Depends entirely on the breed.
Bite by a Chihuahua? Nuisance at best
Bite by a Pitbull? Death or horribly mangled for life
Comment on PSI
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I have been bitten by a cat that meant it and a dog that meant it. I would rather be bitten by a dog. The cat hit bone. The dog did not. The hamster bite bled profusely, but otherwise wasn’t too bad. Based on the information in this comic, I am going to avoid birds.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
It was a German Shepard mix. I definitely felt like I was fighting for my life.
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fun fact, german shepherds bite more people annually than any other breed!
shows off face scars
And the vast majority of bites are from animals improperly socialized or cared for, and then of course police and military duty. My shepherd bite was from the family dog that my father abused pretty severely.
Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve experienced the same and always thought PSI is a pretty absurd way to gauge puncture damage like this.
nikstarling@programming.dev 5 months ago
The thing about dogs is that they don’t damage you by puncturing. They try to grab onto your body parts and tear your flesh out by moving their head furiously. In that regard PSI can be a useful metric as it describes how hard it will be to open their jaws.
Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You’d have to know a lot about how that PSI was measured and how their jaw is sized for that to be in any way useful.
shikogo@pawb.social 5 months ago
What are you doing to be bitten by so many animals?
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
The cat was my pet probably 20 years ago. He jumped on the table and landed on a plate of barbecue sauce, so I had the bright idea to try to give him a bath to wash it off. He didn’t like baths.
The dog was probably 37 years ago. I was around 13 or 14. The dog was attacking a neighbor kid who was about 6 years old, so I was intervening to save the kid. The kid got away and my yelling attracted the dog’s owner’s attention. Not until after I got bit. It was some kind of German Shepard mix. My parents and the parents of the six year old reported him to the police, but nothing really happened. I think the owner was a cop.
I hated that dog. He was usually on the other side of a big fence and would bark super aggressively whenever anyone was near. When I intervened he had the kid’s head in his mouth. I kicked him in the ribcage as hard as I could, and he turned on me.
I got stitches from both incidents. Four for the cat bite and I think 12 from the dog. Cat was on the hand near the base of my thumb. The dog was on my right forearm.
No stitches for the hamster, he was a pet, but not very domesticated- probably because we had cats in the house too. I was probably about 8.
Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Cat teeth are more like needles. They also get infected more often.
I say, as I snuggle my bitey cat
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I would bet money they’ve been bitten by a human that meant it, too.