Sentences with phrase «aggressive dog incidents»

Not exact matches

If the dog has bitten before or shown aggressive tendencies toward a human and the owner has knowledge of the incident, the owner is generally held strictly liable for the dogs subsequent actions.»

She has played with many dogs since training and there hasn't been a single aggressive incident!

«The rise in ownership of large dog breeds with a predisposition toward aggressive or dangerous behavior, coupled with the increased risk of tragic incidents involving these dogs, necessitates a uniform policy,» the order states.

«The rise in ownership of large dog breeds with a predisposition toward aggressive or dangerous behavior, coupled with the increased risk of tragic incidents involving these dogs, necessitates a uniform policy,» says the order, which was handed down in August.

Understanding the potential damage a dog is likely to do in future aggressive incidents is one of the most important skills you can have when working with behavior problems.

It is us who randomly tag dogs as aggressive, not friendly or dangerous because of an incident or two.

Restrictions from outright bans to requirements for confinement, insurance, and spay and neuter often follow incidents in which a breed and its crosses are implicated in aggressive incidents or dog fighting or other criminal activity.

For example, intact males constitute 80 percent of all dogs presented to veterinary behaviorists for what formerly has been described as dominance aggression, are involved in 70 to 76 percent of reported dog bite incidents, and are 2.6 times more likely to bite than neutered dogs, while unspayed females «attract free - roaming males, which increases bite risk to people through increased exposure to unfamiliar dogs,» and «contribute to the population of unwanted» and potentially aggressive dogs (Gershman et al., 1993; Sacks et al., 2000; AVMA, 2001).

Interestingly enough, pit bull type dogs do not get the highest billing on reports of which breeds are most likely to be involved in bite incidents or aggressive acts.

Pit bull owners stop socializing their dog or taking it out in public for fear of an incident (a justifiable fear, since the «pit bull» is most likely to be blamed for any incident); they assume the worst about normal dog behaviors like grumbling, snapping, or even rough play between dogs; they fail to act when genuine aggressive behavior does arise, because they believe such behavior is in the dog's nature and is not changeable; and they are told by trainers that the situation is hopeless.

I feel that all too often people read about an incident in the newspaper, and are quick to react with some type of legislation in response to the incident without taking the time to understand what it is that leads dogs to be aggressive in the first place.

While often these conversations happen in the context of dog bite incidents and aggressive behavior, it should be noted that this is also an issue for small dogs and that as a whole, we need to put greater emphasis on teaching responsible dog ownership — regardless of what type of dog people choose to have.