Florida Dog Bite Resource Center

Things that are actually useful in the days after a dog bite, when the medical side is handled and nobody has told you what to do next.

All free, all ungated. No form, no email, no download wall.

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• The first 24 hours after a dog bite — what to do, in order, and what stops being possible if you wait.
• Dog bite incident log — a structured record of what happened, written while you still remember it clearly.

Keep a record

• Injury expense tracker — the small scattered costs are the ones that vanish from a claim. Catch them as they happen.
• Witness statement template — witnesses become unreachable within weeks. Prompts to use while you still can.

Tools

• The “Bad Dog” sign checker — Florida’s sign defence can end a claim outright. Work through the conditions the statute actually sets.
• Service animal or emotional support animal? — two Florida statutes, constantly confused. Three questions to find out which one governs your situation. Free to embed.
• What has changed in Florida dog bite law — three significant changes since 2023. A dated record, so you can check whether something you read elsewhere is current.

Understand where you stand

• What affects your claim’s value — a worksheet, not a calculator. What actually moves the number, and what quietly caps it.
• Dog bite prevention for children and families — children are bitten differently from adults. What reduces that risk, and what does not.

Why these exist

Dog bite claims are usually not lost on the law. They are lost on evidence that stopped existing: photographs never taken while the wound was open, a witness nobody got a number for, a sign that got replaced, an animal control file that closed.

None of that requires a lawyer to prevent. It requires somebody telling you, in the first few days, what will matter later. That is what these are for.

If you would rather just ask someone, the case review is free and there is no obligation attached to it.