when i finished doing this house i went in my pouch to get ticket to put through door   all i heard was  rrrrrrrrrr woof an yes he caught me,  lady ran out saying he is a  [ I should have amended this post ]  for that    i sed get the bloody thing put down then     wish i had bit ma tongue but she heard me,  she was nice bout it an plasterd me up 2 fingers,   and to add insult to injury she only had 3 quid an she owed me 2 cleans

any of yous had pet bites of custies pets?

worse of all got blood over ma best scrim

the dog that bit me was a bull mastiff   it held on like a badger   i thought it was just the dog logs u had to worry about   its just another one to add to the list of hazzards of the job   it was on ma flagship round an all that round has been demoted to 4th now

i remember the lady saying it only had small teeth   if i had my way they would of been smaller  cos id kicked them out,  lucky she was in i suppose

Here's a tip.
I use a wooden spatula when putting flyers etc through doors. Mainly due to the brush pile draught excluder on new letter boxes. Fold the flyer in half over the end of the spatula and push through. the flyer doesn't end up crumpled or ripped and when dealing with dogs your fingers aren't on offer.

Id prob drop the spatula through aswell then have to knock and ask for it back haha!!

I do this myself when I know there is a dog on my reg round. One time though, the dog grabbed my blade which had the windows cleaned ticket folded round it and dragged it through letter box! No one was in but when I went collecting I got my blade back but they understood immediatly. It was a laugh though. A little bit more serious though was a pub I used to do. There was always a Rotwieler inside and it didn't like me. The owner was usually there but this time only the cleaner was there and it charged at me like it was going to kill me but stopped short of biting me.
I backed out the door. The cleaner came out and paid me and apologised but I'm not going back again, it's just too risky for 8 quid, maybe 9 lol.

there's a mad german shepherd at an house i do, when i put the envelope through there's a thumping and thudding and snarling at the door, and when the enveope gets posted back to me i know where it's from before i open it cos it's torn to smithereens . i'm glad my fingers are never the wrong side of it, but at the end of the day, the thing that bothers me most about dogs is when the owner has,nt cleared up after it

This happened to me a few moons ago. The date escapes me but it was a Saturday as Celtic were playing Dunfermline in the scottish cup final. I took on a new customer on my run and it was the last house. He had these two mastiffs which i found out later were rescue dogs. I was doing the front of the house and the dogs werte barking inside. A minute later the owner was outside with them in the front garden. I was just finishing doing the tops and came down to do the bottoms while still on the ladders. Made small talk with the owner about the football and noticed he was a bit drunk. He turned his back on me for a second and i came down the ladder and as quick as a flash without barking one of the dogs took a bite of the back of my ankle and as jumped back up the ladder to safety it tried to take a bite of my other ankle but only tore the fabric of my trouser leg. I called over to the owner to say "Mate!!!!....Your dog has just bit me ... To which he said "It wouldn't do that (famous last words from owners of dogs by the way)..I said "I'm off mate , keep your money...I won't be back ........I went down the street to my car and when i inspected my ankle there was a big red U mark where its teeth had made contact with the back of my ankle. I went over to a customer in the same street to collect and showed them my wound and they told me the guy was a waste of space,so i went straight over to his door and showed him what his mutt had done. He did not even apologise, but tried to pay me for the clean. I told him to forget it and get another window cleaner....I then went to the local cop shop and put in a formal complaint about him and the fact that the dogs were out without a leash saying the guy had a shared path and the neighbours had little kids....  I then went to the local A&E for a tetnus and my ankle gave me a bit of pain for a few days.