My Dog was attacked

Fratton Fred

I have a very friendly collie/labrador cross and last night she followed me outside while I was putting out the bins.

A neighbours dog (A German Shepherd) came running down the road and my dog went over to say hello, (and have a sniff I suppose:rolleyes: ). These to dogs have not met before.

The German Shepherd then went for my dog and the two of them rolled around a bit with my dog whimpering, the GS snarling. The owner ran over and dragged the dog away while mine came and hidbehind me shaking like a leaf.

The owner was very apologetic explaining the dog was re-homed etc and at first I was happy because I thought my dog was fine, but she isn't. she has blood on the inside of one of her legs and is limping a bit.

Can anyone give me some advice on what I need to do? should I get my dog checked by a vet? should I report the German Shepherd?

My initial thought is not to worry, but what if it was a child and not a dog that got attacked.

golden

Would advise to bring your dog to the vet as puncture wounds can harvest infections best get it checked out.

Beelzebub

Stick yer man with the vets bill.
Well maybe tell him that your dog is having treatment due to the attack.
And see how it develops from there.
Good luck.

Alfasudcrazy

Lets face it just like humans there are some physco dogs out there. Our neighbours had a german shepard a few years back and it was like a canine devil. Used to sneak about at night stalking anything it could kill.

It killed our two goats and in another incident our little jack russell terrier. I would have killed it myself if I could catch it but the neighbours got rid of it before I could.

Id report the dog if it was me. That IS one of the dangerous dogs that give the other good ones such a bad name.:mad:

alexdenby6

i'd say give the owner a chance to train and socialise his dog properly instead of reporting it. give him the bill, but i wouldnt go further unless it happens again.

Gillie

Give him the bill for defo!

Are you "friendly" with this neighbour?
If so you should be able to sit down with them and express your concerns.
As you said "what if it was not a dog..."
If they are reasonable go for it.

Perhaps if your dog is not too emotionally scarred you could use your dog to socialise the GSD. Walks together?
Only if the GSD owner would be serious about the training and had proper control of the dog.

Good luck

arybvtcw0eolkf

You word against his I'm afraid.

I suspect he'll say your dog attacked first.

As regards the wounds, get them checked by the Vets.

2funki4wheelz

Mairt wrote:

You word against his I'm afraid.

I suspect he'll say your dog attacked first.

Well the owner did come out apologetic, so that's not necessarily the case, so I'd speak to them about covering the vets bill and what they're doing to socialise the dog so there's less chance of it happening again.

Fratton Fred

Gillie wrote:

Give him the bill for defo!

Are you "friendly" with this neighbour?
If so you should be able to sit down with them and express your concerns.
As you said "what if it was not a dog..."
If they are reasonable go for it.

Perhaps if your dog is not too emotionally scarred you could use your dog to socialise the GSD. Walks together?
Only if the GSD owner would be serious about the training and had proper control of the dog.

Good luck

We're not friendly, in fact quite the opposite. The guys mother keeps tryng to have our cars clamped, but that is another story. I think this Dog is beyond help, it is a rescue dog that was, I suspect, abused by his former owners.

Anyone who wants to form their own opinion on which dog attacked which can come and see for themselves. They will find my dog having its nails painted by my daughter and being used as a pony to pull the local kids up the road on their scooters. The GSD on the other hand will be found in the back garden barking and growling at anything that walks past.

lightening

Same happened to me, got the dog stitched up and forgot about it. If things are bad with the neighbour I would do the same. At least he apologised....

arybvtcw0eolkf

2funki4wheelz wrote:

Well the owner did come out apologetic, so that's not necessarily the case, so I'd speak to them about covering the vets bill and what they're doing to socialise the dog so there's less chance of it happening again.

I wasn't doubting you for a second, just saying what I suspect might happen.

peasant

Fratton Fred wrote:

Anyone who wants to form their own opinion on which dog attacked which can come and see for themselves. They will find my dog having its nails painted by my daughter and being used as a pony to pull the local kids up the road on their scooters. The GSD on the other hand will be found in the back garden barking and growling at anything that walks past.

While in your case it very much sounds like your dog was the innocent victim, I'd still like to make a general remark on this:

How a dog behaves towards people and with people is not necessarily a good indicator on how it would react in an inter-dog altercation.
To the contrary, actually.

There are more and more dogs out there that have great relationships with their owners and people in general but very little doggy skills.
Best (or rather worst) example for that would the little toy dogs that get mollycoddled all day long and carried around in handbags etc.
They know how to wrap people around their little paws, but faced with another dog, they have no skills whatsoever. In fact its usually them that start the trouble:rolleyes:
Also a lot of "family" dogs get very little dog to dog interaction and loose their communication skills.
There is a Lab in our neighbourhood that is an absolute dote, the friendliest dog you could ever meet. But he has absolutely no manners. Whenever we meet him, he comes racing along, barging in between our three dogs .."play with me, play with me!" ...ignoring all warning signs on the way, not going through the rituals, not allowing time for the customary sniff and posture game.
The end result is that every single time he gets a severe "telling off" from one of ours ...and he still doesn't learn :rolleyes:

His owners of course are totally unaware of his total lack of doggy manners and by now think that our three are bloodthirsty monsters (even though they've never done more than make an awful lot of noise)