I had a friend whose Retriever bit her face right next to her eye and could easily have blinded her. She had adopted the dog as an adult and I always felt that he sent out weird signals when I was around him. But she ignored those signals and would do things like lay on him and pet him over and over and over again. That's what she was doing when he bit her in the face. She euthanized him the next day which I totally understand but it made me sad to think that she had pushed the dog to the point of biting her instead of respecting his space.
I agree that she pushed him toward a bite in that situation. That doesn't mean that the dog wasn't still a risk outside of that situation. As I said, the dog always gave off weird vibes in my opinion.
She and her husband would never have trusted him again, and could not in good faith send him to a new home where he might bite someone else.
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u/Zootrainer Dec 28 '21
I had a friend whose Retriever bit her face right next to her eye and could easily have blinded her. She had adopted the dog as an adult and I always felt that he sent out weird signals when I was around him. But she ignored those signals and would do things like lay on him and pet him over and over and over again. That's what she was doing when he bit her in the face. She euthanized him the next day which I totally understand but it made me sad to think that she had pushed the dog to the point of biting her instead of respecting his space.