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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you know your dog is a biter, why do you keep it?[/quote]

You don’t “know” your dog is a biter until it actually bites.

We had a dog that we knew was anxious and didn’t get on well with other dogs, so we were careful about keeping her away from other dogs.  When she was about ten, I was on my front stoop with her and we were both surprised when a guy on a skateboard whizzed down our street seemingly out of nowhere.  The dog jumped the gate - which I didn’t even know she was capable of doing - and bit the guy on the knee.  He wasn’t seriously hurt but the bite did puncture the skin so I insisted that I take the guy to urgent care.   I was horrified.  The guy on the skateboard was completely calm and understanding, however.  When urgent care told us that the bite needed to be reported to animal control, we did as we were told but the skateboarder essentially refused to “press charges” when interviewed and told animal control that he startled the dog and it was all his fault.  I remember him telling me “I’m new to DC.  I didn’t come here to put somebody’s dog down.”

To this day we are good friends and we laugh when telling people how we met.

If you’re thinking that I should have gotten rid of a senior dog who under these circumstances bit for the first time, I don’t know what to tell you. [/quote]

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