Dog bit me many many times!

[LightBright]

Hi im writing this cause I was a little shook up today. I went to my grandmas house today where they had a new hound dog. It was the 2nd time I saw the dog. At first the dog was very happy to see me, it was so friendly and was playing with us. Than me and my cousins started playing basket ball and the dog went crazy, it started biting me only on my arms, it left lots and lots of red scratches all over my arms. I tried to keep calm. I think eye contact with her made things worse. It went on for maybe more than a minute. Anyways after she bit me she stopped for awhile, and than started doing the same jumping around and biting my brother. Than my little cousin got attacked the same way. But my siblings episode was very short. Actually the biting was more like gnawing since she would have my whole side of arm deep in to the back mouth which was weird.

I think its worth mentioning that im a type 1 diabetic and when I was running/basketball my sugar ran real low and that always emits a strong unique odor. I say this cause I remembered watching something on tv that dogs can alert there owners when the sugars are running low, or smell other problems. The reason it shook me up is cause they say shes usually friendly and never acted like this. I am 100% sure it didn't mean to do harm cause it could have easily seriously hurt us beyond scratches if it wanted to.

[Frog]

Well, I'm glad she didn't really chomp on you.
The dog I grew up with and also my son's dog will play by grabbing your arm in their mouth but not really biting so maybe she thought she was joining in the play. Is she young? Might just not have known how to not bite that hard.
I've heard that about dogs and low blood sugars. Also that they can detect on coming seizures for epileptics. Some are trained to do it but I guess some just react in some way without training.

[JamesV]

Wow, sorry to hear... Could it have been triggered by the basketball? Some dogs go crazy over a certain ball.

My dog does the same thing that Frog mentioned. When playing puts my arm or hand in her mouth but doesn't bit down, even pushes it back out with her tongue.

James

[LightBright]

They say shes still very young which was a surprise to me cause it looks really big. It might have been the basketball since she tried to pick up the basketball and play with us, which we let her. But when I was running for awhile I felt my hypoglycemia coming on but I stupidly didn't do anything about it cause we were in the middle of a game than when the dog came next to me it started acting strange and chomped down with pretty good force but not enough to make me scream lol. It slobbered all over me it felt like it was tasting me. It is a nice dog most of the time.

[Frog]

As a type 1 diabetic for 52 years, I have one piece of advice.

DON'T IGNORE LOW BLOOD SUGARS!

They don't get better by themselves and can get worse faster than you know until you can't do anything about it by yourself. Pretty easy to stick on of those small tubes of glucose tabs in your pocket.

[LightBright]

Ya I was stupid. I usually am good on maintaining my sugars. Im on the insulin pump and it tends to cause me to go low.

52 years! Wow. Ive only had it for about 3 year now.

[GB1]

Hmm. I'd talk to someone who's a specialist and try to figure out what made this dog go nuts without provocation. Is it a puppy? If so, it better learn real quick that this sort of behavior isn't tolerated (personally, I would have whacked the crap out of the thing, but that may not be the smartest thing to do).

And yes, dogs are usually both able and willing to brawl it out, so if you make stern eye contact w/ it when it senses a threatening situation, it will usually take that as a challenge.

But what needs to be done immediately is to let this new (little?) guy know who's 'king of the house', and ASAP...... this type of pecking order needs to be established immediately

[CaraRose]

It sounds to me more like a play mouthing behavior than an actual attack (no hard bites). If she's young it may have had a lot to do with the action of running around stimulating her. They can do a lot of damage without intending to. I've got a scar from my brother's dog mouthing my arm and leaving a deep scratch across my wrist. She was still a half grown pup then. She's learned quite a bit as she's aged now, and has a better sense of boundaries.

Your cousins' dog needs some good training no matter what to learn acceptable and unacceptable behavior.

[Grandpaw]

First of all it did this to more people than you so I would think diabetes can be ruled out. If it is because it is a younger dog and playing you might try doing this. I had a dog that did this in one of the dog obedience classes I was teaching. What I did was to put my hand down and get the dog to try and bite it. When he did I grabbed his lower jaw and held on. By squeezing my hand it made the skin of his lower jaw curl in over his k9 teeth and hurt him more than me. His reaction was to try and get loose but I held on for about thirty seconds. He never displayed that behavior again. You may want to use a glove when doing this.

You need to use common sense with this technique. If it is an older dog and he is not just playing, do not try this. Try it ONLY if the dog is younger and doing a more playful bite, Jeff

[JETA]

I've had dogs my whole life and have three right now.

I'm here to tell you puppies can be mean and aggressive. The owners of this dog need to nip it in the bud right now and get the dog to puppy classes.

What I don't understand is why the dog wasn't removed from the situation after the bad behavior?

My youngest dog will show he freakiest behaviors because she is so timid. It's essential I stop her right away in the calmest manner ever and get her to submit. If we were not addressing her issues I'm sure as a young adult dog she would have bit people by now.

Sorry this happened to you and glad you were not seriously hurt.

[JETA]

Almost forgot....

Cesar Millan on the National Geographic channel is worth watching. His show is called The Dog Whisperer. He's my hero in the dog world.

[CaraRose]

Almost forgot....

Cesar Millan on the National Geographic channel is worth watching. His show is called The Dog Whisperer. He's my hero in the dog world.

Victoria Stillwell of "It's Me Or The Dog" is pretty good too.

[JETA]

Victoria Stillwell of "It's Me Or The Dog" is pretty good too.

Is this the English lady? There's another dog show I saw previews for and this lady went in and ruled the roost.

I've got to look Victoria Stillwell up and see when she's on.

[CaraRose]

Is this the English lady? There's another dog show I saw previews for and this lady went in and ruled the roost.

I've got to look Victoria Stillwell up and see when she's on.

Yep, she's on Animal Planet. She has different training style than Cesar, but she's really good.

[LightBright]

Ya I dont think its cause of diabetes anymore since it bit more than one person.

"What I don't understand is why the dog wasn't removed from the situation after the bad behavior?

My youngest dog will show he freakiest behaviors because she is so timid. It's essential I stop her right away in the calmest manner ever and get her to submit. If we were not addressing her issues I'm sure as a young adult dog she would have bit people by now.

Sorry this happened to you and glad you were not seriously hurt."

Well the reason the dog wasnt removed right away was cause it wasnt our dog so we didnt know what to do. I love animals but to be honest I dont really know much about them, so after it started attacking my smallest cousin we locked her outside where she couldn't do it again. It was sad that we left her outside locked out from the yard for about 3 hours and heard her moan. When we let her inside for feeding she was very calm.

Thanks ya thank god no one got seriously hurt