Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Ever have a Dog that Bit the Vet?

Can't be as bad as mule kicking the vet. That is leg or hip breaking time.

I'd take a dog bite any day vs two mule feet in my chest.I took only one in the belt buckle that put me on the ground for an hour

Had a 10 lb Norwich Terrier that was fine with the vet until he had to go into an ear for cheatgrass. After that she was out to get him. Even if he showed up in other venues, she would hear his voice and come out on the fight.

Yes Old Tucker bit the vet but Tucker would not leave teeth marks in a stick of hot butter. He had a home with us for about a year and he had been passed around from home to home like a redheaded step child so he had social issues with anyone he did not know and he would taste all comers.

A beagle/doxen ankle biter and the only biting dog I've ever been around that I let live but like I said he just tasted and never bit but he thought he was tearing that ass up. Really funny. The UPS guy had him figured and would just stand there and carry on a conversation with you while old Tucker was gnawing on him. The Fed-ex guy gave him dog biscuits so they were great pals.

The poor guy was a city dog all his life until he came here. Overweight so bad he could not walk to the mailbox and back without resting he soon got the hang of country life and followed his nose til he was slim and trim. Rats and gophers were his main game and I laughed myself silly one morning watching him try to sneak up on deer out back at the feeder. The deer ended up chasing him around.

The best year of his life was here with us but we could not keep him from chasing the occasional car or truck that comes down our dead end dirt road and he finally caught one...

RIP Tuck

I'm all on board with my dog always being my responsibility, but ain't about to shoot myself over a bit vet.


As has been pointed out. It's your dog. You know him best. Next time show up with him muzzled.

Had a hound that was chewed up pretty bad from a bear, the dog was out, bloody, and looked dead when I got to the vet and I carried him in and they put him on the table,, the vet started examining his throat and the dog came to life and I had to pull him off of the vets arm. Vet ended up with a lot of bruising and some small punctures/tears.

I felt bad about it but I really thought the dog was about dead as did the vet,, neither one of them harbored any bad feelings and they were buddies afterwards just as before.

Also had a cat in a crate that sounded like a pissed off puma,, told the vet she needed gloves and a towel to get that cat out but she tried the sweet talk approach and was severely nailed. I had told her that I had resorted to a fishnet to get the darn thing in there! The cat was cool with hanging around the place outside and getting her belly scratched but did not want picked up. It lived another 6-7 years catching rats and running all other cats off but it always was a rodeo at vet time. The same cat slept in the dog houses with the dogs and was very friendly with all the other critters on the farm, just did not want picked up or confined

My wife is a vet tech. It is very tempting to just go down and hang out with my 22/45 and shoot a lot of the stupid phugking animals people bring in. Absolutely no manners, to the point of being dangerous. "Fido is an angel he'd NEVER hurt anybody. Heck he's never even growled before"

A lot of stupid damned owners and a lot of stupid damned dogs.

+1

I keep hoping my GSP will bite his vet so I can kiss it and make it better. She is smoking hot.

Ass biter, huh?

I used to have a cat that required dressing in a heavy canvas jacket and welding gloves for a vet visit. Gummer hated the vet.

U I woulda used to had it too.

had the same thing happen with my German sheperd Ranger.

I've got a stupid vet experience for you. Two young female techs are supposed to clip my dog's nails. They put a muzzle on her that's too big, so the top part is actually in contact with my dog's eyes. I tell the techs this, expecting them to realize their error, apologize, take it off and replace it with a correctly sized one. Instead, they poo poo my complaint, saying that there's no way it's touching her eyes. The dog is now going nuts because leather is rubbing on her eyes, and bright red blood starts dripping out of one of them. I now tell them in no uncertain terms to take it off, and they do. Now realizing their error, they get the vet to come in and look at the eye injury. He comes in, looks at the eye, applies some ointment, giving me the remainder of the tube to be applied twice a day, but here's the incredible part: He then adds to my bill (which was supposed to be a mere nail clipping) the examination and prescription for an eye injury. I asked him if he was joking. He insisted that he didn't have the authority to provide services and medications for free. I explained to him what happened, and he still refused to take it off the bill.

lol was this the schutzen trained doberman or one of your pits?

I have had a number of dogs that would stand and take whatever the Vet had to do just because they were told to take it. One of my setters got into it really bad with a porcupine and before I got all the quills out I lost four inside under the skin. I called the Vet on the way back home from hunting an when I got there she agreed to try to get them out. The first thing she did knowing the dog was to ask did we need anesthesia or could she just go ahead. He just stood there and made like she didn't even exist until she was done cutting and digging.

I train all my dogs to come to me and lay down on the floor on their back between my legs and present their feet for nail trimming. It's not hard to do. I only ever had one dog that wasn't going to comply, and him I just took a couple leads and snapped his head and hips to the chain link kennel fence so he was up on his tippy toes and then I just did it without fuss.

My Doberman passed away back in the 1990s at the age of twelve. Wonderful boy. I'd give nearly anything to have him back.

My last Pitbull passed away about five years ago, at about the same age.

The dog in the vet story above was a mix I adopted from the shelter. She was already a year and a few months old when I got her. No telling what she went through before that.

Neither of my Pitbulls (nor my Doberman) ever needed a muzzle at the vet. They were happy go lucky dogs that were affectionate towards everyone. The Doberman would attack on command, but only due to training (not schutzhund .. just regular protection training). He loved being friendly towards people, but his training involved teaching him that, although most people are good, not everybody is (which is what he assumed before he started training).

NVT... New Vet Time...

That'll teach em to pay attention when you warn em to muzzle him. In answer to the title question, never had a dog do that. But in high school, I had a show pig bite the crap outa the vet's leg when he stuck a thermometer in the pigs butt.

I have a 90+ lb doberman. He has some protective tendencies and is definitely capable of doing real damage. When we go to the vet, I ask for a muzzle and put it on myself.

I too am amazed at dumb people who approach dogs without getting the ok from the owner or letting the dog get a read on you and vice-versa.

Was at petsmart with my daughter and her brand new puppy. I had my doberman also. Was paying the cashier. My daughter is holding her pup, I have mine on a leash back away just a bit. Cashier asks if he can give the dog a treat as he looks at my daughter's pup. I said sure. Gives the puppy a treat and instantly turns and steps toward my daughter hand extending.

My dog is extremely hard to read, and at the time, it scared the crap out of me because he had the look like he was about to remove this guy's hand from his arm. Luckily for him, my dog was just intent on getting that treat. I was shocked an employee at petsmart didn't know any better.

Bite their ass