I love animals, especially dogs. With that said, I can tell you from first-hand experience that an animal bite is one of the nastiest injuries you can get. Infections are almost guaranteed, and it takes months to recover. In my opinion, there are more infectious germs and bacteria in an animal's mouth than you'd find in a Chinese Bio-Lab.
Understanding Animal behavior
Animals are instinctively cowards at heart. It's their nature to attack when they're certain they have the advantage. If you turn toward them, most will stop in their tracks and rethink their strategy.
It's probably a good time to put this out there, that I'm no expert on this topic. However, being an experienced victim of a gnarly dog bite, I believe there are some animals who only see us as steaming turkey legs thus negating their natural cowardice. As you probably know, hunger can be a powerful motivator.
It's time for my story
Last summer, my wife and I were riding our bikes on our country road. We live in a rural area where houses sit on acreage and everyone can pee off their porch and no one is witness to their indiscretion. You should also know that most of our neighbors use redneck security, also known as "two dogs or more" to keep the strangers at bay. As we left our driveway, my wife was in the lead heading up the road far enough in front of me to safely pass by our neighbors Pit Bull security task force thus alerting them to the fast-approaching juicy meal on a bicycle, namely me. As a fat guy looking back on this while not considering the thousands of beers and burgers I've consumed in my lifetime, I should have stopped. Feeling confident I could outrun them on my 750W juiced Scorpion, I flipped to racing mode and began peddling with everything I had to offer. It turns out, I had little to offer. As the first dog sunk his teeth into my ankle, my mind flashed the infamous quote from the movie "Talladega Nights" of Reese Bobby telling Ricky Bobby, "If you ain't first, you're last. Without stopping and letting the dog finish his lunch, I peddled out of his grasp to freedom as the blood filled my shoe. I know this all sounds a bit dramatic and worthy of a movie script, but this event traumatized me as it took months to heal and all I could think about was how I could have prevented this with a little forethought.
How I could have prevented it
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In the future, I'm hoping to write a sequel to this article, and I'm going to title it,
"Man Bites Neighbors Dog".
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