Comments on: Will My Dog Hurt Me?

By: Take Your Dog to Work — Or Vice Versa

Take Your Dog to Work — Or Vice Versa — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:26:37 +0000

[...] question that I enjoy spending quality time with Frankie. And I take full responsibility for having incurred a DRSI (Dog Related Stress Injury) before I knew better than to let him rest his head on my wrist while I was [...]

By: admin

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:15:27 +0000

Good for you for rescuing pitties — and what a sweet story about being kissed into a nosebleed!

By: April

April — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:03:17 +0000

I’ve met hundreds of pit bulls (I’m a director of a pit bull rescue group in Vancouver, BC) and only once has one drawn blood! I was saying hi to an old foster boy at an event, who in a moment of exuberance leapt up and bashed his giant noggin into my nose. I saw stars and spent the next two hours stuffing Kleenex in my face.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:47:30 +0000

Hmmm….Sam the feline assassin! That could be a good title for a children’s book — or a murder mystery — when you discover who Sam’s handler is.

By: Susanne

Susanne — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:07:52 +0000

When I was a child the family dog, a German Shepherd named Sheba, ran in front of my bike when I was out riding. A combination of my slamming on the brakes and turning abruptly to avoid hitting her saw me go sailing over the handle bars onto the bitumen, skinning my hands, knees, nose and chin (not a good look!).

These days it is my cats that have it in for me, particularly my tonkinese Sam. With daily regularity he insists on dashing in front of me and between my legs as I walk. We have almost both come to grief on many occasions as a result, yet he perseveres with this behaviour. I am convinced he is on some secret assassination mission, I just don’t know who he is working for, so I keep him around hoping to figure out who has put him up to it and why!

By: admin

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:42:45 +0000

Hope you heal soon — that’s a big guy to be knocked down by! Yeah, not much you can do if the leash is off already…

By: Debbie Wolfe

Debbie Wolfe — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:25:14 +0000

Ouch! Reading this makes my still healing shouder dislocation ache! I was pulled over while retrieving my 130 lb Mastiff early one morning when she followed her brother out the door after some creature of the night. I’d already taken her leash off before she bolted and was holding her flat collar in my hand. Hubby had gotten brother under control and was heading home. Little sister decided to follow faster than I was ready. BOOM!

By: admin

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:37:58 +0000

Gee, I’d better blog about the many, many health benefits of pets, quick, before people begin thinking twice about getting a dog! And actually, everything you describes comes under the category of PRIs — pet related injuries (though I’m thinking that acronym sounds awfully familiar…)

By: Karyn Zoldan

Karyn Zoldan — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:30:13 +0000

When I got my first greyhound, he got tangled in the leash and I tripped over it and fell to the hard sidewalk. Fortunately, all I did was rip by jeans.

I have two friends locally who suffered really bad CRIs. Nancy tripped over a bag of kitty litter in her home and broke her shoulder bone requiring complex surgery to the point where she has had to go on permanent disability. Her own osteoporosis exacerabated the problem. Another friend Chris tripped over watermelon rind that she feeds to her pot bellied pigs and dislocated her shoulder.

So these weren’t CRIs but were CFRIs and PFRIs…cat food related injuries and pig food related injuries.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:33:29 +0000

Oh, dear. I hope Brandi was VERY good company during her recovery!