Has anyone here been attacked by a dog?

When I was around 11. I used to help my dad on weekends at work. We just drove around the city, small towns selling clothes.

I remember we were in a lady's house and there were like three dogs, and they all start barking at us. My dad had always told me that every time a dog came close to me, I should show no fear, otherwise things could get really ugly.

But I was eleven, and I was scared. I start walking back slowly as one started to come close. Then I quickly turned around and start getting away. That's when it happened,, He bit my the back of my leg so hard I started to cry. I had to get disinfected and everything, I spend the next month with two little black dots on my right leg. It was and awful experience.

"The things you try to hide always turn out to be the things you can't forget."

I have never really been attacked, nor have I ever known someone who has been (despite living next door to a man who bred the most gentle Staffordshire Bull Terriers for years) but I was bitten by one of my dogs once.

I was about eleven and my dog, a big golden retriever, was lying outside on the deck. It was night so I was trying to get him up and bring him inside, but before I did that I leaned over and gave him a kiss on the cheek, which I usually always did to him. But he jumped up suddenly, swung his head around with his teeth bared and caught me right on my jawline.

Two stitches for me and a trip to the vet for him later, we discovered he was in the beginnings of bad arthritis in his hind leg and when I had leaned over to kiss him, I'd accidentally put my weight on it and hurt him.

That was six years ago and we still have the dog (and two new ones now as well), and I still love him to bits despite the little scar on my face.

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that's intense. i've been barked at loudly. that's about it.




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my experience:
my grandmother had this female english mastiff, named….cleo! a great dog in every respect. loving, caring, protective, just a great dog and could not ask for a better dog. (the story does not center around this dog's negative actions)

Well, my sister and I were playing in front of my grandmothers house(the adults being inside for a short period of time), just being kids. i was about 5 or so at the time which puts my sis at around 8.
My grandmother's neighbor had this dog (unfortunately i can not remember the breed of this dog, but it was a good medium sized dog. nothing compared to an EM though lol) and the neighbors dog hated kids or something, because whenever it saw us it would flip out. Anyways, the neighbors had accidentally left their side door to their yard open, so when we were playing the dog just straight up saw us and charged while barking/showing teeth.
This is when Cleo, seeing this, must have thought "oh hell no" ran down the steps through the bushes, picked the neighbors dog up by the neck and threw it like a rag. The neighbors dog whimpered away slowly as Cleo stood her ground in front of us. No joke. That yuppy dog NEVER fooled around with us again, knowing Cleo was there. I loved Cleo, she was a great dog. And I'm sure that if Cleo was not there the neighbors dog would/could have done some damage to us. So I wasn't attacked, but it was pretty close and probably would have been alongside my sister if it weren't for Cleo. Cleo also never showed aggression towards ANYBODY, she was a very friendly dog. I honestly just think her motherly instincts kicked in at that moment and would not have let us get harmed. (given she knew us since we were itty bitty babies)

She passed away a few years later of old age. I will always remember that huge ass dog lol I remember her chest as that is how tall she was, thats all I could see at eye level... God I miss my deceased pets, however I have some great ones now as well :)

I have never been attacked by a dog but for some strange reason it's one of my biggest phobias/fears. I'm terrified of strange dogs. When I go for walks (which I do often), I walk on the road beside high fences in case one starts snarling/barking and scares the crap outta me. If it's a dog I know, and know the temperament, I'm fine, but strange ones terrify me. The awful thing is dogs can tell when you're scared and it's puts them on edge so my interaction with them never turns out very well.

I got chased for about 20 feet. When I was sure I wasn't going to out run it, i turned around and did what your supposed to do. took big kicking steps towards it. it decided it didn't want to be squashed so it turned around and went back to its house.

My former fiance' was attacked by her own dog when she was only 10. The jaws of the dog were so strong it literally broke both the skin and bone alike, leaving both physical AND emotional damage. The dog, 16 and turning out to be suffering from dementia, had to be put to sleep. As of today, whenever she goes to someone's place, she asks ahead of time what kind of pets they have. If they say they have a dog, she demands it be locked up and out of her sight, no matter the size and breed of the dog. Ironically, she has no phobia of cats, despite the fact their scratches and bites can be worse of a dog, since their teeth are tiny and pointy like needles, and can puncture the bone worse than a dog can. And let's just say that song by Ted Nugent (Cat Scratch Fever) isn't just a song, it's a real disease one can get from a cat's scratch!



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Well i've never really been attacked in the sense of being bitten. The only times i've been bitten were accidents. One time my dog seemed to be having a bad dream, whimpering in his sleep, so I reached over to shake him and wake him up, something I do all the time and never have a problem with. He reflexively bit my hand in his sleep, not really hard but harder than he would when just playing. He then woke up and immediately let go of my fingers. Another time, my dog (not the same one) bit me in the balls, hard. He didn't mean to; he was going for the frisbee in my hand and tragically missed. But I don't think i've ever screamed that loudly before or since lol.

But one time some years ago, when I was a teenager, I was out in my yard in the middle of the night. I'd gone out to do something, can't remember what. I live in a rural, wooded area and there are various kinds of animals around here, from dogs to coyotes to bears and cougars. All of a sudden I hear something growling, like growling in a way like it really meant business. There was no moon that night so it was pitch black, I can see nothing, and I have no idea what this thing is. Could be a dog, could be anything. I think it was most likely a dog, which is why I include it in this post, but I don't know for sure. All I know is the general direction the sound is coming from, and a rough guess at the distance it was away from me. I immediately switch into survival mode. I sure wasn't going to stand there and wait for this thing to come at me, and I was too far away from my house to safely run there (plus the direction this sound was coming from was from a place where it could intercept me if I ran to the house). So I do the fastest thinking i've ever done in my life, calculating the odds of reaching any potential havens around me. I decide on the old truck that my dad has had sitting in the backyard for ages, as the thing closest to me. So I run to that and, so help me God, I can hear this thing f-cking chasing after me. I get to the truck in about 3 seconds, open the back door (it's a pickup with a canopy on the back, and that canopy door was the closest door to me) and leap in, slamming the door shut behind me. I decide that since it's close to dawn, i'll just sit in there for a short time until it starts getting light out and then i'll leave. I sat there for maybe 20 or 30 minutes, until daylight started showing up and I could see around the yard reasonably well, and I cautiously walked back to my house. No sign of the dog or whatever it was.

Needless to say, I was a little paranoid about going out into the yard at night for a while lol. I've gotten over it now though. That was the only incident of its kind that i've ever had.

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