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Injuries inflicted or caused by your dog

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FinallyMovingHouse · 01/02/2026 14:18

I have a much loved idiot of a dog (hound, almost 60 kg) and until recently the worst injury I'd had was a bit of shoulder soreness, mildly black eye and sore head after headbutting me.
In the last 2 days however, he's given me a concussion (dragging me into a tree when chasing a squirrel, despite being on a dogmatic halter) and then the next day a torn tricep and re-injured rotator cuff, due to pulling me after another squirrel in a strange direction.

I would definitely think twice about getting a genetically predisposed chaser again and certainly one of this size.

Please make me feel better with similar stories of woe.

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Pinotpivot · 01/02/2026 14:23

FinallyMovingHouse · 01/02/2026 14:18

I have a much loved idiot of a dog (hound, almost 60 kg) and until recently the worst injury I'd had was a bit of shoulder soreness, mildly black eye and sore head after headbutting me.
In the last 2 days however, he's given me a concussion (dragging me into a tree when chasing a squirrel, despite being on a dogmatic halter) and then the next day a torn tricep and re-injured rotator cuff, due to pulling me after another squirrel in a strange direction.

I would definitely think twice about getting a genetically predisposed chaser again and certainly one of this size.

Please make me feel better with similar stories of woe.

Less so these days but we once fostered a dog that was fantastic at getting in the way.
He was never actually doing anything wrong, but I managed to break plates, throw all sorts of things and repeatedly fall over him.

He was a silent assassin so would just appear quietly near you and make you jump so you would over react. It was like we were in a carry on film. We never mentioned it because we assumed we were just very jumpy people but then His new home told us that she had a big fall on ice because he appeared unexpectedly next to here and she had turned abruptly.

My current foster is fantastic at bashing you in the back of the knees, just the right height to immediately fold you. I will be grateful when hes grown a bit more so its not so fatal

PocketSand · 01/02/2026 14:51

My now departed two Doberman’s were playing chase and came hurtling behind me on a fairly narrow path in the local country park. I tried to dodge out of the way but was too late and one of them clipped me and tore my calf muscle. Whilst I was clinging to a tree trying not to pass out from the pain my abusive twat of a STBEX walked off back to the car (the car park was up a steep hill) and left me to it!

NippyNinjaCrab · 01/02/2026 15:00

I've had so many bashing bruises from my 2 galoot boys! Most recent was a spectacular calf bruise from the pup banging into my leg and his harness felt it had torn the muscle off!!
I've had a bloody nose, lips like Jackie Stallone, bruised shoulders etc.
Ah the joys of the no spatial awareness mutts!

garlictwist · 01/02/2026 15:02

60kg?! That’s insane. Weighs more than a person.

blablablah · 01/02/2026 15:10

My darling 30kg golden retriever decided that she needed to dart in front of me from left to right, after a cat. I was running at the time and holding onto her lead. I fell full on my left arm underneath me and cracked at least 1 rib. Agony for weeks and weeks.

GoodBones85 · 01/02/2026 15:11

I have a small crossbreed who so far hasn’t injured us at all.

BUT my friend has a huge Visla and once on a walk he was running, I was walking and we misjudged each other and he knocked me clean off my feet. It was comical I was fully in the air. Landed in a heap. He didn’t mean it bless him he was just bounding about a field having fun.

Mariets · 01/02/2026 15:19

I stepped over my Scottie while he was asleep. He jumped straight up, I lost my balance and my right foot came down at an awkward angle. I had an operation with screws on one side, and a metal plate in the other. I now have two longish scars on my ankle, and it throbs when it's cold even thought it was 20 years ago.

intrepidpanda · 01/02/2026 15:25

Please dont take your dog to anywhere it can chase other animals. That is horrible.

KStockHERO · 01/02/2026 15:29

I currently have a bit of a black eye from the dog fully headbutting me.

She's a 7kg terrier but with a head made of concrete.

She didn't even flinch. Twat.

FrothyCothy · 01/02/2026 15:29

intrepidpanda · 01/02/2026 15:25

Please dont take your dog to anywhere it can chase other animals. That is horrible.

This would mean never leaving the house. The dog was on a lead.

Most squirrels seem to take great delight in being in eyeline but out of reach to maximise the amount it winds the dog up.

SooooAIBU · 01/02/2026 15:32

Broken nose. We had only had her a couple of weeks and she was a nervous rescue and not a good traveller. We went to the vets and I opened the boot to let her out whilst reaching down to grab her lead at the same time. She leapt out of the car straight into my face - all 32kg of her. I was very shocked and dazed and blood was pouring everywhere!

