Dog-related injuries

CorvusCorax

CorvusCorax

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Just for fun. Bites don't count unless there's some form of hilarity involved.

This evening I find myself unable to turn my head to the left, due to an incident this morning, when I bent down to lift poop with a bag in my right hand and the dog took off at some speed diagonally to my left and ran right to the end of a 10m flexi line.

Yours?
 
CorvusCorax said:
Just for fun. Bites don't count unless there's some form of hilarity involved.

This evening I find myself unable to turn my head to the left, due to an incident this morning, when I bent down to lift poop with a bag in my right hand and the dog took off at some speed diagonally to my left and ran right to the end of a 10m flexi line.

Yours?
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That’s what you get for using a flexi lead ?
 
Black eye that stayed bloodshot for months - young rottie headbutted me
Dislocated knee - same dog, recalled him from the top of a hill and he didn't put the brakes on in time. To added insult, he tried to sit on me when I hit the deck. I still remember the pain.
Broken coccyx - culprit unknown. Slipped on a dog toy left on the stairs

Worst injury was because of the cat.When I still lived at home, we had a hunting cat. Next door were gutting a house that had been empty for a few years and it turned out it had a rat infestation. The cat was in his element and used to line his catch up by the back door every morning. Well, I came in one night/early morning just a little bit pissed and let the cat in not noticing the not quite dead rat in his mouth until he dropped it on my bare foot until it bit me! The shrieks (mine, the cat strolled off) woke the entire house and I was carted off to A&E for many jabs...for a long time afterwards I was genuinely both rat and needle phobic. Still not keen on either of them now.
 
I was wearing a pair of clogs around the house, 2 Rotters followed me through the kitchen and one (?) stood on the back of one of my clogs. I thought I had put my foot back in properly but then as i went through the door into the garden, I fell down the step to the consternation of the dogs, who decided that I needed lots of kisses and wouldn't let me stand up until I had been given enough. The pain got worse throughout the morning and I went to A&E to be told that I had broken a metatarsal.
When I got back home on crutches, the bigger Rotter cleared a space for me to walk across the living room by circling and then walked backwards to show me the way to my seat, so she did rather make up for the original standing in my clog. I have never worn clogs again!
 
I must have had something over the years....*scratches head, looks at scars*.... nope they are all horse related apart from the scar on my wrist from Millie biting me! She is the only dog that has ever actually bitten me too, although Amy has caught the edge of my fingernail a few times when I’ve been giving them treats... lots of blood! That’s why I don’t give treats any more ?

I have to say that the feeling of a greyhound head meeting your knee cap is always nauseating temporarily, they do have heads made out of concrete ???
 
Most of mine are Dobby related ?

I put my teeth into my lip (not quite straight through but a decent slice).

Had a trip to A&E after landing flat on my back on frozen ground trying to stand on his longline to stop him doing a runner which left my with extreme pain where my existing break is and numbness.

Currently sporting a sore boob/ribs from him missing my hip doing a vault and using my chest/side of boob to rebound his 17kg self.

Broken finger from Quila escaping where she was tied up, snapping at the yearling I was leading who spooked and did a runner.
 
Not me, but my friends grandad drinks with a local bloke who was out with his Alsatian many years ago, early morning and no-one about. Dog was off lead and he called it. It pelted towards him but forgot to stop and hit his legs front on- snapping both them backwards. Poor bloke had to lie there til someone found him!
 
scats said:
Not me, but my friends grandad drinks with a local bloke who was out with his Alsatian many years ago, early morning and no-one about. Dog was off lead and he called it. It pelted towards him but forgot to stop and hit his legs front on- snapping both them backwards. Poor bloke had to lie there til someone found him!
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Ooo I felt quite sick just reading that, poor man!!! As a greyhound owner you get used to doing ‘the swerve’ because they are all too stupid to stop ?
 
Ouch Tihama!

