My mom got bit in the face by a “friendly” German Shepherd when she was a kid. The dog's owner figured she might have pet it where a bullet was still lodged in him. (The dog was put down).
The local doctor stitched her up the best he could on the back table of the country store where it happened. She spent a few weeks with a big bandage on her face and salve. Amazingly her scars healed pretty well. Although she never liked dogs after that! I was surprised she took so well to our big black dog when she visited a few years ago.
A little boy went bananas over Seven the other day but I had to remove her from the situation as he repeatedly kept hugging her face.
She put up with it very well but his last “hug” was particularly aggressive and I could see she was becoming conflicted.
As I left with Seven, I tried to nicely tell his mom that she really should not let him ‘get in the face’ of a dog, especially a strange one.
Cute kid.
He wanted to buy Seven.
:)