What Kind of Dog Has Bitten You?

I was never bitten as a child. Hardly anyone I knew growing up had dogs.

As an adult, I've been bitten while breaking up fights (not redirected aggression, literally getting in the middle of two fighting dogs). Conrad was involved on two occaisions and the first he was fighting with a neighbor chocolate lab and the second he was fighting with Marlowe and it's hard to say what combination of those three dogs did what biting. It was entirely my fault for not being smarter about breaking up the fights.

I've never been bitten.  And, what's so amazing is that as a child a shepard mix that the kids next door that I played with daily owned would follow us everywhere.  As a teenager, my best friend had a pure GSD that was around us all the time.  One of my good friends, grandmother had a pit bull that I was always around too.

A toy poodle, an australian shepherd, and a rottie.  Thankfully not all at once or on the same day!

I was not qu9ite, don't remember, but my Mom said an irish Setter bit me--but didn't break the skin, just made like dents that went away very quickly,.  She also said I deserved to be be bitten because if they turned their back for a second i was after that dog.
 
Boy of my sons have been bitten by German Shepherds and neither provoked the attack.  My one son, about 13 riding in the middle of the neighbornood street throwing papers, the dog jumped the fece and got him on the back of the high.  A single bite.  Ron, as we later found out, was the 3rd one the dog had bitten.  A few months later he got his 4th and last kid.  he did a number on Billy's skinny little leg and was PtS.  Ron required stitches in his leg.
 
Randy was 5 we were at a company picnic, me in a lawn chair, him on the ground in front of me, we were eating, the VP's shepherd walked by, someone tossed a bone, it actually bounced off Randy and the dog nailed him in the face.  He also required medical treatment and 3 months after the bite developed staph infection in the scare below his hairline and it took another 2 months to clear that up.  Oh, we later learned the dog was food aggessive and i can ony think the VP a total idiot for bringing it to a compnay picnic with lots of food AND kids.

edit to include above post:
So if we took the data that we have so far collected we could determine that some of the dog breeds below are dangerous dogs? I think this shows that the breed is not always the problem as who in their right mind would put any of these breed in the dangerous dog category (except perhaps the GSD as they were once thought of as dangerous)
Irish Setter 1
Shitz Tsu  2
Chihuahua 4
Dachshund 2
JRT 2
St Bernard 1
Yorkie 1
Lab 3
Unknown Terrier 1
Shetland sheepdog 2
Mini Poodle 3
Great Dane 1
Unknown 2
GSD 6
Bulldog 1
Standard Poodle 1
Austrailian Shepherd 1
Rott  1

Now mind you the data we have collected has no serious injuries and probably just one that could have been (the GSD that was show after stalking and attacking a child) and I know that the ability to do damage is greater in the larger, stronger breeds, but still even a simple exersise like this should be able to show that ALL dogs can and do bite, and that ANY dog can be dangerous if the circumstances are right.
 
Based on just the data (pretend you have not read the stories) can we assume that GSD's and
Chihuahuas are dangerous dogs? Should I cross the street when I see one coming?
 
Keep the posts coming and I will update the data as we go.

I've been bitten by a LOT of dogs. When I was 2, I was badly bitten by a Spitz. I'd played with the dog, many times. It had a bone, and was lying across the yard. I said "Bye, doggy!" and it ran over and grabbed my by the throat. It was shot by it's owner.

At 9, a Peke got a bone and I picked him up while it was in his mouth. He got my hand.

As an adult, and dog groomer, I've been bitten by quite a few dogs. My worst bites have been inflicted by a cat, and by Emma (redirected aggression during a dog fight, my fault, not hers). Just yesterday, a little scruffy coated mutt bit me, and I jabbed my wrist with my straight shears. That bled like you wouldn't believe, but the bite didn't break the skin, LOL. Once I learned not to pull away from a bite, they really started doing minimal damage (a LOT of dogs bite while you're trimming nails).

i worked at a vet clinic and there i was bitten by a chi, an aussie, and a lab--but i wouldn't count those because they were afraid.
 
i've only been hardcore bitten by a cocker.

I was bitten by a miniature poodle who's owners brought it to me to be groomed, put her in the crate themselves and left, never saying one word to me about this dog's temperament.  I went to take her out of the crate and she attacked.  This was the only dog I was never able to groom.  Had I known, I could have muzzled her before putting her in the crate.  When the owners picked her up, they said that they couldn't get near her to groom her either!  People!!
 
The other was one of the sweetest afghan hounds ever to live.  He got his paw caught outside and I heard him screaming.  Went running out and right up to him, totally without thinking, and of course, this dog in pain bit me!  My fault, 100%.  He got his own foot unstuck and came hobbling up to me for sympathy.

GSD as a toddler. I was eating a popsicle on my front steps with my older brother and mom was standing nearby talking to someone. Loose GSD apparently wanted the popsicle. I was bit on the face right over the eye--still have scar under my eyebrow which never grew back properly.
 
Neighbor's dachshund bit me on hand and wrist as a teenager. Once again I was sitting.
 
So far 100% of my bites happened when I was sitting---obviously sitting is dangerous.[] 

Two GSDs, a Doberman and a BC.  The first GSD and the Dobie bit me in the same place--left wrist.  I have indentations in my wrist from the bites. The BD got my right wrist.  She had gotten wrapped up in a leash and I was untangling her. She was scared and let go as soon as she clamped down.  I do NOT blame her in theis case.

I've only been bitten by smaller dogs.  Two different chis, one pom, and a cocker*.  My worst wounds have always come from cats!  Growing up, my friends/neighbors always had medium/large dogs, but I always remember being gnawed on by the little dogs.
 
 
*Someone in our family has a pair of HA/DA/submissive-peeing cockers.  Great fun at family gatherings.
 
 
 

I#%92ve only been bitten by one dog, but it happened repeatedly. An ex-friend#%92s Chihuahua. (No, we stopped being friends for a totally different reason.) The dog, named Obey (pronounced Oh-bee, not like it#%92s spelled) attacked every person other than the (teenaged) owner, including the owner's arents and siblings. I was never injured badly by him, but it was still irritating, especially because she encouraged it by coddling him about it, and cooing over his behavior. After the second visit to her house I stopped trying to make nice with the dog, and instead just kept him away from me. (Which his owner didn't help to do at all, and would chastise me for not wanting a snarling, snapping dog on my lap. Go figure.)

Darn I fear a Chihuahua ban is in the works! (just kidding)
 
 Lorib can you clarify what a BC/BD is? is that a border collie or a bull dog or one of each?

I was bitten by a Shar-Pei at my relative's house. I was a small child. The dog had a bone but it was covered up with its paws, and I walked over to the dog, reached down to let it sniff me and pet it, and it bit me and drew blood.
 
I know the dog was guarding its bone, but that is something I never allow in my dogs.
 
 

I was bitten by a Chihuahua once as a child, while at a friend's house. Didn't break the skin or anything, though.