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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  The gathering was at my parents' house.  The dog has been there a lot and is very happy there.  (There's a lot of room to run.)  It's out of town so the only other option would have been to kennel her.  The difference this time was the volume of people. My dad yells to me informing me that the dog was inside the house (everyone else was outside), and then a few minutes later I hear yelling about the bite.  Apparently someone let her out of the house.  If there is a "next time," we will have to keep her locked up where someone can't casually let her out.    She hates the crate but we may have to start using it regularly.  We'll see what the behaviorist said.  My family has had several GSDs and this is the first biting incident for any of them.  They are a real handful and I would never get one again unless I lived in a very different environment.   [/quote]

You said you told people she "needed space" and has a hard time with groups, so by saying that you demonstrated that you KNEW there is a risk with this dog. Many years ago, my sister took her kids and my DS to a haunted farm/corn maze place. They were in some kind of building shortly before they were going to leave, there was an older farm-type dog (no particular breed), DS reached down to stroke her fur, caught his fingers in fur tangled in some burrs, and she went for him. Even though he had a pretty heavy jacket he had two very ugly wounds and required 12 stitches total. Shortly after a girl with a church group tried to pet the dog and also got bit. She got a big settlement because she was bite #2. For a variety of reasons I did not pursue a legal case, although some years later was told by a lawyer it would be hard since DS had the first bite. But my sister was told by other people there (the guy's neighbors) that the dog had hip problems and arthritis and pain. Anyway, it showed terrible judgment to put the dog in the position of hundreds of people a night coming through this farm.

See what the behaviorist has to say but especially how socialization is to be handled and what kinds of situations the dog can be allowed to be in. Based on that, you'll have to figure out whether you can provide what the dog needs and if not, find out what alternatives there are for the dog besides euthanasia. [/quote]

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