# Well... I finally got bit. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 12, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787 "2016-03-12T20:55:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/41 "2016-03-16T22:13:02Z")
> [@jerry\_smissingfinger](#): > > I was referring to the OP had to go back and look to find your reply. > > But I do have one question about the “severely Chastised” comment. What does that mean exactly? > > Basic obedience or teaching a proper heel will fix that “Severely chastise”? Told in a forceful and deep tone that she misbehaved, and instructed to go to her crate; pointing to said crate if necessary; standing up if necessary - it hasn’t been for quite some time. She a good dog, and well-trained, she just nips at some people’s fingers - I can’t break her of it, because she never does it with us. I was referring to your statement that, “The owners are anthropomorphic”. No, not here. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/42 "2016-03-16T22:34:00Z")
> [@jerry\_smissingfinger](#): > > I could go on but in short this behavior is mainly caused by humans. Not saying 100% of the time because some dogs are just little shits.😃 So, about your name… ---
**Author:** ![jerry\_smissingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@jerry\_smissingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerry_smissingfinger)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/43 "2016-03-16T22:36:53Z")
> [@j666](#): > > “Severely chastise”? Told in a forceful and deep tone that she misbehaved, and instructed to go to her crate; pointing to said crate if necessary; standing up if necessary - it hasn’t been for quite some time. She a good dog, and well-trained, she just nips at some people’s fingers - I can’t break her of it, because she never does it with us. > > I was referring to your statement that, “The owners are anthropomorphic”. No, not here. right on Your definition of chastise is anthropomorphic. Dogs may cower and go away when you raise your voice but it fixes nothing as you see. I’m shutting up now ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/44 "2016-03-17T00:10:54Z")
> [@jerry\_smissingfinger](#): > > Your definition of chastise is anthropomorphic. … > I’m shutting up now Good idea, because no, it’s not. ---
**Author:** ![spamforbrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/45 "2016-03-17T00:24:10Z")
> [@](#): > > “Severely chastise”? Told in a forceful and deep tone that she misbehaved, and instructed to go to her crate; pointing to said crate if necessary; standing up if necessary - it hasn’t been for quite some time. She a good dog, and well-trained, she just nips at some people’s fingers - I can’t break her of it, because she never does it with us. well, it’s not surprising she hasn’t stopped nipping people. Giving your dog a command isn’t “chastisement” regardless of what tone of voice you use and using a crate as punishment is um, very short-sighted. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/46 "2016-03-17T00:37:40Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > Prepare the Torches and pitchforks, people we’re gonna have a werewiener to deal with. Come to think if it, where is JohnnyLA? No posts in two days…? If he’s been transformed by a full moon into two wrists and two ankles sticking out of One Gigantic-Sized Human Wiener-dog, Cali could be in trouble. Please, No Silver Bullets!!! I like his writing…! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/47 "2016-03-17T01:10:01Z")
> [@jerry\_smissingfinger](#): > > right on > > Your definition of chastise is anthropomorphic. Dogs may cower and go away when you raise your voice but it fixes nothing as you see. > > I’m shutting up now > [@spamforbrains](#): > > well, it’s not surprising she hasn’t stopped nipping people. Giving your dog a command isn’t “chastisement” regardless of what tone of voice you use and using a crate as punishment is um, very short-sighted. You both might want to look up “chastise”. And anthropomorphic. And punishment. Somehow, I’m having trouble taking your advice, under the circumstances. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/48 "2016-03-17T01:25:26Z")
> **[Care2 is the world's largest social network for good, a community of over 40...](https://www.care2.com/)** > > Largest online community empowering people to lead a healthy and green lifestyle while taking action on important causes such as human rights, animal welfare and global warming. ``` This web site said dachshunds are one of the most aggressive breed of dogs , small dogs can be very aggressive . And you should never put your hand out in front of a strange dog , as you found out. I hope the dog was up to date on it shots. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/49 "2016-03-17T02:27:18Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > Come to think if it, where is JohnnyLA? No posts in two days…? > > If he’s been transformed by a full moon into two wrists and two ankles sticking out of One Gigantic-Sized Human Wiener-dog, Cali could be in trouble. > > Please, No Silver Bullets!!! I like his writing…! 😃 Having been bitten by a dachshund, I shouldn’t tell you about my wiener when the moon is engorged. I mean full. ---
**Author:** ![spamforbrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/50 "2016-03-17T03:23:57Z")
> [@](#): > > ou are comparing working lines to small breed pets as per OP my experience is daschunds are nasty pieces of work. When I was a kid, back when people just let their dogs run free, a neighbor’s wiener dog was in control. As in, large numbers of kids got bit and large dogs fled in terror. I don’t know what that has to do with my working bloodhound’s aversion to men. She’s basically a walking HPLC machine. If she says something is wrong I go with it. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/51 "2016-03-17T03:53:23Z")
