The French face-transplant lady

[Booldawg]

Think this is the most fitting category to post this! A few weeks ago I watched a documentary about the lady in France who was the first face transplant patient after being attacked by her dog, a labrador. Why would a dog suddenly turn on her mistress with such devasting force?

[warpig1]

I think the reasoning behind it was that she was off her head on drink and the dog was trying to wake or alert her, not actually attacking her as such. Whether this is fact or fiction I don't know.

[divegirl]

Hello Warpig....not in the dungeon then? Have to agree with you on your post ^^^^^^ ...... Apparently the woman had tried to commit suicide and the dog was just trying to rouse her.... So maybe this should go on B&S ....Why should someone unstable enough to contemplate suicide be considered for a face transplant? [As I don't believe she had a facial disfigurement in the first place, surely a transplant would send her totally over the proverbial edge!]........ Any way.....Warpig, did you get let off or did you escape?

Lisa x

[warpig1]

Hi divegirl

Think I managed to fly below Ed's radar this time, think she may be more interested in getting admarlow, so am safe for now, but am typing this really quitely as don't want to her to hear me, ssssssshhhhhhh.

cheers
warpig1

[Booldawg]

tbh, ripping someones face off would be a sure way of waking them up. Glad I've got you two old timers back together though via the medium of THREADCLASH!

[divegirl]

lol....sorry Booldawg....but we did answer your question!

Lisa x

[warpig1]

Sorry booldawg didn't mean to hijack your thread, I am hiding out from the Ed in places she wouldn't normally find me. don't tell anyone I am here. sshhhhhh.

[wolf63]

what happened to the dog?

[Booldawg]

haha I know warpig and divegirl. I'll 'star you up' for the effort.

[Booldawg]

not sure what happened to the dog. My guess it got put down.

[warpig1]

Dog got put down.

[jake-the-peg]

Wikipedia says:

Some reports claimed that her daughter has said the dog was trying to wake Dinoire after she took sleeping pills in a suicide attempt. The hospital has denied this. In a statement made on February 6, 2006, she admitted that "after a very upsetting week, with many personal problems, I took some pills to forget ... I fainted and fell on the ground, hitting a piece of furniture."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_Dinoire

Does sound strange doesn't it - mind you when I was in my teens I was bitten in the face by my pet dog - I was lucky and fast and only got a cut up lip and no long term visible scar.

The dog in question was a golden cocker spaniel and they sometimes suffer from something called rage syndrome one moment I was stroking it on my lap the next it was trying to kill me.

Don't think it's ever been reported in Labs though

[warpig1]

JTP - have read a little bit about cocker spaniels and yes your are right they do have temprament problems, this may have been a factor. Don't know if you have watched 'its me or the dog' but this issue has arisen before, apparently depending on their colour. Don't know the details but if you like you could look it up. But take your point!

[jake-the-peg]

That is true but there is a well known genetic problem with Cockers see here

http://www.dogstuff.info/cocker_rage_syndrome. html

They can be charming animals but if you get one that suffers from it you know all about it, the eyes glaze over and they snarl and drool it's not just like when a dog gets angry and snaps, they really seriously lose the plot and can then be as nice as pie again 15 minutes later.

It's pretty scary - frankly in retrospect it was a dangerous animal and we were pretty irresponsible keeping it

[wolf63]

can't they do something about cocker rage. Is it not also in other dogs too - golden retrievers?

What I like about dogs is that you usually get a good warning before they bite (unlike cats who just lunge).

My dog bit me about seven years ago (he's dead now), he had a chicken bit in his mouth that he had scavenged off the pavement by the chip shop. I stuck my hand in his mouth to get it (don't try that folks) and he went through one of my fingernails and the nail bed. But I got the chicken out. And I got eight stitches and still have a deformed nail.

Sort of went off track there - but yes Booldawg, like the name, unless a dog is ill there is usually a reason for an attack.

[krazykaylz]

i love the fact use r so intent on answering this question, even if u do get a tad sidetracked