Posted by: @twenty

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I'll just say I was attached by a neighbor German Shepherd walking home from the school bus when I was like 6. Took a hunk out of my arm. There was fortunately another neighbor that was in his garage and beat the dog back with a broom or could have been a lot worse. Neighbors were fortunate that my parents weren't the litigious type or could have been bad for them. They put the dog down obviously, after. 

 

So you better get some serious training for the dog, surrender it for someone who can train it, or put it down now. I don't think keeping a dog that has any tendencies whatsoever to bite is worth the liability. 

My parents still tell this story:  when I was growing up as a little kid, our neighbor had a German Shephard. When I was 5, I was playing in the yard between our houses and wandered into his yard. The dog started snarling and barking at me, then started creeping towards me.  I was frozen. But before it got to me, our dog, a pure bred Collie (Lady, a Lassie twin), took off and sprinted between me and the German Shephard and they went at it for a minute or so. 

Collies are good dogs.