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- ben_3
On a little bike ride yesterday on our rail path I called out to pass a couple and their dog, they acknowledged me and I rode by pretty slowly, a good 8-10 feet away from them as I usually do.
30 feet out ahead of them, their dog is snacking on my ankle. I kick it off, and kind of coast to a stop to catch my breath. The wife is picking herself up out of the mud (covered, she must have domino’d straight down). The dog (a Shepard) is trotting back to them like a proud little death camp patroller.
The husband is looking at me like I threw his wife in the mud and I’m already “what the fuck?”ing this guy as it is. It’s heated, and it’s just getting worse by the second.
Trailing behind this 70lb dog is one of those ratcheting extendible leashes you’d use for a chihuahua. And now he’s going on about how I knocked his wife over with my bike and some other nonsense, while we are arguing, a group of three trail runners come out of the forest and the dog lunges at them. Fortunately the wife grabbed the leash and has the dog close in.
My ankle’s throbbing, and I pull my pant leg up to see a mess of blood. Trying to have a cooler head I asked for their info and when this dog had their shots, to which the tell me its from a shelter and to basically go fuck myself. I take some photos of them and and figure I need to get to the hospital as the bite looks kind of gnarly. The runners are doing the same and tell me they’ll call animal control and report it.
I go home, hop in the shower and wash the wound out. It’s bad but not as gruesome as I thought, couple hanging bits of skin, two inch and a half long gashes bruising and scrapes. Hospital visit, 3 hours later I’m all good.
I call animal control this morning (I don’t want anything to happen to the dog, but kids run on this path, and these shitheads need to account for something) and apparently I’m the 4th call about this dog and owners in the same 18 hour period.
TL;DR - if I die of rabies, it was nice knowing y’all.
- Honestly man, fuck that dog. Once a dog bites a person it has to get put down. Next time it could be a kid. Dogs are amazing but we can’t let them attack people********
- Reporting to animal control is the right move. Let them process this beast********
- Yeah I hear you, as a dog owner who worked through fear aggression when I adopted a Boston Terrier 15 years ago, it's tricky to know when your dog is ready forben_
- different situations. These people clearly don't give a shit, if they'd been to obedience the dog would have a muzzle/martingale and a proper leash at least.ben_
- The hospital didn’t reco rabies shot? Was the dog an actual ‘rescue’ - which would suggest it had shits before being released to fosterGnash
- Lol, shots. Not shitsGnash
- It had the shits, I'm pretty sure that's why it was so irritable.ben_
- No, so the hospital didn't reco them because of it being on leash with people, and it didn't attack it's owners, which a rabid dog would do.ben_
- The thing is I can't be sure where the dog was from, they said "shelter" so I've sent the pic to 5 local shelters here and am waiting for an answer from all butben_
- one of them. They told me they'd had the dog for 2 weeks, which is believable considering how out to lunch they were.ben_
- Anyhow, I'm calling my doctor tomorrow and asking if I can get the program anyway, I do a lot of endurance riding and bats are always a bit of an issue out hereben_
- I've wanted to get the rabies vaccine for a few years now, but it's so expensive if you don't have a reason or occupation to get one that's covered by OHIP.ben_
- And the new ones aren’t in your stomach! My daughter had to get it last summerGnash
- Suecannonball1978
- Fucking shit dog owners. Good on you for calling it in. Hope the dog ends up with people who can give it the tine to train it.thumb_screws
- Dogs don’t need put down. Irresponsible owners do.jtb26
- https://youtu.be/qHZ…jtb26
- Jtb, I tend to agree, most dogs can be rehabilitated with the right attention. People are another story.ben_
- proud little death camp patroller - LOLcassiellux
- Honestly man, fuck that dog. Once a dog bites a person it has to get put down. Next time it could be a kid. Dogs are amazing but we can’t let them attack people