What Information are "owners" entitled to?

[applesmom]

not trying to be mean, but asking a honest question.

How would one know, it wouldnt happen again???

Good question!

I was thinking of a particular incident I had. About three times a week I played with Coffee with the hose; encouraging her to bite at the water as it came out the end. Both of us had a blast playing like that and she got lots of exercise!

One beautiful spring day I got the bright idea to bathe her outside with the hose. The poor dog had no way of knowing my thumb was over the end of the hose to make the water spray. She chomped down on the water as usual and bit right through my thumb.

It was pure accident and lack of forethought on my part. Couldn't hardly hide a bandaged thumb though!

There was another incident with Howdy. Our neighborhood went through a rough time for a few years and we encouraged the dogs to run to the window and bark furiously when we heard strange noises in our yard.

One night my 16 year old granddaughter, Terri was sleeping on the couch and her 18 year old sister Heather was sleeping in the bedroom. In the middle of the night I woke up to hear the chilling sound of Heather screaming "he bit me", followed by huge gulping sobs!

I ran out into the living room terrified and not knowing what to expect. Howdy and Terri had both been sound asleep on the couch and Heather who couldn't sleep had gotten up and reached beside Terri's head to turn the lamp on.

Terri not knowing Heather was up, was startled and woke just enough to tell a "dead to the world" Howdy to "go see".

Sensing a human presence practically on top of Terri he immediately grabbed Heathers arm in his mouth. He instantly recognized her scent and let go before she could even react.

There wasn't a mark on Heather, but from that day forward we knew that the "go see" command was worth it's weight in gold.

Both of those incidents were "bites" that would never happen again"!