I used to be a pet grooming worker, and I have been scratched by cats and bitten by dogs.
But I was scratched by cats when I was giving cats a bath and blowing them with air. The cats jumped up out of fear and kicked me on my hands and face. There are still scars now. Anyway, I haven’t had a cat bite anyone in the past two years, and they were all accidental injuries. Relatively speaking, I
have been bitten by dogs more often. Once a customer handed me a dog, and I was bitten before I even touched the dog when I reached out to take it. The customer blamed me for not being careful, saying, “How can I be careful if I haven’t even touched your dog?”
The second time was when the dog was guarding the cage. The first time the owner came to our pet shop, he knew that his dog would bite people when it guarded the cage, but he didn’t say anything. I just opened the cage and was bitten. Later, the dog was not dealt with. Whoever touched it would bite whoever it touched. In the end, we couldn’t call the owner to pick it up. Its owner also told our boss that other pet shops had blacklisted him, and asked us to think of a way to deal with him because he was too dirty.
What can we do? At that time, there were only two people in our shop, me and another beautician. The first section of my right index finger was almost bitten off, and I couldn’t work. If another person was bitten again, would the shop still be open?
The third time was a dog that didn’t allow its nails to be cut. Its nails were very long, and the owner specifically asked to cut them shorter. As a result, when I cut its claws, it started to turn its head wildly and wanted to bite people. Later, when I told its owner, its owner told me that dogs don’t like to have their nails cut. He cuts them himself and bites them, but he didn’t tell us that the dog bites people.
It’s also very strange. Most cat owners who come to bathe their cats will say, “My cat is not sure if it will bite people for the first bath, so you should be careful,” or “My cat doesn’t like to be blown and will scratch people, so you can just dry it.
” But dog owners often leave without saying anything. After biting someone, some people will say: My dog never bites people?
Then your dog doesn’t bite people, and the wound was bitten by me. Am I blaming your dog? Now pet shops are all monitored, how can I deceive you? !
And the smaller the dog, the more it likes to bite people. I was bitten by poodles, Bichon Frise, and Corgi Schnauzer. On the contrary, big dogs like Alaskan Husky and Golden Retriever don’t bite people, and they are obedient. Although washing is tiring and blowing is also frustrating, they are not hypocritical.
Some are very smart. When I can’t hold them, I let them go to the bathtub and grooming table by themselves, and they jump on by themselves. They are very cute!
So it’s not that I have a high tolerance for cats, but most of the time cats attack people, it’s the human who asks for it, while dogs attack people.
Suddenly I remembered two things that left a deep impression.
Once a couple came to the grooming shop with a small gray Teddy and made an appointment with another groomer in the shop. I was there chatting with the hostess.
We talked about the dog’s personality. The hostess began to complain to me, saying that she usually took care of the dog at home, and she was responsible for walking the dog every day, adding food, water and snacks.
But when the dog was unhappy, he always bullied her and even bit her, but he was very good to her boyfriend. The male owner interjected: She didn’t dare to teach the dog a lesson after being bitten by the dog, she just hid and cried, and had to wait for me to go home and deal with it.
The female owner was a little embarrassed, so she said that the dog looked pitiful and she couldn’t bear to teach it a lesson. I was a little uncomfortable to respond to this. I thought to myself, you feel sorry for the dog, but the dog doesn’t feel sorry for you. The dog bites you because it thinks you are easy to bully? Otherwise, why doesn’t it dare to bite the man?
I just smiled at the person and didn’t say much.
Another time, a mother and daughter took their white giant dog to be groomed. The dog was very noisy, and the mother and daughter followed the groomer all the time, not leaving. The dog became even more noisy when he saw the supporter. The
two kept chattering about how good their dog was, and how much their family loved dogs. What impressed me most was that the two said proudly: In our family, the status of the dog is the highest!
I wondered in my heart, it’s a dog, it eats your food, drinks your water, lives in your house, and spends your money, but its status is higher than yours? I don’t understand~
I played with cats and dogs at home today. I didn’t need to call Timi (dog), she would circle around me all the time. Ouhuang (cat) would come over and rub against me if I called her a few more times. Doubao (cat) would only show his head from the bedroom door after I called him for a long time.
Suddenly I realized that in fact, humans have higher expectations for dogs than cats, right? So when expectations are not met, people are more likely to blame dogs?
I didn’t feel anything when the dog kept circling around me, but cats are different. I would be happy if they could take two steps towards me after I called them!
Of course, my attitude towards cats and dogs biting people is the same. I would beat them hard if they bit people!
But when it comes to the attitude of cats and dogs towards me and when they make some small mistakes, I found that I am biased.
If the dog doesn’t come when I call him, I think he is disobedient! I am happy if the cat responds casually when I call him.
Dogs are scolded for making mistakes, but kittens usually let it go unless it’s a big mistake. At most, they are scolded as “stinky cat”.
It’s as if subconsciously, puppies should be sensible and shouldn’t make mistakes, but when kittens make mistakes, they think which kitten doesn’t make mistakes?
Well… I’m not the only one who treats her cats and dogs the same way!
So I thought again, why do I have such an idea? Why can I think that puppies should be sensible? It’s normal for kittens to make mistakes?
This goes back to the topic, why are people lenient with cats and strict with dogs?
My initial answer only focused on the situation after cats and dogs hurt people, which is not comprehensive. And many people in the comment area are right, a large part of dog injuries comes from the inaction of dog owners.
Maybe it’s because dogs have always performed too well, and there are sayings like “dogs are humans’ best friends”, which praise dogs too much, requiring dogs to be sensible and human, to be able to guard the house and the owner, and to be able to please and be good.
For cats, they only require…
Oh, it seems that many people now don’t have any requirements for cats, thinking that cats that don’t bite people are good…
This seems a bit like “the crying child gets candy”?
Hey, humans are really biased!
Comments from other netizens:
Netizen A: So the most hated sentence from dog owners is that my dog doesn’t bite people.
In fact, dog leashes are useless. The first rule of civilized dog raising should be that dogs must wear muzzles when entering public areas.
After all, being scratched by a dog is nothing, but being bitten by a dog is a big problem.
That is, big dogs and small dogs must wear muzzles. Even if a small dog doesn’t bite people, it likes to bark too much. The personality of a small dog is also very unstable.
Netizen B: A dog that bites people always has an aggressive and selfish owner. Yes, our boss said so too. She said that the owner will raise the same kind of dog.
Netizen C: Today’s pet cats are simply vocal puppets. Their ancestors have never bitten people for generations. The teeth are just decorations. My four cats will only lick when eating canned food. Biting people is non-existent. At most, they kick people because they are afraid and want to escape, leaving bloody marks. But more often, they can’t even escape. They just stay like idiots.
Some pet cats rarely make sounds and are very quiet. They don’t bark much. So as a former pet service provider, being injured by cats is an accidental injury.
Netizen D: There is a difference in aggressiveness. When a cat feels uncomfortable, the first reaction is to run away, while the first reaction of a dog when feeling uncomfortable is to fight first.
Then, cats do not obey their owners. In daily life, the owner can fully understand the cat’s temper and whether it will attack others. Dogs are completely obedient to their owners, so the owner naturally thinks that his dog has a very good temper, so he says that it is impossible for the cat to bite people.
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