Our dog before her was also a rescue. Her previous owners rehomed her after she pulled the woman over and broke her ankle!

muddyford · 01/02/2026 15:33

Black eye.
Bloody nose.
Being pulled over when muddypup ran from left to right, on his lead. Skinned knees and elbows as in summer clothing.

AelinAG · 01/02/2026 15:34

Two black eyes from a head butt via a corgi who just really wanted to tell me he loved me.

It unfortunately happened the day before a safeguarding training session where they talked about non accidental injuries and listed double black eyes as one haha

Wakemeupinapril · 01/02/2026 15:44

Dislocated knee.. Rottweiler didn't realise it was me behind the washing I was hanging out. Launched herself at me.

TheNightingalesStarling · 01/02/2026 15:55

We once dogsat for a young Springer Spaniel. His owner was a 6.5ft well built young man. He was used to a lot of runs etc, and physical play. And sleeping on his owners bed.

I was covered in bruises by the end of the week from being jumped on, pulled over, sat on etc. He was used to hours of physical exercise... then a long nap in the office.

Lovely animal. Not used to woman and children

cobrakaieaglefang · 01/02/2026 16:05

My twat had the zoomies down a steep gravel path. She was on a longline which before I could get out the way wrapped around my legs, pulled me off my feet and dragged me down the slope face first. Ironically we were having a walk before meeting a dog trainer..I limped back to the car park looking like I'd been beaten up!

ChurchWindows · 01/02/2026 16:22

My friend's saluki was savaged by a mastiff being walked by a woman who wasn't strong enough to control it.

Her dog went for the saluki, pulled its owner over, dragged her along until it dislocated her shoulder, she let go of the lead and my friend's husband had to prise the animal off of his dog. The poor animal was in a terrible state.

Stupid bloody mastiff owner ended up with an injury and a massive vet's bill.

Whenever I see someone struggling with a dog that's too strong or big for them I wonder who'll be on the receiving end of it if it goes wrong.

Fgfgfg · 01/02/2026 16:30

I had a large cyst on my temple and the GP was still deciding what to do. I was in bed asleep when our lovely dog decided to jump on my head put her claw straight into the cyst and burst it. Healed very well and I only have a small scar.

exLtEveDallas · 01/02/2026 16:41

In the 14 years we had the MuttDog I:
Twisted my knee
Bit a hole in my tongue
Lost a tooth
And in her last year or so I inexplicably became allergic to her - didn't realise it until she was gone and my year long persistent cough and blocked sinuses suddenly went as well...
(she was still worth it and I miss her 2 years on ❤️)

Crwysmam · 01/02/2026 16:57

My lovely Labrador jump on the bed one Boxing Day, she misjudged it and caught my eye with a claw. I have a scar Fortunately it healed rapidly without becoming infected.
on my upper eyelid as a result. As it was Boxing Day I didn’t fancy a 6hour wait in minor injuries to have it glued so did a bit of DIY with steri strips.

FuzzyBumbleeBee · 01/02/2026 19:48

Previous dog gave me a concussion as I bent down to pick up his poo

My dbs dog broke my hand jumping up to say hi, not a bone break but he damaged the cartilage/tendons so badly that it dosent work the same any more, one of my fingers hangs rather uselessly because of it.

Current dogs the worst is a puppy nip or standing on my toes

MrsLizzieDarcy · 01/02/2026 19:55

I've got a maniac of a cocker spaniel who is only just starting to slow down at 12, and he felled me the other week by running straight into the back of my knees. I didn't even feel the fall it was so quick. My daughter was walking her dog with us and couldn't help me up for laughing Hmm I was absolutely filthy from mud, and the bloody dog stood looking at me with his head to one side as if to say "WTF are you doing Mum".

XMissPlacedX · 01/02/2026 20:29

Me and DH always joke that if one of us comes home and finds the other dead in the kitchen having fallen over and cracked their head on the tiled floor, that it will be because of our beagle. She is a rescue and is a little scatty due to her previous life. She just walks in front of you, then gets scared and changes direction about 5 times before running off.

Moll2020 · 01/02/2026 21:17

34kg Labrador, when she was finishing her first season, I took her out on a long line lead. She wrapped herself around my legs, I fell over but ended up with long line burns across both shins.

hereismydog · 01/02/2026 21:38

His head collided directly with my nose piercing and jammed the back of it into my septum. That bled like hell!

Got the zoomies and jumped across my legs like a hurdle but caught my thigh with a dew claw on his way over. I have a 10cm scar from that one!

Stood squarely on DP’s balls whilst climbing over him on the sofa to look out of the window Grin

The worst dog-related injury I had was a cracked rib from a very excitable Lab running up behind me and body slamming the back of my legs, knocked me off the sea wall and onto the stony beach 6 feet below. I looked up to see my dog, the Lab and the Lab’s owner all peering over the wall at me GrinGrinGrin

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