Big thunderstorm last night.
Lost. wet. frightened dog in the driveway.
Held out my hand for him to sniff, SOB bit it and took off.
In my youth I’d have gotten a weapon and dragged his corpes to the health department. I have the rabies series and I’d rather take it again than kill somebody’s dog. I’ll call my Doctor as soon as they open.
But damn, if I’d know it would feel like I’d been hit with a hammer… 
Didn’t your mother teach you? 
Actually it was Mrs. Plant the dog maven that suggested I try and get a leash on him. Hmmmm…
I wouldn’t have advised going anywhere near that dog, with it in such an agitated state, even with the idea to leash it. And you certainly don’t go putting your hand within bite range with strange dogs.
Sorry to hear about your woes, carnivorousplant, and no offence, but this part (my bolding) made me laugh out loud.
Dude.
You are going on the list of dopers I’m going to bite.
Oh dear! Poor dog. Poor you. It’s never a good idea to reach towards a nervous dog. Always let them come to you. In emergency, must leash the dog situations, I’ve used a slip leash or even a belt to lasso dogs.
If you’ve taken the rabies series before, does that not ‘vaccinate’ you for at least a year? What happened that you had to take it before?
I was bitten by a raccoon 12-15 years ago. There was an arguement with her babies and my kittens over some cat food.
Oh yeah. That would do it. Outdoor kitties? Raccoons are bold(and agressive) little bastards and I’ve heard several accounts of them coming in through pet doors. Pet owners beware: if your pet gets into a fight with one, you could be strongly pressured to put him/her down, even if they are vaccinated. I had a client with a kitty who was attacked by a raccoon and they had to keep her in quarantine(in their sunroom) for nearly a year.
I’ve had a cat “quarantined” by choice in the bedroom for a couple of years.
Everybody, 'coons, cats, cold wet scared stray dogs and the idiots who help them is just trying to make a living.
Yeah, hey, you tried to do the right thing, and good on 'ya.
Please don’t think about the “No good deed goes unpunished” saying.
You have the moral high road; suffer your pain with stoicism. We understand.
Good news.
Passover is finished.
Sorry, wrong thread,
Good news.
The dog was in the driveway when I got home. Her name is Jessie and she’s said to be 20.
Bad news. Rabies Vaccine is $1,500. I called all my chits in as IT guy with out HR folks and got them hashing it out with my physician who doesn’t want o give the shot and the insurance company who is actually willing to pay. I gave this HR woman my networkable printer with a legal paper tray a few months ago. Worth it!
Anyway, despite Jessie’s owner being willing to let her set in the yard and rot, (she was indeed lost in the storm and was attacked by the viscious dogs to the West; she can barely walk and has bloody wounds, no wonder she bit me when I tried to help) she will be put in durance vile at the vet’s for ten days. I don’t think the owner was going to have her tended to unless he was required.
She got me with one of four remaining molars! Nonethless as my Grandfather was wont to say, “I can tell I’ve been in a fight.” I’m getting a $20.00 tetanus shot tomorrow. Jessie will come home after ten days of the easy life and having her wounds tended.
Very bad case of testosterone poisioning there. We found the guy, got him to come get the dog (I’d already called Animal Control) and he says, “Now where’s the guy she is supposed to have bit?”
I responded with own case of TP by holding up my bloody hand and exclaiming, “supposed, Hell!”
Supposing the guy doesn’t set my house on fire or shoot Mrs. PLant’s dogs, all seems to have ended well.