Has anyone ever been bit by a dog?

[Theresa]

I work at an animal hospital who boards dogs also, and I have been bit and lunged at by dogs. I don't show fear, and I know that it's mainly because they are in another place and their nervous enough. But one night I was all alone and letting the dogs out one at a time and their were 2 welsh terriers that hated each other, and one of them got away from me and went to the other kennel and she grabbed the other dogs foot and wouldn't let go, and I was screaming and the other dog was wining, and sometime in all that, I got bit, and it was pretty ugly. And they tell you not to get involved in a dog fight, but their is no way I could just let them go at each other. But instead of putting your hand in there, put your foot or leg in between, the doctors were impressed, because most people quit after being bit like that, but i'm in my third year worknig there. And both dogs were o.k., the dog that was having her paw bit was bleeding but nothing too bad, and the other dog had to be in rabies quarantine for 10 days for biting me. And the two pictures are two dogs that were very aggressive where I work.

[Theresa]

by: Keith Cole
"I learned not to put my hands near the dogs that fight.. after about 3 times.. That was when I was still working in the kennels... the vets told me, not to ever put my hand near them when they are fighting. I learned that quickly.."

I know what you mean, but I think it's hard not to try to get your hands in the fight. Like I said I got bit pretty hard trying to separate the two dogs. But at the time two dogs are fighting, you're first instinct is to get them separate, and so you try to grab their collars, but stupidly, because one of the dogs was smashing the other dogs paw in her mouth, I tried to open the dogs mouth, but I was just freaking out, I was screaming, crying, just wanted to get them separate. I didn't even know I got bit until after I separated them, and some people say, just let them fight it out, it's not worth getting bit, there is no way I could stand there and do nothing. But I have gotten better, if dogs are starting to go at each other, I do put my foot/leg in the middle, but i've still gotten bit, growled at, just part of working with animals who are at a strange place and are scared and everything. But you know what, I love my job, and getting bit and all the other gross stuff I deal with, is just part of the job.
-Theresa