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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This may seem like overkill, but I’d take  her to an urgent care to get the wound cleaned really well and perhaps get a course of antibiotics. Dogs’ mouths are very dirty and it’s easy to get an infection if the bite has drawn blood. (Speaking from personal experience of dog bite on ankle requiring multiple shots, a doctor to debride and clean. I started out just doing neosporin but it kept hurting and not healing so i went finally 2 weeks later. Won’t make that mistake again)[/quote]

+1  I agree.

Your poor DD. Are we sure it was a black lab and not a "black lab"?  That sounds out of character for a lab.  [/quote]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/dog-breed-most-likely-to-attack-bite-you-revealed-a7166296.html

[quote]The dog most likely to attack has been revealed and it may come as a surprise.

The family favourite labrador is responsible for the highest number of canine attack personal injury claims, according to research by pet insurers Animal Friends.

And man's best friend is often postman's worst enemy with allmost a third of incidents involving delivery workers and postal staff.[/quote]

https://www.denverpost.com/2009/02/26/dog-bite-survey-finds-few-canines-that-attack/
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Of the 2,060 bites, Labrador retrievers made up the biggest percentage on the bite list.

Labs accounted for 13.3 percent of the reported bites; pit bulls, 8.4 percent; German shepherds, 7.8 percent; Rottweilers, 3.9 percent; and Chows, 3.5 percent.[/quote]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-takes-down-mirrors-home-20333269

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/local-news/woman-dog-mauled-labrador-popular-6020778

etc

This is probably because there are a lot of labs, not because there is anything wrong with labs as a type of dog - they're great dogs. But you should never use breed as a way to think this dog is safe, this one is dangerous - it's a bad proxy, and that's how you get hurt. Any dog can bite. Big dogs' bites can be more serious.

There's all kinds of problems with breed ID in any of these surveys. But these are the breeds that are reported, FWIW.[/quote]

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