Dog bite or scratch?

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Hope you can help. This photo is on my toddler’s hip. My mum took her to a party with some dogs (wasn’t a kid party just adults lunch get together with a few other kids there).

my mum says a dog just jumped up at her but my toddler is saying the dog bit her?! Then saying he ‘jumped up’.
really not sure what this looks like? I feel awful how much pain she must have been in.

she is fine in herself but I still feel so guilty. Do you think mum is lying or was this likely just a dog jumping up?

That’s not the point of my post. I totally trust my mother to have my little one otherwise I wouldn’t have let her go! This is a completely isolated incident for us hence why I’m asking for opinions. To me that looks like a scratch but im
not sure as we dont have dogs

Thanks

To me, that looks like a scratch. My dog can do something similar to me and dh if we’re playing rough with him. Of course, I’m sure your child wasn’t playing rough so it is a little alarming.

thanks for looking at the photo. Toddler says it’s a bite then she says it scratched her.

lesson learnt

It looks like a bite

Thanks all

Show it to chat gpt

I will

I think it's a bite

This is what chat gbt says. However toddler is being quite specific about the dog, it was black and fluffy.. i feel so guilty

Another photo in bath thank you

Looks like a scratch to me. Honestly though, who on earth thinks dogs and toddlers at a high excitement event, probably involving food, was a good idea ?
A small bouncy dog would reach a toddler hip if jumping up, a bigger dog would probably have hit her face or knocked her clean over.
Do you know the people who were holding the party ? Do they also have small children ?

It’s a scratch and not a particularly bad one either. Looks like two small claws nicked her and won’t went in a bit deeper. These things always look worse on small children.

9/10 times, if a dog bites a toddler the toddler is ending up in A&E. If once a dog bites it wouldn’t then scratch after.

Sorry, but whilst I think this is very sad for your toddler, I’d be concerned about such an obvious lie being told about it. Dog bites are serious and no child, of any age, should lie.

Sorry, but whilst I think this is very sad for your toddler, I’d be concerned about such an obvious lie being told about it. Dog bites are serious and no child, of any age, should lie

That's what you take from this, wtf?
Child is a toddler, still learning words and it would have happened quickly. Toddler is not lying in the true sense of the word.

I would be cross at my mother, dogs and toddlers do not mix.

Yes, it is. Because lying about dog bites can have innocent dogs put to sleep and well as having consequences for the owner.

A lie is a lie.

There would be no consequences if the owner was looking after the dog, the dog should not have had the opportunity to hurt the toddler.

You are honestly ridiculous, this is a small child, a toddler who was hurt by a dog. Maybe the dog did bite her and the granny is playing it down.

But whatever happened, the toddler is explaining in their words what happened. That is not lying.

But I never said the dog owner was in the right either?

Everyone here was negligent. Although I highly doubt the granny is playing it down (when it is evidently a scratch from the photos and not a bite...). What would the granny gain from that? Nothing.

But the fact is, lies like this can have horrible repercussions. It's not ridiculous to point that out.

'The toddler is explaining in their words what happened.'

The toddlers words - saying the dog bit them - is a lie. You can't say it's not lying when it is. That's like saying the sky isn't blue and grass isn't green. 😂Just because you think a toddler doesn't realise what they are doing, doesn't mean the lie shouldn't be corrected. Now is a great time for OP to teach her child the risks about lying, and for the grandmother to realise that dogs and children don't mix.

Of course a granny would play it down, a dog biting a child is worse than a dog scratching one.

You don't know for certainty that the dog didn't bite, it is not possible to say 100%.

The child had a dog come up to them and hurt them. They know they were hurt, they think the dog bit them.

A lie is a false statement made with the intent to deceive, the toddler isn't trying to get the dog put down, there is no intent, it is what the child thinks happened.