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[quote=Anonymous]My son was bitten by a German Shepard while running (he’s 12, running with his sports team, they had gotten spread out but there was a witness behind him).  A long story but the dog was identified and his vaccinations not up to date.  Bites were in arm and upper back thigh and are healing fine but definitely a lot of stress as we had to identify dog, medicine to prevent infection, consultation about necessity of rabies vaccine, etc etc).

We spoke to owner who expressed concern about our son but hasn’t apologized or really acknowledged fault that dog was out of control and vaccinations not up to date.  He also sent a follow up text message to my husband which was pretty incomprehensible but seemed to imply that our son wasn’t telling us the full story of how the bite happened (although there was another kid running behind my son who corroborated his story plus he’s told the story 7-8 times to school, police and medical professionals without variation, plus he has absolutely no reason to lie bc even if he was trying to pet the dog or anything we wouldn’t have gotten upset with him and he loves dogs and certainly would not have been harassing it or anything even if he had the time - which he didn’t bc he was trying to get back to school bc it was a timed run).

I guess my question is for dog owners, how would you react in this situation? We certainly don’t want to sue and my son is fine, but I am pretty angry that there isn’t more remorse and that now the owner is trying to shift blame.  Am I wrong in thinking / wanting a different response?  I also feel some sort of obligation to figure out a repercussion for the owner so they are incentivized to take steps for this not to happen to another kid.

Input or comments? Is there anything that we can / should be doing that isn’t over the top like a lawsuit?

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