I have just had a perfectly dreadful day in every way. It was really awful. So I took the dogs to the dog park to play. To relax and unwind after a bad day. The dogs always cheer me up. We had just gotten in there, Uncle Fred promptly pooped, so i was walking over to pick it up when a very handsome German Shepherd suddenly ran at me and nipped me in the arm. I turned my back and he bit we hard in the right upper thigh.
I had almost changed into shorts before going out, but fortunately I still had jeans on, as it is I have a large, swollen circular bruise that is getting worse by the minute. The woman with the dog really didn't do anything, she just implied I was making a fuss over nothing while her dog continued to circle and snarl at me.
I hate how it felt. I was scared, and I don't know the last time I was scared of a dog. I have been bitten by accident a bunch of times over the years, but I haven't neen bitten by an angry dog since childhood.
Then Uncle Fred came flying over and knocked the shepherd down and pinned it. So then the woman grabbed the dog and I pulled UF off.
After that i handled it badly. I should have gotten her name and the dogs name and some contact info. I just wanted them out of the park. Keep in mind that I was holdiong a lunging and snarling and howling seventy pound dog at the time. But I just told her to take the dog out and not come back.
Clearly this was really irresponsible of me, since if she brings it back it could attack someone else and i have no way of getting the word out. if something happens I will feel responsible. I am hoping she has enough sense to keep the dog under firm control from here on.
The dog only broke the skin in one spot, thanks to the jeans, the rest is just bruising.
The perfect end to the perfect day.