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   Ben (thebreadmonkey@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 21:41:46 JST Ben

   Bit embarrassed about this but I misjudged an interaction yesterday with a 3 year old rottweiler who went for me out of the blue and had my arm in its mouth before being pulled off (not like that). It was extraordinarily frightening and has given me some unexpected trauma. I love all animals and have never been attacked before. Dogs particularly I have/had no fear of and always say hello. But I spent yesterday sat with this enormous dog playing and sniffing around me and was genuinely petrified. Had to pretend the whole day I wasn't but I was glad to leave and am in no hurry to be around her again. It's really given me pause to whether I want to interact with unpredictable animals of that sort of size and ferocity. They said she'd never done it before and it was possibly I went to say hello before she'd had a chance to check me out. Or that I went over the head rather than under the head. Or that my jumper smelled like a dog I was playing with yesterday etc. I really wish it hadn't happened though as it was one of the most frightening experiences of my life, being shaken like a ragdoll and not knowing what to do. Also - quite painful. The rest of the day she happily played with the 6 very young children that were there and it made me really uncomfortable. Seeing her only a short while before wanting to take my arm off. My wife thinks I am overreacting a bit so I'm keeping these thoughts to myself.

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 21:41:45 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     @TheBreadmonkey

     You're not overreacting. That dog is not safe around those children. Those are not responsible dog owners. They don't know exactly why the dog attacked you, but they should. They allowed the dog to continue to be around small children after that attack. They shouldn't have.

     Rottweilers are the dogs most commonly involved in fatal dog attacks. People think Rottweilers are number two, and pitbulls are number one. But that's because people don't know what a pitbull looks like.🤷🏿♂️

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 21:49:51 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     @TheBreadmonkey

     A professional veterinarian can only correctly identify a pitbull visually about 75% of the time.🙂🙃

     If you show a vet 100 dogs, where only 21 of those dogs are pitbulls, the vet will identify about 52 of those dogs as pitbulls. Without DNA tests, everyone massively overcounts pitbulls.

     https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26403955/

     So when people say pitbulls are the most dangerous and rottweilers are number 2, they are wrong. Because pitbull is effectively a catch-all term for "scary looking dog"

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 00:24:05 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     @irina @TheBreadmonkey

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     Irina (irina@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 00:24:06 JST Irina

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     @mekkaokereke @TheBreadmonkey My uncle had a Rottweiler, and whenever we were visiting he made fun of me for being afraid of it. Once it lay under the table that I was sitting at, and growled every time I moved one muscle, and my uncle laughed every time. (Until my mother and aunt came back from wherever they'd been and rescued me).

     Later, it bit my cousin, and was put down.