> [@Washoe](#): > > A lot of dogs, particularly Lhasa Apsos and poodles, simply don’t like men. _ **-snip-** _ I’d really like to know if anybody has done any serious research into this, and what a possible explanation could be. I mentioned at a party once that my cat (I had at the time) didn’t like men, and I wondered how she could even tell human men from women. Some woman offered the explanation that animals can read auras. That’s all I know, 'cause I caught the next bus outta that conversation. My vet asked if I had let the cat watch the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. I think it does have something to do with voices, because the one guy that cat liked was a big, tall guy I dated for a while, who happened to be Deaf, and didn’t speak much. He and I signed, but he talked to the cat a little, and he had a very odd, high voice. I could never make out what he was saying to the cat, but she got that it was directed at her, and she actually took right to him. > [@j666](#): > > You both might want to look up “chastise”. And anthropomorphic. And punishment. On the middle one, the word the poster was looking for was “anthropomorphize,” a verb, not “anthropomorphic,” an adjective. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/52 "2016-03-17T04:09:14Z")
I live in the desert, next to a wash, so “I finally got bit” conjures up somthing very specific and deeply unpleasant. I’m sorry you got nailed, **Johnny L.A.** , but relieved it was a by a nonvenomous genus of Weiner Dog. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/53 "2016-03-17T10:25:13Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > … > My vet asked if I had let the cat watch the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. > … Priceless. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/54 "2016-03-17T14:43:28Z")
Dachshunds are extremely territorial and protective. When I was a kid (early 70’s) and had a foster brother, our dachs was tied to the front porch when the social worker walked up, and seeing as the door was open, decided to reach over the dog, open the screen door and walk right in without knocking. Dog savaged her leg. She called the police, but once she told them the story, they declined to do anything about it as she was acting stupidly _and_ entering our house without permission. She then took it up with her bosses, there was some big brewhaha with my parents about it, and in the end, nothing happened to us or our dog. ---
**Author:** ![spamforbrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/55 "2016-03-17T15:20:09Z")
> [@](#): > > For dogs who’ve never been abused I have an untested theory: men’s voices. I’m sure that might be part of it. But in my hound’s case. it’s either smell or body language because she shows aversive behaviors before they speak. Note she doesn’t bite or anything, she just doesn’t really like them to try to pet her and tries to move away. She loves kids of either sex. We all know adult men smell very differently from either kids or adult women. Even humans, with our pathetic noses, can identify the sex of the former wearer by simply sniffing clothing after it’s been worn. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/56 "2016-03-17T18:31:30Z")
I had a lab mix in the '90s that I (literally) rescued from the streets. He was about two-years-old. Cooper was okay with women of all ethnicities and most white-ish/Latino guys, but would go berserk when approached by African-American men. It was really embarrassing to have a racist dog – I tried introducing him to black males in a very gentle manner, but he wasn’t having it. It’s still a mystery to me. Can dogs even discern race differences?? I second, third, and fiftieth the opinion that some little dogs are really mean. My mom has a murderous chihuahua that bites the crap out of everyone but her; I love doggies, but hate the little beast. The only serious bite I have had is when I tried to separate two of my dogs who got into a scuffle over food. Tigger accidentally sunk her fangs into my inner-upper-thigh – wow, did that hurt! A dark humor aside: my parent’s lovely border collie died of what appeared to be rabies. They were petting and loving Rowdy, trying to figure out what was wrong. The vet and GP ordered both of them to go through the rabies shots series and, in my mom’s typical stoic style, she texted me: “Well, we might have rabies”:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![spamforbrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/57 "2016-03-17T19:05:51Z")
It’s possible people of different races smell different. I don’t know if anyone has checked it out. My neighbor has a dog we call the Attack Chihuahua. This tiny maniac will go after anything that moves. My dogs are terrified of it and it’s gotten me by the ankle several times. Many chihuahua’s have brain damage from hydrocephaly due to breeding for those weird round heads so perhaps that explains part of it. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/58 "2016-03-17T19:12:23Z")
> [@spamforbrains](#): > > It’s possible people of different races smell different. I don’t know if anyone has checked it out. > > My neighbor has a dog we call the Attack Chihuahua. This tiny maniac will go after anything that moves. My dogs are terrified of it and it’s gotten me by the ankle several times. Many chihuahua’s have brain damage from hydrocephaly due to breeding for those weird round heads so perhaps that explains part of it. My opinion is that they have never gotten over being raised to be food. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/59 "2016-03-17T22:37:42Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Having been bitten by a dachshund, I shouldn’t tell you about my wiener when the moon is engorged. I mean full. Its not for me, sport, its for all those Lovelies by you. The ones who’d say, “That’s it? Because there was this guy in Pahrump… and he could not only tie a knot in it, you got your choice of yellow or dijon mustard…” ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787/60 "2016-03-18T00:33:23Z")
There’s a lot of bad information in the world about how to approach dogs. It’s always good to start by ignoring them. Engaging them directly is not comfortable for them, let them come to you and check you out while you act supercool. Plus much more… they behaviorists have learned a lot in the last couple of decades… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-i-finally-got-bit/748787.md?page=4)