Posted on 06/14/2021 8:55:06 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Last Christmas morning, I patted my bed, inviting my newly adopted beagle, Bonnie, to jump up and cuddle. My boyfriend, still under the covers, reached out to pet her soft little head, which was now wedged between us. I turned away to grab my phone, and it happened: a guttural bark, followed by a human scream. I whipped around to see my boyfriend’s hand covered in blood. Before I could figure out how to help him, he was out the door on his way to urgent care.
It was Bonnie’s second bite in the week since I’d adopted her.
Like many others last year, I was thrilled to adopt a dog. The so-called pandemic puppy boom made for what felt like stiff competition at the time—according to one Nielsen survey, pet adoptions between March and July 2020 rose more than 15 percent from the same stretch in 2019. After months of filling out applications, I was eventually contacted by an animal shelter in New Jersey: A 6-year-old beagle whose photo melted my heart was ready to meet me. Some friends and I drove down from New York City to pick her up, and when we got out of the car, Bonnie trotted up to me immediately. Timid but curious, she allowed me to scratch one of her velvety ears as she sniffed my jacket. When she leaned into my hands like the beagle I had growing up used to do, it seemed meant to be.
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Today, dogs just naturally come up to me. We make eye contact and magically we're best friends. I just have a special place in my heart for dogs I suppose and they all see it.
Honestly, part of me was thinking "oh hell no!" I wasn't going to live next to a dog that was afraid of me and barked at me all the time. So I was a little selfish with my motives. ;-)
Urgent care for a beagle bite? What the heck is wrong wit people these days?
Sadly, if/when all the at-home workers return to the office, I suspect there will be a spate of orphan COVID dogs.
Even prior to COVID, when I would take dogs to vet, often seniors in the waiting room would share that their dogs were “bequeathed” to them by their millennial kids...I should know as I am one of them...
If a dog bites a person one time it should be put down. You can take no chances. What if the dog who you knew had a habit of biting or aggression got loose and harmed another person? Then you would be responsible for the harm done.
I owned a chow once, and it out of the blue leapt at a relative’s throat. Luckily I had a leash on it and pulled hard to prevent the animal from clamping down on her. I immediately took the dog to have it put down.
Something is wrong with YOU to try to keep an animal that bites people for no reason.
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