Come home from work and my daughter has a mild dog bite on her foot. DH didn’t even know anything about it?!

[Browndoor25]

Honestly don’t know if I am overreacting or what but I am really quite cross that he didn’t even know it was there. I spent literally five minutes with her when I get in and I noticed it. He’s had her in the bath tonight and everything and he didn’t see it. I don’t understand how someone can be so unobservant. We have a young boisterous dog, and he’s nipped her foot.. it’s superficial but it has broken the skin slightly. I know it’s not a proper bite but that’s not the point really, is it? Apparently she told him when it happened, and he asked if she was ok but didn’t think to check her foot. This man just doesn’t seem to think. At my wits end.

If she's young enough to need to be bathed by an adult then she definitely shouldn't be unsupervised around a dog. You and your husband are asking for trouble there.
An adult needs to not just be in the room/house, but actively managing interactions between small children and dogs.

You aren’t overreacting.

He shouldn’t have let the dog be in a position to bite her foot in the first place and definitely should have checked.

What is he planning to do to make sure his daughter is safe in the future?

Think we'd need a picture before we judge just how unobservant he is!
If it is a slight mark eg not bad enough to require any kind of first aid, then can't see why it matters.
If it is bad enough it should have been cleaned wtc then yes. But honestly it sounds quite minor.

She wasn’t left unsupervised, they were all in the kitchen together apparently.

So how was the dog able to bite her?

She didn't cry? Or? If she cried how would he not notice it? Sh*t happens

If it’s broken the skin she’ll need antibiotics. I got nipped by a dog once when out running and they gave me a two week course even though it was a tiny little bite.

Just being in the same room isn't supervision.

How old is your child?

Why or how did the dog bite her?

The adult clearly wasn't actually managing the interaction at all.

Any bitefrom a human or an animal that breaks the skin must be taken for medical assessment.
Soft tissue infection is a risk and can gallop away to serious illness.
Please take the child to a and e.

She’s four, almost five. I don’t know exactly what happened. I need to do some digging. Dog likes to take her socks off, she finds it funny.. he might have been trying to do that but didn’t realise she didn’t have socks on if you see what I mean. Dog only just turned 1 so at that annoying teenage phase.

This is not funny. The dog bite isn't superficial. Its a real bite that broke the skin from the dog being aggressive.
Wake up to your terminology and the fact your pet is aggressive and needs separation from children until its fully trained

He isn’t supervising if he wasn’t aware. You cannot allow “games” like taking socks off. You’re lucky this time it wasn’t more serious.

Invest in dog training, keep the dog separate, and get your husband to read up on how to supervise a child and dog.

We don't have dogs but I definitely hear about it if the cat so much as scratches one of the kids! How did your DD not react to an actual BITE?!

Definitely need to have some rules in place around the dog then.
No taking off socks.
4 year old shouldn't be on the floor with a boisterous nippy dog.
Adult needs to be actively supervising/managing all the time the dog and child are interacting.

Boisterous/nippy/undertrained is not the same as aggressive.
Yes, proper supervision and training of dog and child is needed but nothing suggests an aggression issue and being dramatic doesn't help anything.

Surely teaching your dog a ‘game’ involving taking (biting) socks off feet is a recipe for disaster?!

Nowhere does the OP suggest that the dog was being aggressive.

Dogs have teeth, they use them for various things, including things like tugging at clothing, mouthing to solicit attention, nibbling to mutually groom someone giving scritches and much much more.

Damage from teeth on human skin does NOT automatically = 'an aggressive dog' nor a bite as a result of aggression.

And yes damage can be superficial, why would the fact that a dogs teeth did it prevent an injury from being superficial?

@Browndoor25 Your DH needs to supervise better, dogs and small children need active supervision, not passive 'we're in the same room' supervision. And he should have checked!

Games like 'pull off my socks' need to be put under cue control quickly so that accidents like this don't happen - that cue control should be strong enough and with a cue a small child does not know, so that the dog can't be encouraged by a child to do something dangerous in that particular context (the number of accidents I have seen that began with a child cuing a dog to do something thats safe with an adult but NOT safe with a kid is unreal, people forget that children see what they do, copy it and don't realise the risks!)

Is it definitely a bite or could it be scratched from a claw?
If the skin’s broken and it’s been a while until it was cleaned see your gp or call 111 for advice and possibly out of hours appointment
I wouldn't rock up at A and E without trying 111 first as 111 / out of hours will probably be quicker

Please check the NHS advice for bites as I think it says you need advice if hands, feet or head are bitten and I guess your DC hasn’t had a tetanus jab? Definitely needs close monitoring if nothing else.

No dog is ever safe alone / unmonitored with a child ..no matter how adorable the dog..biting games are a no no

This! Stop letting your dog play stupid games with your young child.