Reply to What would you do-dog bite

Forum Index » Off-Topic

Reply to "What would you do-dog bite"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I was walking my dog on the sidewalk on our way to the dog park.  My dog is friendly and regularly goes up to other dogs for a sniff.  I was walking up the street and at about 20 feet I said to this guy walking his dog coming towards us, "He's really friendly."  He had time to say his dog wasn't or to move away from us.   My dog went up to his dog took one sniff and his dog bit my dog's ear.  I had to take my dog to the vet for stitches.  I also had to take him back for several bandage changes and because the ear was all wrapped up it got infected.  This guy paid 1/2 of the original bill and refuses to pay for more.  We feel that he actually should be paying for all the bills but we were willing to settle for 1/2.  The bills were sent in two different installments, the first bill and the bills for the bandage changes and the infection.

We did report him to animal control and he did have to take his dog in for observation and provide proof of vaccinations.

We are debating whether we should take him to small claims court.  On the one hand we feel like this guy ought to take full responsibility for his dog and he is being an a-hole and was an a-hole from the beginning.  On the other hand taking him to court seems so distasteful to me.  I would feel compelled to get statements from my neighbors and people at the dog park whose dogs play with mine saying that he is not an agressive dog.  I really hate that idea.  I don't really want to get others involved.  It's not their fight.

I know you will have to take my word for it that my dog is not agressive.  He isn't.  He is only a puppy (9 months) and doesn't even bark when someone comes to the door.  The balance of the bills is 600.  I'm trying to decide whether it is worth it.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics