Dog bites and what they look like before they happen

[service dog academy]

I was so enraged about the child almost getting bit on Animal Planet Dogs 101 “Family Dog” program I had to write a blog post on it. See how eerily similar the signs in this puggle are to the reporter Kyle Dyer getting her face mauled on live TV.

http://servicedogacademy.com/wp/uncategorized/animalplanet-apdogs101-program-fails-to-educate-public-on-family-dogs/

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[JoB]

i couldn’t watch the clip of the dog mauling the reporter..

but yes.. understanding how your pets react to you is as important if not more important than how you react to them.

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[DBP]

On the puggle video, I’ll agree with you that the parents should be teaching their kids not to annoy/threaten the dog like that. However, I don’t agree with the way you’re characterizing the dog’s response.

You’re making it sound like the puggle was “that close” to mangling the kid’s hand, when to me it just looks like a well-timed warning snarl.(Bravo, pooch!)

I watched the TV variety show clip you linked to as well, and, here again, I think you’re overdoing it.

You think the dog “mauled” that lady? Seriously?

All the dog did was nip her nose, which, considering how she was provoking him, showed remarkable restraint on the dog’s part, don’t you think.

In the second video, I put the blame squarely on the shoulders of the dog’s owner, who should’ve warned his pet about the unpredictable behavior of talk show hosts.

P.S. I actually found that second clip kinda funny . . . which will no doubt evoke some righteous outrage.

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[service dog academy]

DPB, did you even bother to find out what this woman went through after she got bit? She is physically scarred for life. You call 90 stitches, multiple surgeries and skin grafts a “nip on the nose”? Give me a break.

http://www.ksee24.com/news/video/Injured-Anchor-Returns-140390783.html

“I didn’t realize the extent of the injury. I knew it was bad when my lips didn’t touch anymore,” she said.

“I put my hand like this,” Kyle said touching her face. “I realized all the blood – the top part of my lip here was gone.”…

After four hours of surgery at Denver Health Medical Center, 70 stitches and a skin graft, Kyle started her recovery….

Kyle had her second surgery on Monday. She was given 20 new stitches and had the 70 stitches that were initially put in on February 8th removed….

For two weeks, Kyle wasn’t physically able to talk after her series of reconstructive surgeries, but she can now….

“It may be six months, or never, to get feeling back,” she said. “I just wake up every day, take my meds, put on lotion and sunscreen, have to for all this new skin, talk with my family and pray.”

We don’t know when Kyle will be back on the air.

She’ll spend a couple of months making her lip better and then come back stronger than ever.

“Right now, this is all I can do – a half smile. I’ll smile again, maybe just a different smile,” she said.

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[JoB]

sometimes, trivializing is not the right response.

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[DBP]

I’m sorry, Jo, but the dramatizing response in females always brings out the teasing response in me, as you well know.

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Mary, I have the greatest respect for what you do. I understand that in your business you need to be attuned to the cues animals use to communicate.

But please understand: that’s you. That’s not most people.

It’s not reasonable to expect the average person to be able to look at an animal like you do and know precisely what that animal is thinking, or what it’s going to do next.

Fortunately, a little common sense will go a long way in most human/dog situations. Take the puggle, for example. Chances are good that the kid in that video will eventually be nipped (if he hasn’t been already). And you know what? It’ll probably do him a world of good. That’s how he’ll learn.

In the second clip, with the Dogo Argentino, that’s a very different situation. But common sense still applies. The Dogo is an inherently dangerous dog, with a bone-crushing bite and a strong protective instinct. In that case, no amount of “reading the animal” is going to compensate for the threat this animal presents in situations that are unfamiliar or otherwise threatening to it.

I’m not sure why the dog was on that show. Were they trying to say that this is a good family dog? In that case, there was a failure of common sense — on the part of both the dog’s owner and the TV show producer.

The show’s host didn’t use common sense either, of course, kissing the dog and rubbing it all over its face.

Sadly, she’s the one who got bit.

 

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[anonyme]

In defense of DBP, there was absolutely no indication from the video clip that either the attack or the reporter’s injuries were as extensive as detailed in post #4. I once saw an almost identical video/scenario of a reporter whose face ended up in the jaws of a german shepherd, and it happened on camera – not off. The blame is twofold: first, the producers who put inherently unstable and potentially dangerous dogs on television with the misguided intention of showing how cute and cuddly and safe they are. Second, the stupid reporters who rub and kiss and shove their faces within crushing range of massive jaws. That’s an absolutely insane approach to any strange dog, and even some familiar ones. So many people tend to forget that dog boundaries are not the same as human ones – but it’s a lesson that every child should be taught.

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