Learned a valuable lesson yesterday that accidents can happen with even the most loving dogs. The dog (a pitbull) had managed to destroy her ball and drop the remains in the pool. I saw her standing at the edge of the pool trying to paddle the water towards her to retrieve the ball. I decided to jump in the water and like a dumbass I scooped up the ball from below (rather than above where she could clearly see my hand). The dog immediately chomped down full force on the ball and even with the ball material to protect my hand it felt like someone slammed a car door on it full force. I immediately yelled fuuuuuuck at the top of my lungs and the dog let me go. I think the skin of the ball prevented most of the teeth from entering my hand but I did have a part of my middle fingers flesh hanging off to the side.