[nagdu] Dog Attack

Tue Jun 3 03:45:19 UTC 2014

Dear Craig,

	I am sure your wife is correct; just keep a special eye out for ear
infections; my dog's ear wasn't bitten, but somehow she did manage to
develop one of the only ear infections she ever had.
	You're a fine boy, Chase.
Darla & Hardworking Huck

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Craig Heaps via
nagdu
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 10:07 AM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Dog Attack

Thanks for asking.  He seems fine, except he doesn't particularly like
having his head warpped (to protect his injured ear).  When his head is
wrapped, he has -- if you'll excuse the expression --  a hang-dog look.  He
soet of mopes around.  But when we work, he's his usual happy self.  His
head was always on a swivel at the sound of a dog, and that hasn't changed.

We go to the vet this morning for a follow up, and to my untrained eye and
that of my nurse wife, his ear look pretty goog.

Craig and Chase, who wants this dumb head dress off

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marsha Drenth via nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 6:29 AM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Dog Attack

> hi Craig, I'm sorry to hear that you and your puppy went through your 
> first attack. Now that it's been a couple of days after. How's your puppy 
> shown any signs of distressed? I very much hope not.
> When I got my first seeing-eye dog, Emma in 2008, the first week I was 
> home, we had a dog attack too. And unfortunately set the precedence for 
> her to be a little stand off fish the rest of her working career. Just 
> wondering how you're doing and your puppy is doing.
> Thank you
>
> Marsha drenth
> email: marsha.drenth at gmail.com
> Sent with my IPhone
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> As such, I may have used dictation and had made attempts to mitigate 
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>> On May 28, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Craig Heaps via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Well, we survived our first dog attack last night.  My wife and I were 
>> walking out dogs in our neighborhood.  She has a small standard poodle, 
>> Cody.  I, of course, have Chase, the black Lab.  I had Chase out of 
>> harness and on leash, while I walked with my white cane.  As we came 
>> around a curve, a pit bull mix came running out of his house and went 
>> straight for Chase, wtith the owner of the pit bull right behind.
>>
>> The dog lit into Chase and Chase went submissive.  (I think he thought 
>> the other dog was playing, the way Chase and Cody wrestle when Chase is 
>> out of harness).  The dog had Chase on the ground by the neck.  The owner

>> was on top of the dog, trying to pull him off.  It wasn't until my wife 
>> kicked the pit in the hindquarters that he let go and his owner was able 
>> to get control of him.
>>
>> Chase had one through and through puncture wound on his right ear and a 
>> small insignficatn abrasion below his right eye.  We took him to the 
>> emergency vet, who put two surgical staples in his ear and wrapped his 
>> head like those guys you wee in old war movies.  He was able to avoid the

>> cone of shame so I can put his harness on him if I need to.
>>
>> Chase didn't seem at all traumatized.  His tail was wagging right after 
>> the attack and he wanted to greet all the people who came ouf of their 
>> homes to help us.  Our poodle, on the other hand, was a mess.  He 
>> couldn't calm down. He was barking and baying so loudly I couldn't tell 
>> at first if Chase was crying.  He wasn't.
>>
>> The dog's owner indictated he will have the dog euthanized.  We have a 
>> lot of small children in our development, and it just wouldn't be 
>> responsible to keep a dog like that around, even though it's been around 
>> and aggressive for some time.
>>
>> In training, they told us it would happen eventually, and now it has.  Do

>> any of you take steps to protect your guide?  It's remakable how fast it 
>> happened.  I was beating on the pit bull with my graphite cane until the 
>> tip flew off, and I might just as well have been scratching him behind 
>> the ears. My wife's well-delivered kick to the rear end seemed to do the 
>> trick.  I don't know what we would have done if his owner had not been 
>> there.
>>
>> Craig and the mostly unfazed Chase
>>
>>
>>
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