![]() ![]() When she arrived, she said, "I cannot guarantee he won't bite again."ĭodger seemed to be getting better and although he'd snapped at me a few times he hadn't broken skin. I called in a certified trainer, a woman highly experienced in dog aggression. He had a thorough medical work up, and went on the anti-anxiety medication clomipramine after no physical cause for his behavior change was found. Three months before that fateful night, my 42-pound, 9-year-old English setter had bitten me three times in two seconds he left six wounds on my forearm under a sweatshirt after I petted him on his back. I had been working with Dodger for months on his aggression. However, we would all be safer if more people euthanized dogs whose behavior cannot be improved after professional assistance. This choice - and it didn't feel like a choice, but something I had to do - is not one everyone would make, I know. I have no doubt that ending his life was the right thing to do. "If he were healthy, you wouldn't be here this morning," she said, and I knew she was right. The vet who euthanized him said I looked like I'd been in a bar fight. ![]() Had I hit my head on the top I could have broken my neck and become a quadriplegic like my mother had been. My head ended up in the bottom level of an open-sided end table. I pulled back and fell down half a flight of steep stairs. He seemed fine, but a moment later he went for my face. ![]() I saw him watch me come up the stairs at 12:30 a.m. When my dog lunged at my face, I fell down the stairs. ![]()
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