What is it with Lurchers and cracking you one on the nose, or other facial area with there head ??????
I have never been headbutted by a dog in my whole life, but since having her I get it every other bleeding day.
I keep my face away from her while playing (for ovious reasons lol) but even just having a relaxed fuss she manages to headbutt me hahaha anyones else have this from there dogs ????? It dont half hurt, she has just had me good and proper hahaha :) Dogs ay?

heeheehee my bully boy does it all the time , it has made me very quick on my reflex action now, think he gets mad when he misses my nose now as he pounds his paws and does a little dance when he misses me lol

lol I feel your pain!  In my house it's called Stafford 'love' - to the shins occasionally!

hahaha thats what my girl does aswell :) and starts scratching the floor as she dances, and throwing her head back in a little frenzie :) My reflexs are getting better, and I keep my head well out of the way while playing with her, but my partner will never learn, he still insists on restling her with his head down and in the way and then gets upset when he gets cracked in the teet etc hahaha

oooooo I bet it hurts coming from a head of a staffie :)

It does! :)  I have had quite some spectacular bruises in the past!

:-D :-D Having a child you should be an expert at this LurcherOwner, it's where I learnt to beware from babies that they can suddenly from nowhere do a jerk and head-butt you until co-ordination sets in properly. :-) Pups, adolescents and excitable dogs all have the same problem, you have to move fast and always think of a potential butt coming your way. The dogs have never yet got me, **touch wood** but plenty of lips, nose and head butts from my baby sons, now I don't get caught out from my nieces and nephews either. :-)

Just get used to the idea other things don't always move in the direction you think they are going to. :-D

I bet LOL another thing my girl seems to love doing, is running into me and taking my legs from underneath me haha, and I dare not bend down now in a field while she is off lead to light up a fag, as soon as she see's me bend down she see's it as an opportunity to run as fast as she can into the side of me, my arm has felt like it was going to fall off one time with an impressive bruise for about a week :( LOL

Yes Carrington, u would think I would be almost an expert at this by now, having had a baby, but sadly I always think 'na they wont do it again' , hahaha very naive of me haha But it is a small price to pay for all te love, attention and laughter they cause you :) (aswell as the tears) LOL :) :)

is running into me and taking my legs from underneath me haha

lmao @ this ohhh yes i often feel like the Ringmaster minus the red coat when my bully boy comes running at me,, gotta say he has never got me that way Yet!!!,, he has however walk round my wrapping the long lead round my legs and i ended up going down knees first,,, cor never remember hit hurting that much when i was a kid!! lol

Mine don't head butt but the pup will walk behind me and sock me in the calf with her paws. Not too bad with jeans on but first thing in the morning in my dressing gown it is very very painfull and I have an immpressive set of long scratch/bruises to prove it..if anyone can think of a way to stop her my legs would be very gratefull. I walk like John Cleese first thing in the morning kicking my legs back on each step to try and put her off!!!
Be warned of the rushing into you game..I have the plates and screws still in my knee from Merlot going full tilt into my leg from the front !! Ruptured cruciate and a shattered tibial plataue 5 days in hospital, screws, plates and 8 weeks plastered from toes to groin!!!!
Aileen

I think every one of my friends has been the victim of a "heider" from Spud, he hasn't caught me out for some time, but he still gets one or two in with the OH, he gave one friend a black eye once !.

> Ruptured cruciate and a shattered tibial plataue 5 days in hospital, screws, plates and 8 weeks plastered from toes to groin!!!!
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OH NO :(

My horse always used to catch me unawares, lovely quiet stroke and suddenly she would bring her head up , or when I bent down to the bucket....

Gosh these funny little episodes are turning into horror stories, are we sure dogs are really mans best friend? :-)

And now there is a horse at it too. :-D :-D

my tibetan mastiff punches me constantly no headbutting but the punches hurt she is such a bully she does it to the other dogs too thinks its funny!!!

my bull terrier broke my nose head butting me.....it went sideways and i started laughing out of embarrasment because my sons girlfriend was in the house and i didn't want to look like a wuss in front of her. Especially as my OH had said not 5 minutes earlier if i kept teasing him with the ball i would end up in tears......
so i don't think it is exclusive to 1 breed.......maybe just the nut case ones lol :)

Why is it some dogs aren't spacially aware? One of my dogs wants to get inside so quick my thighs are often bruised and I swear my knee has been bent in the opposite direction on more than one occasion. Then another of my dogs had perfect recall except he didn't stop, ran through me from behind, I went upwards & landed flat on my back & ended up with cracked ribs plus a cough/cold which was extremely painful when sneezing. Luckily I was wearing a thick coat at the time.

