01/03/2025
This job is dangerous. I think most people when I tell them roll their eyes and think we just pet puppies all day. That IS NOT the case. Wishing a speedy recovery!
I have had a lot of people reach out asking exactly what happened.
Here is an excerpt from what I originally wrote on Christmas Eve from my hospital bed.....
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As I lay in my hospital bed tonight, practicing my letters. I became overwhelmed by a wave of emotions. I also realized I have not made a single post since the incident happened. And you deserve to hear it all straight from me.
First let's start with the fact that I have 2 completely diverse friend groups. One group (A) is heavy into dogsports, bitework, nosework and/or are K9 handlers or trainers. The second group (B) may or may not even own a dog.
The fifteenth started out just like any other Sunday I had people over working their dogs doing nose work. We wrapped up around 3 and I had gotten a message earlier in the day from Chloe. If I could please let her dogs out. Because she had to take her boss to the airport.
Backstory there, I have known Chloe for 8 years. I have known most of her dogs all of their lives. These are not dogs that are strange to me. I've known them. Chloe has been staying with me for the past 5 months with her dogs. So this is some thing that I have done many many times.
I have rewound this over and over in my head. More times than I can count. And I don't see anything that would've clued me in on what was gonna happen. I let Deli and Lana out together to let them both go potty and play and run around for about 10 minutes. And when I started walking, across the yard to lock them back up, Deli did a fly by nip on my thigh and I told him no. And that's when he latched onto my forearm.
For my A group Deli wasn't wearing a collar. For My B group Deli is Trained in bite work Meaning he's trained to target one area in one area only and to focus on that area. Part of this training entails being hit kicked slapped grabbed by decoy, which only makes the dog regrip harder with his mouth. I have seen and heard a lot of people say "well why didn't you just hit the dog or why didn't you poke the dog in the eyeballs? Or why didn't you do this this or this?" The reason I didn't do those things is because I knew with Deli's training that if I hit him or did any of those things It was just going to force him to bite down harder. My soul intent was to get away from him with the least amount of injuries on my body.
My absolute saving grace on this Incident was that I had just spoken to my father to let him know. I'd be late for dinner and my cell phone was laying on the back of my truck. I was able to get myself and Deli to my truck to get my phone to call 911.
I am not 100% sure how long the actual assault? bite? attack? mauling? whatever you wanna refer to as took place But I can assure you it was the longest minutes of my entire life.
What has been done has been done. We can't put toothpaste back in the tube. We can only move forwardas I work on a journey of not just physical but mental health. Meanwhile, I need some of you to be better people. If you did not hear it directly out of my mouth, it didn't happen. Now is not the time to arm chair quarterback what I could or couldn't have done better what you would or wouldn't have done better because at the end of the day I can guarantee you, I fought for my life and did everything I could think to do.
Please do not blame Chloe for this happening. As stated before, Deli was not a new dog to me. I've known Deli for 7 years. He's the father to my dog Drax. She and I have talked about the incident repeatedly. Trying to figure things out trying to figure out if there was a change in his behavior trying to identify what it might have been that triggered him we simply don't know, and I'm sure there's many people out there that would've noticed a trigger would have seen something I simply missed it. But at the end of the day I don't want a point fingers. I just wanna move forward and heal.
Animal control will be releasing Deli to Chloe on thursday. She will be requesting that he be euthanized. And then in necropsy be performed to see if there was any physical reason why this occurred.
So please finish out the holiday season knowing how grateful I am to have every one of you in my life between the donations, the running errands, the sharing my story, the sharing the go fund me to purchasing Amazon wish list items. The list goes on and on and on and on. I could not be more thankful to have you in my life.
Special thanks to Melody Ann and Shelly I will never be able to return the unbelievable amount of love and caring you have shown me this past week. ❤️
Good Night and Merry Christmas I hope Santa was good to each and every one of you this year🎅
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