Police training excercise in South Afrca..

My feelings exactly.

That footage almost made me puke. It's like a friggin' nightmare. I couldn't even watch the whole thing. it reminded me of my son being mauled by a dog when he was eight years old, & I couldn't handle it.

 

Thanks, Jay. It was a crazy ordeal.

The dog that attacked my son was a chow. It belonged to my mom's neighbor whose sons he played with. The kids were walking into the back door when the dog grabbed my son by his face & body slammed him; shaking him like a rag doll. His friend managed to get the dog to let go by hitting him, but he then latched onto my son's arm. He got loose again & the dog got him by his leg. His friend got the dog off him again & dragged him into the house. The mother dumped him at my mom's house with a towel over his face & took off. I was at work when it happened.

On the way to the hospital, my mom stopped by to pick me up (the place I worked was on the hospital route). I almost fainted when I saw him...his face looked like hamburger meat & I could see his teeth through the side of his face & his bottom lip was split wide open. Thank God he was in shock during the whole thing. The local hospital cleaned him up & shipped us to a children's hospital where an awesome plastic surgeon did his surgery. I was so afraid he'd be disfigured from it, but the scars he has don't leave any indication of just how severe the injuries were.

We had to sue the owners whose insurance was supposed to cover the expenses. The case dragged out 10 friggin' years before he got paid & imo, he got screwed over. Of course I know the length of time & the amount of the settlement was based on who we were. Otherwise the lawyer would've done the fucking job she was hired to do. I'd have been better off hiring one of those tv advertising shysters.

 

I'm just thankful he made it through without being disfigured or killed.

She was a beautiful dog. I've always liked German Shepherds. It's weird, ever since he was attacked, I'm super jumpy with certain dogs, but he seems to have little to no fear at all of them.

 

Thanks, FG. The whole thing was a nightmare, but thank God we made it through. I know that I won't ever use that piece of shit lawyer again.

 

I have no doubt that the whole thing will eventually bite her in the ass, if it hasn't already. What's crazy is after all these years, she & her husband (he's worse than she is) direct a lot of hostility at my son for, as the husband told him, "all the shit you put us through". It also pisses them off that their sons still choose to associate with him. My biggest frustration is there were a few more things the surgeon wanted to do that he specified needed to be done before my son started puberty, but the lawyer didn't do her damn job & it took too long. I couldn't even fire her without still having to pay her. Thankfully the issues were minor, but it pisses me off that nobody gave a damn about my son but me. I still think it was because of who we were.

I don't know what Jay did to that dog, but I know I'd like to have been the one who got to deal with the dog that attacked my baby. I'd have ripped the bastard apart with my bare hands.