll really dig THAT!

That's why guys say they like women "with a good sense of humor". We have to have a sense of humor to put up with some of the stupid s#!t you guys do.

Chris - hope the stitches are few and the scars "Dig-able". <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Ok Chris, you just can't leave it at "I F up'd, I got bit, it hurt. we want a full after action report, a full debrief for the benifit of all us about to be bit <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Actually this was a reasonable accident, Chris was working the dog and the sleeve slipped down his arm a bit - the dog engaged his bicep and thought to itself....."yummm...the other white meat!"

Chris learns from his mistakes ( slowly....but he learns <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> )

Hey, I can say that Chris is fairly fearless ( he needs to get over the slight flinch around Fetz though... ) and a great addition to train with. He could a top-rated decoy with the great physical condition that he keeps himself in. He's got a bright future in the dog world. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Dennis how was the suspense, better than a stephen King movie?? LOL!!! Sorry the late responses. I have been having in-laws in town, and my wife has been getting ready to have surgery, so I'v been kinda ghost. It was one of those it could have been alot worse situtations. I was using one of those Horton sleeves, which allows you to wear it two ways. One is to catch dogs on the forearm, and high tricept bites, or you turn it the other way and you can take great inner arm bites, and even up into the armpit bites with this sleeve, it's a great alternative to a suit in 90* temps with humidity just as high. The dog had a weak bite, so what I like to do is make the dog loose the bite, to remind him he has to bite deeper if he expects to hang on the bite (dog usually has a good bite, but every now and then for whatever reason he gets a crappy bite). I lift him off the ground and spin him until he flys off (usually one to two spins with a crappy bite and he is thrown off) I then immediatly backpeddal building the dogs drive and intensity (because it's prey has just gotten away) and I usually get a very great rebite. Well on the first bite I was going to slip him the sleeve because he started with a decent bite, but as his bite got crappy I wasn't going to reward him with the sleeve (sleeve is now only from the forearm down, this dog is taught on bicept and armpit) so as I spun him off I didn't re-adjust the sleeve to proper position before he reengaged. He was immediatly called out when it was apparent what was going to happen in the next fraction of a second, and he did as he was airborne making contact with my bicept he was given the command to out, he didn't have time to really bite down yet when given the command, so really my arm went into his mouth and hit the back of his mouth but he never really bit down. As I was being knocked backwards a little from his entry I was moving my arm backwards (shouldn't have) and his top tooth, went in and down to the muscle and as I was extracting my arm out as the dog was being commanded to out his tooth never came up and out, it instead ripped it's way out. Sounds worse than it is and really isn't a big deal. Truth is I really shouldn't have been out there that day doing bite work. Since we are all like family here on leerburg and I'm not embarrassed at all by my condition, I'll say I shouldn't have been out there doing bitework this day because I was cleaning out an old box (you know how it is in-laws are coming,LOL!) and I found a whats called a field medical card (Will the long blue cards) that was filled out for a soldier of mine who died in front of me in Iraq. Then I found a particular Baghdad Map that I hadn't used since the night we got sent out to help out our fellow platoon who got ambushed, I lost 3 friends that night and 2 others would loose limbs, the map still had the ambush site cirlcled and had writting on it that I used to help navigate us to the ambush site. So I was really down that day and figured training dogs was the best way to get my mind off things (usually works fine with no problems <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />, but I wasn't thinking clearly when I was out there, otherwise I wouldn't have never gotten injured, the accident was very preventable by me, I just wasn't paying much attention. So that is how I mangaged to make myself a nice pot of creole dog gumbo, LOL!!!

Thanks Chris, valuable lesson for us all.