I have been lurchered a few times. Taken clean off my feet by Dylan and Sophie watching each other as they raced into me, lifted off the ground and slammed on to my back by a new foster suddenly dashing flat out towards something behind me on a long line. Skated on my front along the heather for a few yards when a loose staffie appeared out of nowhere making a beeline for us, sat in the mud to avoid being pulled face down into it when some riders blithely let their large dog run at us. Miraculously no significant injuries so far but I am forever grateful to the lamp post conveniently at hand for me to grab a few weeks ago when the neighbour's dog escaped their garden and came to say hello.
 
CorvusCorax said:
Broken toes and banjaxed knees seem to be a big thing. I broke a bone in my foot last year tripping over a laptop bag strap, I had been compiling a catalogue for a dog show on said laptop, so does that still count as dog related??
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I remember that.... no, sorry, pure carelessness ??

I’ve been wondering for ages why my left ring finger hurt in a horse related incident from over a year ago - I have to pull the finger out until it clicks when I type on a keyboard a lot - then I thought to compare one hand to the other. Ah ha.....???
 
Wiped out by a shorted arsed but 13 kilo of muscle dog whizzing about playing with another and not looking where he was going.
Fractured coccyx slipping on wet grass to kick a ball for the dogs.
Fractured coccyx (you would think I would be more careful) slipping on the waters edge of a new pond that was dug it of clay, the dogs had been in and out chasing a ball and swimming, the edges were wet and on a slope, I turned to leave and my feet went flying and I crashed down.
 
Run into from behind by a chunk of a golden retriever playing chase with his mate.
I went down, knee went one way, ankle went the other. Thought it a sprain. Turned out i damaged the ankle and knee ligaments and as I didnt go right away for treatment ended up damaging my hamstring as it was trying to over-compensate. Still struggle to run on it and i really notice the difference in the strength of it when i ride
 
My bank balance- I have a mostly whippet!

In a slightly related way, had a mis-step trying to avoid being 'lurchered' during zoomies, and standing on a plank with large nails in it. The nice man at A and E said the reason it hadnt gone through my foot was because it hit a bone on the way up.
It was a month where both of us had a poorly paw. One of us got sympathy, biscuits, bandages from the private consultant and one of us got a tetanus shot and told to go home :p
 
Ooooh a few :)

Broken rib - pulled over in the mud by Kiera
Broken hand - tripped over Willow onto the front garden, in front of the neighbours!
Constant whiplash - caused by Willow's pulling
Damaged knee ligament - a 'fail to stop' by Bonnie

I've fallen on my arse a million times walking the dogs but can't necessarily blame the dogs. It's usually my own feet at fault or the mud!
 
George headbutted me trying (and failing) to jump into the boot, at the exact moment that I bent down to pick him up. He nearly knocked me out, no exaggeration. I had an instant black eye; had to go to meet a friend for dinner afterwards and then had my Keeping In Touch Day at work the next day, all very embarrassing!

So do watch out, Lev ;)
 
ponyparty said:
George headbutted me trying (and failing) to jump into the boot, at the exact moment that I bent down to pick him up. He nearly knocked me out, no exaggeration. I had an instant black eye; had to go to meet a friend for dinner afterwards and then had my Keeping In Touch Day at work the next day, all very embarrassing!

So do watch out, Lev ;)
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OMG PP I’m really sorry but that did make me laugh because I can just imagine him doing it!!!! Attacked by bullet shaped terrier missile!!! You poor thing.....
 
Levrier said:
OMG PP I’m really sorry but that did make me laugh because I can just imagine him doing it!!!! Attacked by bullet shaped terrier missile!!! You poor thing.....
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Haha I can laugh about it now but my god it hurt so much! It was like being hit in the face with a cannonball. He stole Frank's nickname of Bonehead for a week or so after that.
 
Slipped a disc lifting a 28kg Labrador into the boot of the car, he wasn't able to jump because he had a slipped disc.
Torn ligaments in my shoulder picking up a 28kg Labrador, he wasn't able to jump because he was having laser treatment for a torn ligament in his shoulder.
See a pattern emerging??
I was very careful when I lifted him into the boot of the car to take him to the vets with a ruptured spleen I can tell you! ??
 
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