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should I report dog

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Flute56 · 30/11/2019 10:45

I recently stayed with some people who have a rotweiller dog. I was concerned and asked if the dog was dangerous. They said no it has the personality of a labrador. However because they have a large property they have the dog as a guard dog. At first the dog was ok but then suddenly the dog went for me and I was very scared. Should I have reported the dog? What if the dog went after a child? It is all very well to say the dog as the personality of a labrador but if it a guard dog what is the use of that if there is an intruder? Because these people were so nice and upset at what happened which thankfully nothing serious happened I was reluctant to take matters further. However they said what I should have done was put my arms up and shouted down to the dog. This means that the dog has a tendency to be fierce because otherwise they would not have said that is the command when the dog gets over excited or comes at you so if the dog is as gentle as they first made out then why is the dog for guard purposes and why would the dog be trained to follow such a command and stop coming at you? They must know the dog can be unpredictable so they have trained it to follow the shouting down command but they said oh no our dog is fine and gentle. I almost said if the dog is so gentle it would be no good if there was an intruder because the dog would just roll over and expect the person to stroke it

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makingmammaries · 30/11/2019 22:13

It sounds like the dog did not injure you. I find it hard to understand why you would report the dog, which did not injure you on its own property, of some people who kindly hosted you. Just don’t go again if you are scared of large dogs.

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Flute56 · 01/12/2019 02:14

maybe I exaggerated about the chain. It was a very long chain so the dog could roam around the front of the property but not the back

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steff13 · 01/12/2019 02:22

Did it break the skin?

Booboostwo · 01/12/2019 03:27

So the chain was quite long...a bit like this thread?! 🤣

Butchyrestingface · 01/12/2019 03:34

You are being very imprecise here, OP. If you intend to report, you’d need to be a lot less vague.

Groovinpeanut · 01/12/2019 03:53

So you were invited to stay at someone's home. They had a dog that had a chew on your wrists and ankles. They put it on a short chain that then turned out to be a long chain, and you are considering reporting the dog? Hmm
Okaaaaay

GiveHerHellFromUs · 01/12/2019 04:12

If a Rottweiler only 'put it's mouth' around your wrists and ankles it's an incredibly well trained guard dog.

It didn't attack you. Don't report it.

You ask what happens if there's an intruder? Well that's the whole point of having a guard dog. If they want to trespass they need to accept the consequences.

EerieSilence · 01/12/2019 04:16

It’s a guard dog that reacted the way a guard dog is expected to react. What do you want to do, having the dog put to sleep for doing his or her job?

sanityisamyth · 01/12/2019 04:20

maybe I exaggerated about the chain. It was a very long chain so the dog could roam around the front of the property but not the back

On a three foot chain?

Littlemeadow123 · 01/12/2019 05:57

If a rottweiler wanted to do you damage, you'd have injuries, not just been mouthed. I agree that he sounds like he wanted to play. It's not great that his owners have allowed him to jump up at people though as a dog of that size can be intimidating and they should have got on top of that behaviour.

So no, I wouldn't report him.

GobletOfIre · 01/12/2019 07:50

My very small dog play fights by mouthing feet. It doesn’t hurt at all and frequently sneezes with excitement while doing it. Should I report it? Smile

adaline · 01/12/2019 08:06

Mouthing is extremely common behaviour in dogs - it's not the same as biting and shouldn't be treated as such.

Loopyloopy · 01/12/2019 08:16

The dog did not attack you. If it had wanted to hurt you, it would have done some significant damage. It was mouthing, which is a different kettle of fish entirely.

XXXXXX42 · 01/12/2019 08:19

My Bichon (small white fluffy dog) can easily bite through raw lamb leg bones. If he bit my wrist in anger he’d break the skin and cause a lot of damage. Rottweilers have far bigger jaws. A bite from one of those would do serious damage. My dog mouths wrists (puts your wrist in his mouth and licks it and gently chews it) as a sign of affection. He does this to my 5 yr old nephew and has never hurt anyone.

Being jumped on by other people’s large dogs can be scary if you aren’t used to dogs. However no growling, blood or wounds means this wasn’t an attack it was an enthusiastic greeting!

adaline · 01/12/2019 08:20

And yes like a PP said if a Rottweiler bit you, you'd know about it!

Littlemeadow123 · 01/12/2019 10:34

Just because they told you to wave your arms and shour does not mean that he is fierce. Waving your arms and shouting is a way to show a playful dog that you are the alpha and by using your tone of voice, you show him that you don't want him to do something - in this case you didn't want him to jump up.

mencken · 01/12/2019 10:43

god knows what actually happened here. For info, any dog that bites or even if you think it is going to bite is a dog defined as 'dangerously out of control' and is a police matter.

nothing will be done (been there) due to lack of resources so you have to wait until it seriously injures or kills, or it attacks the owners and they finally see sense.

SilverySurfer · 01/12/2019 15:16

By you refusing to reply to those of us asking what, if any, damage the dog did to you, ie bite marks through skin and/or blood, we must assume neither and so you have nothing to report.

You're fortunate you weren't my friend's DM who visited her and her husband and during the night went looking for the bathroom. Their alsatian attacked her, locked it's jaws round her arm and wouldn't let go, even when the husband tried to remove it. In the end he wrapped cheese cutting wire around the alsatian's neck and killed it. The DM's arm was in a terrible mess and obviously had the dog still been alive it would have been put down, never mind reported.

TopBitchoftheWitches · 01/12/2019 15:26

Silverysurfer, what an awful way to treat a dog they had brought up. I hope you are talking shit.

Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady · 01/12/2019 16:01

Cheese wire?!! Jesus.

SilverySurfer · 02/12/2019 01:20

No I am not in the habit of talking shit. It was either that or the mother's arm be ripped off. Of course the husband didn't want to do it, he tried to pull the dog off but his jaw was locked on the DM's arm.
He had him from a puppy and really loved him. He cried his eyes out and never got over it - refused to ever have another dog.

An ambulance took the DM to hospital, she lost a lot of blood, her arm was mangled, neves severed etc.

What would you have done if abig, strong dog had its jaws locked around the arm of one of your family? Your child maybe?

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Flute56 · 02/12/2019 13:05

ok so what if I had been pushed over by the dog and broken a bone? I have osteoperosis. A couple of years ago I fell over and broke my pelvis and was in hospital for a week. My initial thoughts were what if I had fallen over and done something similar and ended up in hospital?

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Butchyrestingface · 02/12/2019 13:09

ok so what if I had been pushed over by the dog and broken a bone?

What are you asking - whether you’d be entitled to report the dog if it had pushed you over and you’d broken a bone?

messolini9 · 02/12/2019 13:12

ok so what if I had been pushed over by the dog and broken a bone?

But you didn't, so that's ok.
And you won't, simply by not visiting again.

Having spent the entire thread conspicuously NOT answering questions about whether the dog used his teeth, whether your skin was broken, or even if you sustained any injuries at all & not got the answers you seem to be looking for, you are now inventing hypothetical situations to outrage yourself about.

You might feel happier forgetting all about That Fated Visit, & maybe instead focusing on how to feel a little more comfortable around strange dogs. There are some effective solutions for that, upthread.

Chlosavxox · 02/12/2019 13:15

@Flute56 yeah but you didn't break a bone so I don't see what your point is? The poor dog didn't do any damage and was either giving a warning (because trust me, if it wanted to attack you it would) or was playing. But either way it didn't draw blood or seriously hurt you, it clearly knows boundaries otherwise it wouldn't of stopped.

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