by moby302 » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:31 am
hey Topdog, you did the right thing, if my maid was bitten by one of our dogs I would also make sure she had the best treatment, I am really sorry to hear about Haze though I do understand why you had to do it, we have boerboels, and they can be scary, my oldest one bit my daughter in the stomach about 7 years ago, we faced a big decision, should we have him put down, or not, in the end we did'nt because it was really her fault, boerboels slobber, great big strings of slimey drool, she was outside and he was slobbering and she shouted at him and had a broom in her hand (sweeping out the avairy) which she waved in front of him, so he did what any normal animal would do, stopped her. He bit her again about 4 yrs later, she opened the security gate right on his backside, I can imagine it was painful, he let her know on her leg. Being a fair sort of a dog he did not want her to have one bite on a leg and not the other so a year or so later he repeated it when she was shouting at her father and decided to use him as support. Now she has even bite marks on each leg, none of them deep or serious, more like warning nips, but we do not allow any of our kids outside with him anymore without one of us being around. Unfortunately more and more so called breeders are ruining the boerboel, we have another one who is more boxer than boerboel and he has 'papers', I am not that fond of boxers, they have an aversion to cats and we have many cats. Unfortunately we did not realise this at the time as he looked like a boerboel as a puppy, and once you get a dog you cannot just decide that you don't like him, he must go, its not that simple, its a commitment.