Well for those of you who haven’t heard, Sean was bitten. Yes I said bitten, and it was by a dog. Our neighbors have a boxer that they apparently adopted about 6months to a year ago from the Boxer Rescue of Austin. While a good deed the dog came from an abused home and has not been trained at all. He has jumped on Sean before and he constantly barks during the day when I’m here.

Well anyway, last Wednesday Sean noticed they were out and our neighbors were not home. In an effort to be neighborly Sean went down the street to try to bring them back to fence them up. Well they were following him (its a boxer and a pug) and then the boxer got up in his man area to “play” and proceeded to bit him on his inner left thigh. When I saw what happened I was furious for two reasons (a) now Sean will not feel comfortable in our yard, which is his home and he should feel somewhat safe in that area, and (b) I wanted a dog! While taking Sean to get stitches he said that while he had been debating it, he was going to have to think a lot longer on it after this.

We went home and there were words with the police, our neighbors, and animal control. The dog has been quarantined for eleven days, but will be back early next week. I understand having a pet and I am trying really hard to see it from their perspective. Its their pet, a part of the family, and they love him, though they also have small children and I would personally put the dog down if it was mine as I wouldn’t trust it around my children after that. Oh well the police, animal control, and our HOA can take care of this.

If you’re squeamish don’t hit read on as I’m posting a photo of the stitched up bite… the un-stitched up photo is way to gross to post.

He should be fine in the end. Just a bit scared of dogs for a while. He gets his stitches out Thursday. Poor guy.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 at 10:59 am.