Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Pinckneyville, IL
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Yesterday I got a call from the city. My favorite dog had gotten out of his pen a bitten their meter reader. I didn't get a ticket and the guy he bit is being very cool about it (no stitches just a little puncture wound on his leg), but I have to get rid of the family's favorite pet out of all my dogs, and my best coondog.

The thing that makes me mad is that I'm pretty sure the meter reader provoked the dog and made it possible for him to get out of the pen in the first place. I wasn't here and can't prove it but here's what I think happened.

Samson (the dog) is very protective and anytime an adult he doesn't know comes into the yard without a member of the family, he goes nuts. Well the meter reader always walks right in front of the pen on his way to read the gas meter. I think Samson was barking at him and he kicked the gate provoking Sam even more. But when he kicked the gate, the latch came loose allowing Sam to get out. The reason I think this was because when I got home to put him up, the latch had been forcefully moved from where it should be and the way it was showed that it could only have been forced in from the outside.

Anyway, he's never bitten anyone before, but now I have to get rid of my buddy and I'm sick about it. But I keep telling myself he's just a dog and I'll get over it. It just sucks to loose him and see all my time and energy go down the tubes over something so stupid.

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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Illinois
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I don't understand why you would have to get rid of him. Unless yOur law is completly different than ours.
if it bite someone it has to be quarantined for ten days.. once the ten days are up and fines are payed the dog should be releaced according to the illinois state animal control act.

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i think that i would find somebody to keep him for a while at least

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Registered: Nov 2008
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No one is making me get rid of him. It's a decision that I've made. I cannot have a dog that will bite someone. I always thought that his bark was worse than his bite and figured that even though he sounded mean towards some people he would never really bite anyone, but he proved me wrong. I figure it will only get worse as he gets older and that's something I can't risk.

I have 3 young boys who are always having friends over. Sometimes they wrestle on the trampoline together and I've seen Sam go nuts in his pen thinking that the other kids were trying to hurt my boys. What if he got out then somehow and ended up attacking a kid instead of a 270 lb man? It's just too risky to keep him.

I know some guys who would love to have him and I have already had a couple calls about him so I know he'll go to a good home where he'll get to continue to do what he loves, hunt coons. And these guys kind of like having a guard dog around.

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Registered: May 2010
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Man, It is one thing to have a dog Bite, But a Complete other to have one Bite when Provoked.... Dont think I would let this little Incident make me get rid of the dog, Thats Just me as well....

If you want a more laid back dog, Get a Walker....Plotts are more protective....Its the Cur dog coming out in em LOL

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I have an English dog that is very protective of me. First couple of years I had him, he was great - I never would have thought he'd hurt a flea... unless it was on a coon, maybe. He's a grandson of Mich. Swamp Rooster (whom I've heard since has had some aggressive tendencies in the line). He is the perfect-mannered show dog - easy, easy to handle. He aims to please me - anything I want. He is fine with my boyfriend, Andrew, as well, but could be that he accepted him bc I did. Wyatt is also fine around my sisters and parents.

We were going through some hard times and considered selling some of our dogs. I planned on letting a local guy take Wyatt and hunt him up for half ownership. This was the very first time - and probably the last time - Wyatt ever left me.

I was heartbroken that I'd let this guy take my dog... The guy called me a while later and said Wyatt wouldn't let him get him out of the dog box - that he was snarling and trying to bite the fellow. As soon as I showed up, Wyatt was his normal happy self and none of the guys could understand. He came back home with me.

Out in the backyard, any time any adult comes within sight, Wyatt goes crazy if I or Andrew are not around. Especially when my male landlord is near (though this may have somehing to do with the loud scary lawn mower he's often riding). He sounds vicious - never a sound I'd have thought would come from him.

Yesterday he was eating out of a metal pot and the loose handle caught his chain and "followed" him, scaring the crap out of him. He was yelping and trying to get away from the thing - if anyone but me or Andrew had gone up to him to help him, I wouldn't doubt that he'd possibly have bitten them out of fear.

I have considered rehoming him... but it breaks my heart to think about anyone else having him. If I ever did, I think it would probably be with a woman, or else he will be put down here when his time comes. I hope he never bites anyone, but I guess that's a chance I'm taking by keeping him alive at all...

I understand what you're going through, I hope everything turns out alright for both you and the dog...

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Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Pinckneyville, IL
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I traded Sam tonight for a pup out of good stock. The guy was excited to get him and I can definitely understand why. He should have been! I know I did what I feel I needed to do and I hope Sam makes a great dog for this guy or whoever he's got lined up to sell him to.

I hope this new pup turns out to be something, but for me, my wife, and my boys he can never replace Sam.

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