So sorry for both of you.....what a good boy to let you clean the wound....he KNOWS you are doing this to help him.....they are sooooo smart. Courage and keep going out with Finn.....the more you do it the less you will be stressed out and don't forget our pups know when we are stressed..... It is a shock to our system when our pups are attacked. We would rather be attacked ourselves than our doggies. Be brave and continue walking Finn .... again,so sorry you had to go through that.
I wonder what set that Dane off? You did have a chance to observe him and I bet you are usually good at judging compatability with your dog. I know I've let my dog play with dogs we never saw before, just two days ago actually, two Schaunzers. In our case the meetings are usually both off leash to start with, so have to wonder if the Dane seeing Finn on leash first played a part, though hard to see how when they started out ok.
Oh god I am sorry, I know how awful it is when your dog is bitten, especially when it was completely and utterly not your dog's fault...
I do very similar - only I walk in busy places, so I do need my dogs to be ok with quite a high volume of dog traffic. Which means they do have to keep meeting strange dogs in order to be good at meeting strange dogs. I don't want my dogs to play with other dogs though, I want them to confidently say hello (only if they want to do so) and move on. And not to say hello if I don't want them to do so. I think this is easier said than done. I seem to spend half my life deterring other pet owners from allowing their dogs to run up to mine, and then being surprised when I call my dogs and walk off, usually with their dog following me....or avoiding people charging over with dogs on lead shouting 'can we say hello?!' and being offended when I say 'no, no thanks'. Drives me quite nuts....
We came round a corner with H off lead, in front of us a Great Dane and a large Ridgeback lunged at each other. It got aggressive very quickly, the size of the dogs made it all quite scary. H took one look, came right to my side, I put his lead on and waited out of the way as there was nothing I could do. Once they were separated and under control we went past, the Great Dane tried to lunge at Homer. H has been attacked seamingly unprovoked on a couple of occasions. H is no angel and can be a bit growly especially towards bouncy puppies but will walk way never taking it further. I watch him to see if there's any thing in his stance that other dogs might take offence to. Like watching children in the playground it can be the child who's been thumped who's the initial provoker.
i tried to post a picture but I could not for I am not behind my pc. With an iPad it is more difficult....
Sorry post sent before finished.... But this isn't always the case and some dogs will attack with no reason. I think this confuses the attacked dog which can lead to fear issues of other dogs arising. Hope with lots of love Finn recovers well and with our best wishes your nerves recover too.
@JulieT, I am fortunate that I where I walk, I might see only a couple of dogs. On one common I might be the only person UNTIL I put a blind out and then that is guarranteed to produce a human!
We went to the vet again. Finn got a little temp. This time we went to our own vet. She thought it was a nasty wound. It is very deep. She cleaned it again and more then 20cc went in it. Now we have to give him one week longer of antibiotics. He also has to stay on carprodyl once a day. I have to clean it too again once a day. She was afraid that the inflammation will go into his chest. Hopefully I was in time to go to the vet again to let it check out for I thought it didn't look good.
Finn is doing okay. His temperature is down and back to normal. I cleaned his wound with a solution the vet gave me. In went 30cc. It came out immediately. When it wasn't so serious i could have laughed because out of his neck came the fluid out again with such a speed. The fluid what comes out it still filthy. He is a very good and sensible boy and let me do this all to him. He never was that way...like he knows what is good for him!
