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Unnecessary new experience
Feb. 27th, 2005 11:07 pmGot bitten by a dog today. Trivially - a nip on the lower leg, tore my sock and drew blood but no puncture wound; I went to a doctor just in case, but was sent away immediately after she checked I'd been given a tetanus jab less than four years ago.
There were four of us, on a nice walk round Belas Knapp and Cleeve Hill, and we had just come down past the nice large (if scarcely stately) house at Postlip Hall, going back to the car park by Corndean Hall. Walking along a track (a public footpath, marked on the map) past a farm; two sheepdogs, one standing in the road, one basking in the sun by the side. They came towards us barking; we carried on, as ramblers do, and one of the sheepdogs bit my ankle.
The owners were around, and very apologetic; I assume we came across to the dog as a group of unusually large sheep with unusually few legs, to be moved on by nipping at the heels of the hindmost. Not quite sure what the right thing to have done would have been; I'm not a great fan of farm dogs, but mostly I just carry on past them; sometimes they jump up, but none had bitten me before today.
I think I'd have had to have been more clearly careless to justify myself feeling guilty for having been bitten; after all, I am English, and began talking to the farmer with 'I'm very sorry, but one of your dogs has just bitten me'.
If it swells or reddens I'll head briskly to the doctor again; anything else I should watch out for? Any idea how to stop this happening again?
There were four of us, on a nice walk round Belas Knapp and Cleeve Hill, and we had just come down past the nice large (if scarcely stately) house at Postlip Hall, going back to the car park by Corndean Hall. Walking along a track (a public footpath, marked on the map) past a farm; two sheepdogs, one standing in the road, one basking in the sun by the side. They came towards us barking; we carried on, as ramblers do, and one of the sheepdogs bit my ankle.
The owners were around, and very apologetic; I assume we came across to the dog as a group of unusually large sheep with unusually few legs, to be moved on by nipping at the heels of the hindmost. Not quite sure what the right thing to have done would have been; I'm not a great fan of farm dogs, but mostly I just carry on past them; sometimes they jump up, but none had bitten me before today.
I think I'd have had to have been more clearly careless to justify myself feeling guilty for having been bitten; after all, I am English, and began talking to the farmer with 'I'm very sorry, but one of your dogs has just bitten me'.
If it swells or reddens I'll head briskly to the doctor again; anything else I should watch out for? Any idea how to stop this happening again?
