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All I can do is report what happened with my dog. I doubt he was in less pain because he'd broken his hip and leg. As I didn't approach him from behind and he also was responding to my voice I know he recognized I was there.

When he bit me I was standing and then squatting down next to him in the same place my fiance squatted down shortly afterward to pick him up. He also wasn't able to see either one of us walking up to him because of the position he was laying on the street. In the position he was in he could see both of us once we walked up close enough to his head where we could squat down and then lift him up.

I was concerned when fiance did pick him up because I had thought we could make a sling type of thing with the towel and carry him in on that. The fiance picked him up under his front legs to where he could lay his head down on fiance's shoulder.

Not sure he'd have been able to smell me over the Windex, Clorox CleanUp and Barkeeper's Friend I'd been using. Anyway, I survived the bites and our pup survived his injuries.

I had to keep him still for 5 weeks after his surgery. Our vet let us borrow a playpen he wasn't using and I kept it padded with a couple of comforters as well as a regular blanket. For the first 3 weeks I could lay those plastic liners like they use in the hospitals under him and would only occasionally need to wash stuff. The last 2 weeks were entirely different though. I was washing his bedding 2-3 times a day. He and I both were glad when he was finally able to get out of 'jail'.