Bite

your dog bites someone, is it reasonable to expect that the incident won't cause a lawsuit? Decades ago, the answer might have been a no, if the victim's injuries weren't severe. Today however, dog aggression that causes a fatality or grisly mutilation gets a lot of media coverage. The Internet is full of photos, videos, and personal accounts of these attacks. This high visibility and ready access to law firm websites specializing in dog bites increases your liability risk should your dog bite…

While recently looking up Canadian laws, Animal Rights popped up and seemed very intriguing. From thereon, the Dog Owners Liability Act surfaced and it states “The owner of a dog is liable for damages resulting from a bite or attack by the dog on another person or domestic animal.” This law does make sense that the owner should take the responsibility of their dog because they were the ones who raised the dog to be the way it is but the one sub issue found with this law is the Pit Bull Ban. The…

matter if they’re vicious or not they going to bite back”. There have been multiple people bit and some even with severe wounds and bit marks from dogs biting them. Dogs should not be executed for biting some one because some one could have provoked them or they were feeling threatened. It may not have been their fault that they bit that person in the first place. Also biting for dogs is the one thing that they have to defend themselves. If a dog bites some one it could of been because they…

harm at all to a very severe reaction. Often the initial bite is painless but followed by a systemic reaction 24–36 hours later with restlessness, fever, chills, nausea, weakness, and joint pain. Tissue death may occur at the bite wound and the skin may slough off. More severe symptoms are seen in the very young, the very old, or in the immunocompromised. In all cases of a suspected bite from a brown recluse spider, apply ice to the bite, elevate the wound, and notify a physician immediately.…

because anyone bitten may need many things to treat the bite such as antibiotics, pain medication, itch relief, and many other things (Deborah H. Smith). These spiders can be very dangerous even though they mostly keep to themselves. The Brown Recluses venom can eat away at the tissue around the bite area causing tissue damage if not treated soon after the bite takes place. If not treated soon the bite could leave a hole in the area in which the bite had occurred this usually requires a skin…

from ticks, once the tick bites you, a small red bite mark will appear. A normal bite will disappear in a couple of days and does not indicate that you have Lyme’s disease. If that bite mark does not disappear and you get the following symptoms at first, you might have Lyme’s disease. The symptoms of Lyme disease are: a rash and flu-like symptoms. For the rash, three to thirty days after the bite that is considered infective, will have an expanding red area around the bite that area will expand…

also the time when mosquitoes bite and spread various harmful diseases such as dengue, malaria, and chikungunya. This is because the rainy season provides apt conditions for mosquitoes and other insects to thrive, which pose a threat to your child’s and your health. Just the thought of a mosquito bite is enough to scare anyone. Although most mosquito bites and their scars resolve on their own, they cause a lot of irritation. Children are more prone to mosquito bites as they have sweet blood and…

animals who react to situations in a much different manner than a human being is prone to. Every 75 seconds in the United States, there is a victim of a dog bite, which…

When the Devia family in California adopted Rocco, an American Pitbull Terrier, they had no idea what they were in for. Since the adoption, both Carol and Peter Devia were wrongfully terminated from their stable jobs at a newspaper delivery company. Unfortunately for the couple and their two children, this meant missing rent payments on their apartment and eventually being evicted. While finding a new living space might be easy for most families, owning an American Pitbull Terrier makes things…

Dachshund is more of a nip. So with that being said when a Pit Bull does happen to bite someone the bite does inflict damage, and that’s why it is reported, unlike a Dachshund bit normally is not that serious of an injury. Another characteristic of a Pit bull is that it has one of the strongest bites out of most breeds, with a recorded bite pressure of two hundred and thirty eight pounds, while the Dachshunds bite is barely a fraction of…