Scar on my back from an setter that ripped my coat off when I was 5. I remember it very well and looking back, I'm sure that initially he was just trying to play...tugging my jacket sleeves. It got out of hand, I was crying and squeeling and I think that excited him. He ended up shaking me like a rag doll and someone got out of their car and pulled him off of me. His owners said that he went crazy and he was PTS.
I approached a beagle that was enjoying himself in someones garbage and he bit my wrist - 6 stitches and I remember seeing my veins.. I was 7.
When I was about 12, a big poodle mix (Nickey), badly bit me in the face when the family asked me to pick up his dish so that we could wash it. He had been licking it clean and he grabbed me, bottom jaw inside my mouth and top jaw on my cheek. I was talking about it with my mom recently, trying to remember all of the details. She said that I only got about 8 stitches but the bite was NOT the most traumatic part.
My friends mom beat Nickey within an inch of his life with a belt while I screamed at her to stop.... It was a nightmare..
A few years back while at a session for a little old blind poodle, I was bitten in the...er..breasticle.. She went to grab for my hand but I was just quick enough for her to miss, she kept snapping until she made contact...:rofl1: It was more embarrasing than painful, especailly for her "daddy" who didn't know which was to look.
And last and honestly least too was a very energetic and totally untrained 2 year old Dobi. I was at this session for 'aggression' and as soon as I entered the door, the phone rang. The IDIOT owner, handed the leash to her daughter as I was removing my boots. Romeo (such an appropriate name) tried to mount me and then got frustrated, he was much taller than me and I kept turning so he couldn't get a good grip...he nipped me between my shoulder blades, broke my skin but not badly.
I've been very lucky..though I usually don't allow for 'accidents'. For the number of years that I've been training dogs, only the last 2 very minor nips were work related.....*knocks on wood*