When Dogs Attack Over Food: My Horror Story

I have 4 dogs that my wife and I have rescued over the last 6 years. Two of them she actually had when we first got together and have been best friends and inseparable ever since. One is a male dog, about 40lbs, some kind of weird mutt mix who my wife rescued from the pound, and the other, a female, is a black/white terrier mix, and weighs about 5-6lbs. My wife found her on the side of the interstate. The Female clings onto the male, even sits on top of him while he lies down, they are like 2 peas in a pod. But since she lived on the streets, she can be very territorial especially when it comes to food.

Two nights ago my wife was giving the dogs some left over pizza when the female tried to snatch a piece from the male dog’s mouth and I guess he finally got pissed off and attacked her. I say “finally” because usually she snatches food from him and he usually just takes it. Now I didn’t see the attack, nor did my wife because it happened so fast. I heard them get into it, but dogs growl and fight all the time, so I didn’t even get off the couch. My wife said something like “oh no”, so I could tell that she thought the fight might have been a little more serious. However she couldn’t see the dog yet, because she was hobbling into the livening room where I sit. All I could see was her hobbling around with blood pouring out of her eye. I figured he had bit her eye pretty good, so I told my wife to call the emergency VET, so I could go get her stitched up. Well as she was on the phone walking around the island in the kitchen she all of a sudden screamed and said “her eye in lying here on the fucking floor!

When he bit her he must have hooked her eye with his tooth and it ripped the eye right from the socket.
My wife started freaking out. So I had to calm her down, take her and my son into my bedroom, and out the other dogs outside. I then scooped up her eyeball and wrapped it in a paper towel, grabbed the dog and went flying out of my house. Then I raced as fast as I could to the hospital. She made it there okay, she had stopped bleeding and surprising wasn’t freaking out. I was shaking so bad when I got to the VET that I could barely film out the forms.

After waiting an hour the VET came in and told me the procedure. Of course the eye was lost, but they had to cut off her eyelids and muscles and use those to form the enclosure over the eye. It was either that or they could just leave a hole in her head. Of course I told them money wasn’t an object and to do whatever they could. The surgery went really well and she’s been home since yesterday morning. She’s all doped up but seems pretty normal. They said she was really calm for being through so much trauma. She’s an older dog, probably 12 years old or so, but she is a trooper.

Now she’s already been cuddling with the male dog that took out her eye. They both have no fucking clue as to what happened.

Funny side note: ( Its funny now that it’s all over, looking back of course) While I was holding her right after it happened and picking up the eye off the floor, the male dog was sitting in the corner finishing his piece of pizza.

I still can’t believe this happened. I’ve had dogs all my life and haven’t even ever heard of this type of thing happening. It’s been a really bizarre couple of days.

I have pictures of all of this, but didn’t want to just post them because they are VERY graphic. I have some when it happened to after she got home all stitched up. Let me know if you want to see them.