I have a friend who was a K-9 officer. His German shepherd was extremely well trained and disciplined. He left his toddler daughter and dog alone for seconds to stir a pot on the stove. Heard his daughter scream. Went in to find dog had bitten daughters face and caused pretty massive injuries despite it being probably a nip. Knew a girl who was visiting friends and had their lap dog in her lap petting him. Dog suddenly, with no provocation, jumped up and bit girl in the lip. She had to have plastic surgery to repair. Dogs are dogs. Sometimes they do dog things.
Dogs are dogs.
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My parents had a poodle that was the most vicious thing you’ve ever seen. I wouldn’t be here today if they owned a pit bull.
The dog would attack me for nothing and my parents would ask me what I did to the dog. The little #$^**)#$.
Bingo. We have a winner.
That's why children, especially babies and toddlers, should never be left unsupervised with ANY dog. My mother had a chihuahua. Sneaky little bastard. If you weren't watching he would stroll over to you and bite you for no apparent reason. Sharp teeth on that beast.
When my mother wasn't looking my wife gave him a good kick. He never tried to bite her again. ha ha
People do not understand that all dogs bite. They bite each other all the time. So why not bite you? I have seen beagle puppies(and heard) bite onto another litter mates ear and shake it like a shark back and forth. It just what they do.
It is the strength and size of the canine that determine whether the bite is life threatening.
I stopped at my neighbors house earlier this week. They have two dogs. One is a little mix breed mutt that probably weighs 15 pounds. It bit me on the back of my leg in the calf muscle when I was not looking. If my neighbor was not there to scold it, I would have punted it across the yard. It just nipped me. I had on jeans. No damage done.
We had 5 Dobermans over a 20 year period. Usually 2 at a time. The last one we had, developed Idiopathic Aggression over a 6 month period. This is a form of aggression that is suspected to be a brain problem akin to epilepsy.It is never a treatable form of aggression. The dog loses all control and doesn’t even recognize his owner, snarls, gets dead eyes, and then within seconds, when the dog “snaps out of it” wants to be your buddy again.
We had to put him down last July. I figured out what was wrong with our dog in time to euthanize him before he bit our other dog or one of us. When you research this problem online you would not believe the idiots who LET a dog bite many times and still agonize about putting their dog down. Once I figured it out, I made the only decision that was right and followed through.
I had never heard of Idiopathic Aggression before I dealt with it.
Apparently it is more well known in the cocker spaniel breed and is then called “Cocker Rage” and stemmed from a show winner who later developed Idiopathic Aggression, after he’d spread his DNA all over America.
Idiopathic Aggression appears during age 1-3. Our dog went from sweet to being CUJO for a minute, over a period of about 6 months. The last night we had him, I didn’t sleep. I was glad to give him the pre-euthanasia drugs at home (he needed to be pre-sedated because of this dangerous condition), and get him to the vet and get it done.
There are about 8 breeds of dogs that get this condition more than others. Dobermans were not at the top of the list.