Good advice on recognizing an impending dog attack.
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Very good article. I’ve noticed this as far back as when I was the paper boy during my deliveries. Strangely it was usually it was not the customer’s dog but the neighbor’s.
I experienced the “door to door” knocking situation when canvassing for support in a municipal election. (a very small municipality)
Have never been afraid of dogs and pretty well had one on hand most of my life. Normally mongrels, but some labs over the decades.
My usual approach, when a dog was about, was to ignore it, knock on the door and only acknowledge the dog when the door was answered. If the owner acknowledged the dog I would also, voters like their dogs, unless I was advised to keep on ignoring it, which I did.
The only time of concern was walking up a sidewalk and a little terrier looked at me started a bark and he knew and I knew he would bite. I slowly walked backwards and went on to the next door to knock on.
BTW; I was elected for three terms and did not receive a bite or a nip in a dog enhanced rural community. Cheers;
Same advice applies to humans.
This obviously is a subject close to your heart, Kate. Perhaps you can answer this for me:
I header/read that wild dogs/wolves do not bark or yelp; it would give their position away to predators and prey. Why have domesticated dogs learnt to do this? They still have the same phyisiogony as the wild dogs.
Today’s Lesson: Aggressiveness in dogs, and what to do about it: 101
If you are on somebody else’s property and the dog is acting aggressively, he’s doing it for a reason, so get the hell off the property, you’re not supposed to be there.
If you are on your property and a dog is acting aggressively to you your family or your livestock, shoot the damn thing and be done with it. It’s not supposed to be there. (and give your dog a boot in the arse for not running it off in the first place.
Alternately, if it is your dog acting aggressively to you, your family or your livestock, shoot the damn thing too, because you’re never going to be able to trust it again.
Then give your self a boot in the arse, because you’re a lousy dog owner/trainer.
BTW, if you need to have anyone else train your dog for you, you didn’t deserve one in the first place anyway.
If you are walking down the street or any other public property and a dog is acting aggressively to you while not on a leash, take evasive action, and if can find the owner, and give him a boot in the arse, because he doesn’t deserve to own a dog.
If the aggressive dog is on a leash, at least you won’t have too look for the idiot so he can get his arse kickin…
Ms Wildeman knows less about dogs than I do about quantem physics (see I can’t even spell it…), anyone who depends on interpreting so called consistent “signals” to determine a dog’s aggressiveness or whether it is about to lunge/attack is going to get bitten. Or worse. Train your dog and you won’t get bit. Train your dog, and no one else will get bit either. It’s people like this self proclaimed dog “expert” who get people hurt.
Moron
Dog ownership is not a right, it is a privilege, and should be restricted to those who know a with more than two brain cells to rub together.
Too bad Ms Wildeman is about 50% short
edit last lines:
Dog ownership is not a right, it is a privilege, and should be restricted to those who have more than two brain cells to rub together.
Too bad Ms Wildeman is at least 50% short
My vet was just on television (local PBS – about an hour before this comment) on how to prevent animal bites. Mostly the same advice. http://youtu.be/yLGoBMU-FMI
My young English Bull Terrier does the “stock still creepy stare tail up” to my old dachshund and sent him to the vet a couple times before I devided my house with a gate. A behaviorist and trainer were helpful but think the dachsund is initiating it. All the dogs I have had over the years not once have I seen this behavior or ever had to spring for professional help. We’ll keep the training up and hope she’ll mellow out with age. She’s mine for life and I love her but she is a pain in the arse.
a dog that silently stares is a MALE dog that has been married for a long time:-)))
Very good article. I’ve noticed this as far back as when I was the paper boy during my deliveries. Strangely it was usually it was not the customer’s dog but the neighbor’s.
I experienced the “door to door” knocking situation when canvassing for support in a municipal election. (a very small municipality)
Have never been afraid of dogs and pretty well had one on hand most of my life. Normally mongrels, but some labs over the decades.
My usual approach, when a dog was about, was to ignore it, knock on the door and only acknowledge the dog when the door was answered. If the owner acknowledged the dog I would also, voters like their dogs, unless I was advised to keep on ignoring it, which I did.
The only time of concern was walking up a sidewalk and a little terrier looked at me started a bark and he knew and I knew he would bite. I slowly walked backwards and went on to the next door to knock on.
BTW; I was elected for three terms and did not receive a bite or a nip in a dog enhanced rural community. Cheers;
Same advice applies to humans.
This obviously is a subject close to your heart, Kate. Perhaps you can answer this for me:
I header/read that wild dogs/wolves do not bark or yelp; it would give their position away to predators and prey. Why have domesticated dogs learnt to do this? They still have the same phyisiogony as the wild dogs.
Today’s Lesson: Aggressiveness in dogs, and what to do about it: 101
If you are on somebody else’s property and the dog is acting aggressively, he’s doing it for a reason, so get the hell off the property, you’re not supposed to be there.
If you are on your property and a dog is acting aggressively to you your family or your livestock, shoot the damn thing and be done with it. It’s not supposed to be there. (and give your dog a boot in the arse for not running it off in the first place.
Alternately, if it is your dog acting aggressively to you, your family or your livestock, shoot the damn thing too, because you’re never going to be able to trust it again.
Then give your self a boot in the arse, because you’re a lousy dog owner/trainer.
BTW, if you need to have anyone else train your dog for you, you didn’t deserve one in the first place anyway.
If you are walking down the street or any other public property and a dog is acting aggressively to you while not on a leash, take evasive action, and if can find the owner, and give him a boot in the arse, because he doesn’t deserve to own a dog.
If the aggressive dog is on a leash, at least you won’t have too look for the idiot so he can get his arse kickin…
Ms Wildeman knows less about dogs than I do about quantem physics (see I can’t even spell it…), anyone who depends on interpreting so called consistent “signals” to determine a dog’s aggressiveness or whether it is about to lunge/attack is going to get bitten. Or worse. Train your dog and you won’t get bit. Train your dog, and no one else will get bit either. It’s people like this self proclaimed dog “expert” who get people hurt.
Moron
Dog ownership is not a right, it is a privilege, and should be restricted to those who know a with more than two brain cells to rub together.
Too bad Ms Wildeman is about 50% short
edit last lines:
Dog ownership is not a right, it is a privilege, and should be restricted to those who have more than two brain cells to rub together.
Too bad Ms Wildeman is at least 50% short
My vet was just on television (local PBS – about an hour before this comment) on how to prevent animal bites. Mostly the same advice.
http://youtu.be/yLGoBMU-FMI
My young English Bull Terrier does the “stock still creepy stare tail up” to my old dachshund and sent him to the vet a couple times before I devided my house with a gate. A behaviorist and trainer were helpful but think the dachsund is initiating it. All the dogs I have had over the years not once have I seen this behavior or ever had to spring for professional help. We’ll keep the training up and hope she’ll mellow out with age. She’s mine for life and I love her but she is a pain in the arse.
a dog that silently stares is a MALE dog that has been married for a long time:-)))