We’re happy to hear Kim Zolciak-Biermann and Kroy Biermann‘s five-year-old son is almost back to normal following that horrific dog bite earlier this year.
Speaking to People, the Real Housewives Of Atlanta star revealed it was the family’s own husky-boxer mix, Sinn, who snapped at their son’s eye after being startled by the sound of a leaf blower. The famous fam has decided to keep the pup after much deliberation.
The 39-year-old reality star said of the harrowing incident that nearly left her young child blind:
“It was a like a bad dream. Our dog Sinn is heavily, heavily trained. Kash is his favorite. It made absolutely no sense to any of us. This is nothing I ever thought I’d be dealing with in my life.”
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Kroy explained what happened:
“Sinn doesn’t like the blower, so he’s already in high alert. My back was to the dogs and the boys. I hear Kash be loud, and then I hear barking. And then I hear Kash screaming, he’s crying very loud. At that point I think he’s scared, but then I realize Sinn bit Kash. He’s dripping blood everywhere on his shirt. He pulls his hands down and there’s multiple lacerations, I can’t see his eye. I knew it was a very dire emergency.”
As a father, the former football player is having a difficult time coping with what happened to Kash:
“It’s a process every day. Being right there, it was just wrong place, wrong time, wrong circumstances. The perfect storm. Had one thing been different, it wouldn’t have happened. You try to say, ├óΓé¼╦£What would I have done differently?’ And there are a lot of things. now, but you can’t change any of it. You just have to learn from it and grow from it. There are no words to describe something like this. I just pray that any parent out there does not have to go through anything traumatic like it. It’s just a horrible feeling to have to go through.”
He added that it wasn’t an easy decision to keep the pet after the bite:
“I hated Sinn. I genuinely felt a deep rage for what he had done to my son. Sinn was always a good dog, extremely obedient and protective and not at all aggressive. He’s hyper-active and hyper-sensitive but wants to work and loves to be commanded. I love my dog, and nothing like this had ever happened to me before. But it’s my son. I don’t love anything more than my flesh and blood. I thought, ├óΓé¼╦£I don’t want to see the dog ├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥ he doesn’t get a second chance.'”
Kim chimed in:
“Sinn and Kash have been best friends since the day we got Sinn. Kash is an absolute animal lover, and Sinn is definitely his favorite, without a shadow of a doubt. That’s why it was extra hard.”
Ultimately, the “super strong and positive” youngster did not develop a fear of dogs, and wanted Sinn to stick around:
“He saw a service dog in the hospital and he hopped up out of the bed. He was all over the dog, petting the dog and loving on the dog and kissing the dog with no inhibitions. It was unbelievable.”
The turning point in the decision making came when Kim and Kroy came to the realization that it was a bite, and not an attack:
“That was a turning point for me. It was not an attack ├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥ he nipped at Kash’s face in an attempt to communicate with Kash. Not that that is an excuse. But he took off running. It wasn’t as if he was attacking. Sinn knew he had done wrong. If Kash ever looked at me and said that he didn’t want to be around Sinn or showed any hesitation, then he wouldn’t be here. We love Sinn, he’s part of our family, but our children will always come first without a doubt.”
Now that Kash is healthy and 95 percent healed — Sinn has been reintroduced into the family’s home, with some slight changes to his care.
Kroy explained:
“Sinn had a lot of freedom before. He would sleep in the crate at night, but during the day he would roam around the house or we’d let him outside. Nobody really watched him. Now his crate is locked with a key that only Kim and I have the keys to. He’s supervised all the time when he’s out. And the only time he runs around free is in the fenced-in dog run we built for him the backyard, which gives him about 400 sq. ft. of grassed space.”
Now, the Biermanns are just hoping other families learn from this terrible experience:
“We’ve taught our kids, no matter how nice dogs are, they are capable of anything and cannot communicate to us in another way than through action ├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥ be it barking, growling, biting, scratching, or running away. A child sees flurry, fluffy, fun, slobbery ├óΓé¼┬ª they don’t see danger. And we didn’t either, as adults who had always owned dogs but never gone through something like this. But you have to understand those triggers. Whether it’s loud noise, their tail being pulled, whatever it is, it should be on the forefront of everybody’s mind. Not as fear, but just awareness.”
Stay safe, bbs!
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