[TracyJo]

I won't go shotting anyone I promise. If all else fails I'll leave the country. I'll go to germany.

Hate to burst your bubble PD but there is already legislature against Dobes in Germany... Will find the link and post it soon... Currently they fall in Cat 2 (I think) they must pass a temperment test and be muzzled and on lead in public.. A specific amount of liability insurance is required and the owner has to pass a competency test...

 

[TracyJo]

Here is the pic that I submitted of Chi. Am going to try to find a great pic that I have of Storm (our old Pit) and Jordan asleep on the couch together when Jordan was still in diapers, to submit, it's priceless.

Guess what? I was yelled at for putting my face down by the dog while it was eating!!!!!!!! No going over & telling Gene that Chip needed to be destroyed, no telling Gene that he had a vicious dog. I was the one in trouble!!

I have suffered 2 serious bites, one when I was three (did the same thing you did with my Aunt's old dog Tad) and once when I was 16. Both times it was my fault. My immediate family just could not understand why I didn't want to sue over the bite when I was 16. The family's insurance company offered to pay for all medical bills to include the reconstructive surgeries and a small settlement ($1,200.00).
Freckles was an adult -but not old- Aussie that was owned by a friend of a friend. Although I had been around him quite a bit it took him several visits to warm up to me and I knew that he had bit before and he didn't like strangers. So what do I do? My friend and I went over to his house (to visit his cutie owner David) late on a weekend night, Freckles was laying in his chair and the idiot I am leaned over the back of the chair and him to pet him, waking him up, startling him and ultimately loosing my left cheek. I swear I didn't feel anything and think I went into immediate shock. I stood up and David passed out. My friend - Mindy - was white as a ghost, I wondered what the heck was wrong with them LOL. Then I went to the bathroom to see how bad this little nip was. My face looked like something from a horror film, a gash from the corner of my left eye to the bottom corner of the right side of my mouth. Just below my left cheek bone to the right corner of my mouth was ripped all the way through causing that side of my face to just kind of fold over... Really gross stuff. But it was my fault. Should I petition to ban all herding dogs without tails now?

 

[TracyJo]

Yeah I had a couple surgeries actually and have only a smallish scar on the left side of my upper lip and a teeny tiny scar in the bottom right corner, also a tad bit of nerve damage (sometimes the left side of my lower lip will twitch and pull down); nothing I can't live with
That's awful about your JRT! But I have to tell you if I had been any younger, my parents would have pushed the issue (for more money if not for the death of the dog) As soon as I spoke up to the lawyer though he told my folks to give it up: unless I was on board a law suit would be futile. I personally didn't see the purpose of punishing the family or the dog for a mistake that I made... My medical bills were met by their homeowners insurance, didn't see how a larger settlement would have made anything better...