Surgeons in China Re-attach Woman's Lips After Dog Bit Them Off

[QueenScoopalot]

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_i...1775421385B253

Hong Kong - Surgeons in China have re-attached a woman's lips after her pet dog bit them off when she kissed it, a news report said on Friday.

The woman regularly kissed her dog but one night in June the animal turned on her and bit off and swallowed her lips, according to the South China Morning Post.

The woman's family spent 40 minutes getting the dog to cough the lips up and surgeons in Xian, central China, were able to reattach them, the newspaper said. - Sapa-DPA

I can somewhat sort of relate to this story, as when I was five, my lips were bitten off by a beagle. The dog didn't swallow them though! I had them stitched back on after losing lots of blood (in the good old days, a parent needed to give permission for me to be rushed to the hospital). Instead I was driven to my house in a police car, and I recall an entire box or so of kleenex being used to control the bleeding! I had to endure speech therapy for a few years after that, but I still love dogs! I just don't kiss them on the mouth!

[wolflady]

[KYS]

How horrible.

Almost makes me think twice about kissing my dogs.

[popcornbird]

I would never kiss a dog, or any animal, on the *mouth* to begin with.

[jazzcat]

Ouch!

[Kfamr]

I could never think twice about kissing my dogs on the mouth. I normally hold their muzzles while kissing them, anyways.

[Uabassoon]

Poor lady, I would be scared to kiss another dog if that happened to me.

[dappledoxie]

How awful!

[swimma253]

thats awful!!! But I find it kind of hard to believe that he swallowed them...? But I guess it could happen...

[molucass]

Originally posted by Kfamr
I could never think twice about kissing my dogs on the mouth. I normally hold their muzzles while kissing them, anyways.

Ditto!

[GoldenRetrLuver]

That's terrible.

I never kiss my dogs on the mouth. Neither of them are very kissy as it is, and I like it better that way.

[Amber]

[leslie flenner]

My best friend had a dog (my house always was just cats) and we kissed Ollie on the lips constantly (she was named after Olivia Hussey, who played Juliet! We must have gone to see Romeo and Juliet at least 6 or 7 times and cried every time! Anyway, never bit! But, I do try to hold the muzzle now because it just seems like a good idea. Jan, any pics of you with no lips?

[chocolatepuppy]

I kiss my dogs on the top of their head. Never really thought about kissing their mouth. Might try to slip me the tongue!

[QueenScoopalot]

Originally posted by leslie flenner
My best friend had a dog (my house always was just cats) and we kissed Ollie on the lips constantly (she was named after Olivia Hussey, who played Juliet! We must have gone to see Romeo and Juliet at least 6 or 7 times and cried every time! Anyway, never bit! But, I do try to hold the muzzle now because it just seems like a good idea. Jan, any pics of you with no lips?

Leslie..my lips were shredded, not removed and swallowed. Yuck! Somewhere there's pictures of me as a little kid with donald duck lips and plenty of scars. I have no idea who has them....not me. Oh well. P.S I know where dogs mouths have been, and I'm not so sure I buy the idea that their mouths are cleaner than humans.