i have been bitten quite a few times as i work at a kennels, mostly little nips from small dogs. my worst bite was from a boxer, i was taking it past the kennels and it was trying to go for the other dogs, it accidently grabbed onto my leg. he let go once he realised it was my leg and not a dog.
i was about 18
the dog wasn't pts

I have only been bitten by accident when trying to wrestle a chicken bone off a dog that had been dicarded along the road. The dog grabbed to get it back and got me instead. It wasn't too bad an injury but my goodness it really did sting.

I was bitten when I was about 12 by our family pet a Golden Retriever called Sebastian. I went to add more food to his dish and he bit me on the finger. Ouch it was all bloody and everything and I still have a scar( Somebody should've told him to never bite the hand that feeds you!) I think it was my fault interfering with his food and he was not pts.

Been bitten a few times at work . Labrador, GSD, Cocker Spaniel, Lurcher and crossbreed. One was PTS, at least two should of been.

Yes, I was bitten on my face by our pet poodle when I was 10 years old, my own fault, he was standing on his hind legs at the kitchen sink, I came up behind him and tried to move him, which I think frightened him....hence the bite!! I ended up having two rows of stitches just underneath my nose!!!

I pleaded with my parents not to have him PTS and thankfully it worked, he lived to be 13 years old and never bit again.

Also, more recently, when Poppy was fitting, she clamped down onto my fingers and bit right through them, more stitches and tetanus injection......again not her fault, it was due to the medication the vet had given her.

I have been bitten several times, I went through a period of about 18 months, when several GSD's bit me, out o fthe blue, but none were PTS, as only minor things. I have had thousands of puppy bites. My most painful of all was from a collie a agility, were my hand got in the way of her mouth. None were PTS though!

I have been a few times, nothing serious though luckily!

First was a GSD - I was riding my bike along a country road to my friends house, and there was a big abandoned house - the guy still kept his dogs there though, chained up, but the chains stretched all way across the road.
It grabbed my side, but luckily I had a few layers of clothing on!

My Yorkie bit me once and drew blood - he had a bone, and it got wedged under the sofa, so I went to pull it out for him, and he must have thought I was going to take it, so he bit my hand.

Working in the kennels i've had a few bites, but luckily, nearly every time I had my thick coat and a jumper on!
The most bites were from Golden Retreivers, a few from basset hounds, one from a westie, welsh terrier, and a staffy that hated me went for me, but didn't get to me!
We had pit bulls there, that were seized last year when that little girl died (the Pitbull that the News Of The World bought was one of them)...all but 1 were soft as anything, and one tried to bite my hand when I was feeding him, ce caught my glove, but that was all!

I was bitten badly by a bitch Red Setter when I was about 2, maybe 3. Despite the young age, I remember it as clear as day. My mother used to have her hair done at a hairdressers in the village where we lived in Leicestershire. Even at that tender age, I was dog crazy, and my mother always used to take me with her to Mrs Groves, leaving me to play in the garden with the Red Setter !! I know, I know, how mad is that, but there we are, my mother was a hunting, fishing, shooting type, brought up around animals, had her own pony, etc. etc. People did things like that then. This particular day I remember the hairdresser, Mrs Groves, telling me not to touch Suzy, the Red Setter, because she had a bone. Well I ask you, what a bloody stupid thing to say to a child. I remember vividly crawling across the grass on this lovely summer's day to where Suzy was munching on her bone. She growled at me, got up and ran at me, leaving the bone on the grass. I crawled across to the bone, picked it up and held it out to her when she attacked me, ripping open my left cheek. I still bear the scars today.

I screamed blue murder of course, my mother and Mrs Groves came racing out to the garden, I was scooped up and sat on the kitchen table whilst disinfectant and hot water was fetched. I can see that kitchen now, me sitting on the table swinging my legs and sucking this huge sweet whilst Mrs Groves cleaned up my wounds. My mother dashed off to fetch the doctor, Dr Gerard, and I can't remember what happened after that, but apparently I was taken up to the surgery, where he proclaimed that the wounds must not be stitched else I would be scarred. Bless Dr Gerard, I am not badly scarred, despite the fact the wounds were deep.

What a stupid thing to do, leaving such a young child who you knew had absolutely no fear of dogs alone with a large dog ... with a bone !! Frankly, it is a miracle I ever survived my childhood ! I love my mum to bits, now aged 83, but she did have her moments ! I remember her telling me off for being such a stupid child ... whilst my cheek was hanging off!

I have never blamed the dog, only Mrs Groves and mum. Having said that, I cannot see my dog EVER biting a child EVER, but then he would never have had the opportunity.

It's interesting that several biters on this thread have been collies. I am doubtless going to be attacked by collie lovers, but please don't, I am a huge collie fan, I think they are tremendous dogs, but I have to say I would not have one with young children, say under the age of 10, or perhaps I should rephrase that, I would only have a collie from a pup so that I could train it and socialise it properly and know that that had been done.

Collies are highly intelligent, very loyal dogs, as we all know, but they are bred for herding. Their herding instinct is phenomenal. Young children, quite rightly and naturally, have a tendency to run around all over the place like headless chickens, or sheep, screaming and having a jolly good time. All well and good. But ... many collies I have known if they haven't been brought up with young kids as pups so that this behaviour is the norm for their human pack, seem to get really wound out by this behaviour and can be extremely snappy, basically treating the children as sheep. But when the dog starts to snap at the heels of the children, the children get hysterical and the inevitable happens.

Please don't misunderstand me, I adore BC's, and I guess I am probably talking about the farm collies, who live outside and have not been socialised with children. We adopted a gorgeous BC called Bertie a few years ago and he was an absolute darling and totally trustworthy with all children, but then he was brought up from a puppy with children.

I guess what I am saying in a roundabout way is I would not take on a collie rescue, or an adult collie, if I had children.

i've been bitten several times

1. got inbetween a JRT and an agility ring (not pretty!)

2. when our old dog who had a brain tumour totally flipped out and attacked everything/everyone - not his fault, though he was pts.

3. several times by ziggs during fitting again not his fault.

4. when an akita literally attacked for no reason in the park, if ziggie hadnt jumped in and given me time to run he would have quite happily ripped my throat out - this dog was dangerous and attacked several people - he was pts when caught.

Gnasher - there have been several breeds mentioned several times throughout this thread, the question was not about collies, i've known loads and never been bitten. they're the same as other dogs!