Have yet to experience a head butt though.

I'm laughing at this thread, and realising that dog folk are daft!

Years ago, when I got my second Bearded Collie, it was a late litter, so housetraining was done in a frozen garden!  It was christmas time, and I had offered to go in on skeleton staff at work.  My pupster was doing very well, and I was making the biggest fuss for a long wee in the snow. 

She got so excited at my noise that she jumped up from peeing postion, and her skull smacked me in the face.  The skin just split on my right cheekbone, and boy did it hurt.  When I went into work, everyone was commenting on my black eye.  I just told them that I had been out to a celebration do, had too much Southern Comfort,  and there had been a bit of bovver! 

Just goes to show how convincing my story was!  One of the vets, hearing my tale, said "One of the dogs did it then!" 

Thankfully Buster is very good at not jumping up, the only head/face injury I've had from him was once when we were having a playfight.

It's a bit hard to explain (and I know I'll sound like a weirdo), but we do this thing, a 'fakey bite', where we'll waft our heads from side to side (I'll be on my knees/all 4s, face-to face with Bust), with out mouths open, like we're going to bite each others heads, with an occasional lunge at each other (and I'll 'wrestle' him & 'duff him up' or he'll 'chew' my arm). One day we both lunged at each other at the same time (mouths wide open) and one of Busters canines caught my cheek. I didn't notice untill OH spotted the blood runing down my cheek I looked nasty untill I wiped the blood away - it was only tiny little mark - phew!

My poor knees go through it far too often. When Bust is on a 'mission' (ie. heard the fridge open - QUICK get to the kitchen), he'll put his head right down and use the top of his head like a bull-dozer, he doesn't look where he's going he just goes, he'll often get me right in the knee-cap with his annoyingly large, very hard head grrrrrrr.

> I walk like John Cleese first thing in the morning kicking my legs back on each step to try and put her off!!!

LOL :-D

>I have the plates and screws still in my knee from Merlot going full tilt into my leg from the front !! Ruptured cruciate and a shattered tibial plataue 5 days in hospital, screws, plates and 8 weeks plastered from toes to groin!!!!

Oh my gosh!!! OUCH!!!!

> are we sure dogs are really mans best friend? :-)
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Hmmmm im not to sure now either after hearing everyone else's stories haha I thought I had it bad, but 'touch wood' no real injuries as yet, im sure she will keep trying tho haha :) Its usually my bf who gets them the most, as he winds her up to the point i predict to him that any second he will get hurt, I can see it about to happen before it does LOL

When im down the field and Lacey is playing with her frinds I must look like a right weirdo infront of the other dogs owners, usually it is a really nice man with 2 springers that we play with, when all dogs come running in our direction I kind of side step behind him with a little 'ahh', he prob thinks im scared of my own dog, but no, i just no how much it hurts when you dont get out the way LOL

My friends dobes have all been head butters, (and terrible crotch snufflers).

We don't get head butting thankfully, but Tara is the mistress of the lunging French Kiss :)

bleeding nose not broken, but lost a tooth and chipped another one with my old rottie he hit me full in the face with his head when going through the teenage i know everything stage.
collie i bent down to put her collar on as she was in a down and someone through a ball near her and as i went down she came up full force and split my eyebrow did not know an eyebrow could bleed so much.

Nothing worse than a head butt from ebt..I know!! lol They always mean well !

Why is it some dogs aren't spacially aware?

God knows, Spud is the worlds worst at being oblivious to his surroundings, he walks into and onto plates and cups all the time, he even managed to stick his whole foot in a cup of tea once, he's also the only dog I've had who walks into poo, every other dog has been able to avoid it, not my Spuddy, I've lost count of the times I've stuck my fingers into his pad as he's been limping, only to find a poo caked between his toes, he's now known as Tollie Toes.

> I've stuck my fingers into his pad as he's been limping, only to find a poo caked between his toes

HEHEHE :) :)