I got bit.

This isnt my first bite. But it is the worst.

The first was when I was interning, I neglected to keep a stressed Jack Russel moving in a high stress situation he went to bit another dog that past by and got my inside thigh. It barely broke the skin.

The second, was very scary. I had a very large In Kennel Training dog. He had attacked and nearly killed his house mate. I knew how to help him. But once he was with me and away from his owners he was terrified. I kept him outside as much as possible,  it was on his 3rd or 4th day I went out in the evening to get him and bring him in. And I could tell he was not in the best of moods. I took my time and got a slip lead on him, it took me a half hour. Once the lead was on I took slow steps to the gate. Every step I took he growled or lunged at me, every time I held my ground, not wanting him to think I was afraid of him. Finally he lunged up and put a puncture in my shoulder. He was aiming for my face. That was the scariest part. I remember I was able to get him in for the night, but I dont remember how long it took or how I did it. With this one I feel I did alot of things right. But my mistake was not putting my dogs  away or taking my cell out with me. If I had put my dogs away it would lessened his stress because they were on the other side of the fence barking. If I had brought my cell phone out I could have call my husband out to help me. He was home but in the garage where even if I called to him he wouldnt have heard me. I sent that dog home.

My third surprisingly came from my own dog. He was chasing the leaf blower missed and and nailed my leg. That was his very first come to God moment. Now I dont hit my dogs. But they need to know that putting their teeth on me is not ok. And I understand it was an accident, but he should know where he is putting his teeth.

Then there was this one. The third.

I had three dogs in a yard getting them ready to go to an adoption event. One a yellow lab is a little selective in which dogs he gets along with but he is great 99% of the time. A second a German Shepherd. Was thought to be aggressive but I had ran him threw some tests, with no aggression, and he and the lab had been running in daycare for weeks with no issues. It was very early saturday morning and the three dogs had been out for about an hour I was walking threw the yard, and the next thing I knew the two where fighting. I remember looking at the two and not being able to see a good opportunity to to grab collars, so I grabbed the hip of the shepherd, that's when he turned around and got a mouth full of my wrist, after that I dont know what happened some how I got a very deep laceration on my left hand, blood every were... eventually the fight stopped. Both dogs are fine. The lab has a few punctures but nothing bad at all. In the end my right wrist has 4 shallow lacerations. And my left middle finger the deep inch long laceration. Both hands swelled and I eventually went to the minute clinic and the doc said I should have gotten stitches. I have been soaking them in Epson salt and warm water ( to prevent infection ) , putting Vitamin E oil on them ( to prevent scaring ) and taking antibiotics. Three days later the swelling is down but both hands are very sore. What I should have done.I have a spray I had just recently bought that brakes up dog fights I keep it out in the yard on a fence. Its more of a habit to grab my stock stick and brake up a fight that way, but I didnt have that out there and in the commotion I forgot about the spray.


ETA: I take it back, the Jack was not my first bite. My first one was when I was a groomer and I was bathing a cat (ugh, yes a cat) I had it soaking in the tub when the other groomer turned on the blow dryer the cat got scared and made a run for it so I grabbed the first thing I could, its tail, it turned around and put 4 punctures in the palm of my hand. It hurt. Alot.