{"id":39869,"date":"2015-03-16T07:23:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T12:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=39869"},"modified":"2017-10-23T15:23:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:23:31","slug":"dont-pet-a-dog-you-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/dont-pet-a-dog-you-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t pet a dog you don’t know"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend got bit in the face by a dog. It broke the skin but does not need stitches.\u00a0 A neighbor was walking two dogs and my friend bent down to pet them — she’d petted the big one before, but this time it bit her. Her last tetanus shot was over 10 years ago, remembering the helpful review<\/a> I read on tetanus, I insisted she go to the doctor for one. I cleaned the bite and put Neosporin on it and bandaids over it to keep it clean until she could get to the doctor a few hours later. \u00a0She also got a round of antibiotics.\u00a0\u00a0 In 2007 I got bit by a neighbor’s dog. I wrote about that here http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=32661<\/a> so I knew we had to contact Brevard County Animal Services at 321-633-2024.\u00a0 The dog owner walks them around my block about 8:00 each morning the next day I was going to ask her for her contact info.\u00a0 Except she didn’t walk by the house the next day.\u00a0 I took a walk around the block and didn’t see her, so I got in my car and figured I’d drive the route she likely takes the dogs on their walk.\u00a0 I didn’t see her but asked another dog walker if he knew where she lived.\u00a0 He did, so I knocked on her door.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

She was very embarrassed over the situation, but she does dog rescue, so she knows the drill.\u00a0 She knows the doctor has to file a report of a dog bite, the same as a hospital has to report a gunshot wound.\u00a0 She gave me her contact info.\u00a0 I called the doctor and gave it to them for the report they would fax in to Brevard County Animal Services at 321-633-2064.\u00a0 A bite investigator would contact all parties.<\/p>\n

My friend is healing up and with insurance she’s only out of pocket $4.<\/p>\n

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