I don't have anywhere else to post this right now. I need to post this while I'm waiting to hear back from husband.
Our youngest dog bit my youngest son's nose (like almost the entire tip) almost completely off. Like, it was only hanging on by the bottom skin of his nose. At least that's what it looked like. I didn't want to take the cloth off of it to look at it since it seemed to just be hanging there.
Husband and I were in the bathroom together (I was feeding kittens and hubs was using the bathroom).
Kids were running around and suddenly heard the dog do that kind of snappy dog bark and then my boy screaming and then the other 2 screaming.
He comes running in to the bathroom as I'm getting up just drenched in blood.
911 was called and hubs went with him to the hospital. I'm sure it was shock but my youngest stopped crying pretty quick and just acting like such a tough brave little guy.
Texting DH and he said they've just taken him back to do surgery. He said they might let them come home tonight if everything goes well I guess.

Feel like such a cliche right now. Always reading about a friendly family dog just suddenly biting/attacking a child or something and you know.. you have your thoughts about it.
Like... our dog was friendly (to us at least, he was nervous around strangers). He'd let my kids just lay and hug all over him and just lick them happily and love the attention.
No frickin idea what happened. Where the blood was and from what my daughter told me.. I think the dog was getting in to some goldfish crackers that was on the couch and my boy must've ran up on him and startled him in to snapping b/c of food aggression. He had food aggression when we first got him as a puppy, but with us working with him, he grew out of it, but just... I don't even know. I don't know. Just a horrible damn accident that just... You never think it's going to be your dog b/c well.. it's your dog. You know your dog.
I feel so guilty for not I dunno.. I just feel guilty like somehow we should've known it was going to happen. Like.. our dog wasn't aggressive. Our kids know how to act around our pets.... but we still should've known.

I signed our dog over though. Feel so bad for doing it, but how the hell can you trust a pet that does that seemingly out of nowhere? Supposed to get a call tomorrow to to I guess.. I don't know.. investigate it further or something? Told the animal control cop that it's been a couple of years since his rabies shot b/c I couldn't remember, but it was only last year. I'll have to tell them that when whoever it is calls tomorrow. I don't know if that will even make a difference though since I'm not sure if dogs that bite are automatically put down.

I'm sorry this is so long. I didn't want to post this all over FB, but I just needed to put it somewhere while I wait. Wish we could be at the hospital too. Stupid covid.

They got home around 10 last night. My baby boy was woozy and bandaged up but ok.
Got a look at his nose this morning and it was the nostril skin (on the outside) that was holding it on. It looks good though. Looks a little swollen and obviously all stitched up but it looks good. DH just went off to get more stuff to take care of it.
He's acting ok today too thank goodness. Lower energy but that's to be expected.

We just got a call from the animal shelter telling us that they're going to have to put our dog down so they can check for rabies. He just had his shots last year, but I dunno, I guess it's routine or something. I don't know but feel sick with guilt about it.

Geeze. Seems like dog bites happen a lot more than anyone thinks.

Thankfully daughter has been fine since Wed. Back to her old little 7yo attitude self lol.
And youngest son is back to his old self too.. just with some added medications and smearing stuff on his nose while it heals. Kids definitely bounce back faster than the adults.