Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: RocketMan on July 04, 2009, 01:34:48 AM
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Last weekend it was me and the nose bleed from hell (epistaxis). This weekend it was my wife and a dog bite. She and I tried a new route this evening, and a bull dog came running out of its yard and bit my wife's leg.
Fortunately, it resulted in only scraped skin, mildly broken, not puncture wounds and badly torn flesh. We filed a report with the county sheriff, and the deputy strongly suggested she go to the ER to be checked, etc. The dog will be quarantined for ten days to make sure it doesn't have rabies. Other than that, we're good.
Sigh...they know us too well at the ER. At my wife's tongue-in-cheek suggestion, her doctor threatened to write a prescription preventing her from doing housework for three days. The sheriff's deputy was similarly friendly. Got to love a small town.
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Don't make me post pictures of my dog bite from a few years ago....
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Dog bites are nasty and can cause damages far beyond rabies. About 6 months ago my daughter broke up a dog fight (yeah, I told her so) and got a small puncture wound for her efforts. In three days she had blood poisoning and excruciating pain. See the doc was the right thing to do.
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Rocketman, sorry to hear about your wife. I think 3 days of couch duty sounds about right.
Do you carry pepper spray, a gun, or a big stick while walking? Will you now?
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MY ER visit is nastier. =D
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If it's a small town, do you know the owner? Not that that's relevant in any way.
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Ouch, sorry to hear that. Hope the wife is well. How'd you disrupt the attack?
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Rocketman, sorry to hear about your wife. I think 3 days of couch duty sounds about right.
Do you carry pepper spray, a gun, or a big stick while walking? Will you now?
Thank you for your concern, Fly320s. Actually, we were riding our bikes, a detail that I missed in the OP.
At some point, as finances allow, I will obtain a CCW and carry weapon. Last night really brought that home.
I'm going to have to come up with a reasonably effective alternative in the meantime.
If it's a small town, do you know the owner? Not that that's relevant in any way.
I don't believe we know them. We did not contact them at the time, as escape was foremost on our minds. They were pretty pissed at their dogs, but made absolutely no attempt to see if we were okay. We let the county sheriff make the contact.
Ouch, sorry to hear that. Hope the wife is well. How'd you disrupt the attack?
Balog, we were just plain lucky in that regard. My wife's leg must have been on the upstroke on the pedal, and she was moving along at about the same speed as the dog. The dog got its mouth over my wife's left calf, managed to only scrape her skin with its teeth, and then lost contact.
My wife just continued trucking down the road behind me, and we stopped a few hundred yards further on to assess the situation.
According to the SO, the dog is under quarantine for ten days, and it will be evaluated by animal control after that. If it turns out to be a repeat offense for the animal, it will be put down. If this is its first offense, then on the second it gets put down.
We, or more accurately, she was very fortunate in that the skin was barely broken. It could have been much worse if the dog had gotten a good purchase on her leg.
She is in good shape. Her main concern is not being able to use that riding route as she really likes it. We'll give it a few weeks before trying it again.
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Ah, yes, the old dog-chases-biker story. I know how that feels.
For future use, some dogs are detered by being sprayed with water from a water bottle, by a loud alpha-male yell at the dog, or by a tire pump liberally applied to the nose. Also, pepper spray works pretty well and is fairly cheap.