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Antoinette Taus undergoes surgery after being bitten by a Chow Chow
“My left forearm suffered the worst and took two hours of surgery and suturing,” Antoinette said.
(File photo: antoinettetaus/Instagram)
Actress Antoinette Taus is currently confined in a hospital after she was bitten by a Chow Chow while attending a family wedding in Baguio last Saturday.
On a Facebook post on Monday, March 4, the actress said she is recovering from the wounds on her left forearm, left thigh, and right breast which she sustained from dog bites.
“My left forearm suffered the worst and took two hours of surgery and suturing,” Antoinette said.
Along with her caption are some photos of her arm after the surgery when the bandages were being changed.
“When it first happened there was some fat hanging out of the wound and I could even see the tendon in my wrist,” she shared.
“Luckily there’s no permanent damage and no arteries or nerves were harmed,” she continued.
While giving her fans an update on her condition, Antoinette, who was supposed to have some events and meetings to attend to this week, also apologized to her colleagues for not being able to come to work for now.
“Praying for a speedy recovery and deeply grateful to the amazing doctors and nurses that have been so wonderful in taking care of me since I arrived,” the 38-year-old actress wrote.
Before ending her post, Antoinette offered some advice to those who are planning to adopt a dog.
“I have been told that chow chows are the number one breed known to be involved dog bite cases. I am an animal lover and my natural instincts wouldn’t allow me to harm the dog that was attacking me.
He is perfectly fine. But I am definitely traumatized most especially by the chowchow breed,” she said.
She then told the potential pet owners to consider adopting abandoned dogs first before “buying expensive breeds.”
Learning about the incident, her fans poured in ‘get well soon’ messages for the actress in the comment section. But while wishing for her fast recovery, some netizens did not agree with her remarks about the Chow Chows, with some saying that the bad behavior of a dog should not be blamed on the breed itself but to its owner.
“There are no bad dogs, only bad dog owners. Do not zero in on the breed. I proudly own 5 well-behaved Chows. I am sorry this happened to you,” Facebook user Eloy Vicente-Francisco wrote.
Netizen Logan Yoro, meanwhile, believes that the number of dogs that “attack people” are the number of owners “who do not know how to handle and properly raise” their pets.
“To be honest all dogs bite but on how to prevent it all goes down to proper training and education,” she stressed.
Aside from being an actress, Antoinette is also known to be an environmental and mental health advocate.
