very sad / bizarre

[Jdarg]

This info from the AVMA---

http://www.avma.org/pubhlth/dogbite/dogbitebroc.asp

 

[Jdarg]

I totally agree with your post (including your disclaimer). Our vet will come right out and say that she does not like rotts or pit bulls at all. And there are a few times when we are in the city of Chicago, walking or cutting thru on foot thru marginal neighborhoods and some apt. dwellers will have 3 - 4 pitts chained behind their fence. You can barely walk/run past them w/o breaking into a cold sweat, for fear they'll lunge thru the fence. . What a horrible life some of these poor dogs have.

Our former vet expanded your list to include Akitas (staff was never allowed to be alone in the kennel area when handling one, and thankfully we only had 2 in the practice), Mastiffs, German Shepherds, Dobies, and American Eskimos. He was a safety freak, but had plenty of stories and statistics to back up his concerns.

I will say the only time I was really attacked, the dog was a lab mix. It came flying out of the back of a minivan as I was walking away. Thankfully, I just had a few teeth bruises, but the owner later admitted that the dog attacked her husband when ever she or her son were around. Guess what- she and her son were in the car and she let me put the dog in the car for her.

We had a few pit and rott clients, and they had to wait outside in the car until the waiting room was clear of all other animals and people before entering the clinc. Several times, a pit yanked away from his owner, one time while I was out walking a hospitalized Yorkie. The pit was going for the Yorkie, which I had picked up and barely made it through the door. Pits WILL go after other dogs. It is what they do.

 

[Rudyjohn]

Our former vet expanded your list to include Akitas (staff was never allowed to be alone in the kennel area when handling one, and thankfully we only had 2 in the practice), Mastiffs, German Shepherds, Dobies, and American Eskimos. He was a safety freak, but had plenty of stories and statistics to back up his concerns.

I will say the only time I was really attacked, the dog was a lab mix. It came flying out of the back of a minivan as I was walking away. Thankfully, I just had a few teeth bruises, but the owner later admitted that the dog attacked her husband when ever she or her son were around. Guess what- she and her son were in the car and she let me put the dog in the car for her.

We had a few pit and rott clients, and they had to wait outside in the car until the waiting room was clear of all other animals and people before entering the clinc. Several times, a pit yanked away from his owner, one time while I was out walking a hospitalized Yorkie. The pit was going for the Yorkie, which I had picked up and barely made it through the door. Pits WILL go after other dogs. It is what they do.

There was one time all of us and our pets had to leave the waiting room and walk to the far corner of the parking lot (middle of winter of course) while an older lady who probably only weighed about 70 lbs., walked her rott out and got into her car. I was so terrified and envisioned that huge dog ripping away from her and charging over to the rest of us standing like fools in the corner of the lot. I keep telling myself that we were all making a big mistake by not getting into our cars! That was confirmation for me about what the vets thought about rotts.

And now that I think about it, I was (maybe still) scared of German shepherds and those scary Eskimo dogs with those blue eyes. They seem to sense when I'm nervous.

 

[audie]

i have a healthy respect for dogs ever since i got bit in the bottom lip by a black poodle when i was 9. my cousin who lived up the hill from my grandma and papaw had that dog, and it was insanely jealous of him. i went to hug him goodbye and the dog jumped up and bit my lip - took 10 stitches to take care of it. still have the scar.

that dog disappeared shortly after that. not sure if my papaw or my dad had something to do with it - i never asked....

 

[Kyle]

Our former vet expanded your list to include Akitas (staff was never allowed to be alone in the kennel area when handling one, and thankfully we only had 2 in the practice), Mastiffs, German Shepherds, Dobies, and American Eskimos. He was a safety freak, but had plenty of stories and statistics to back up his concerns.



I'm sure glad you didn't add Labradane to your list. My poor little puppy's feelings would have been hurt. He is "sensitive" ya know.