Dog Bite Prevention Week
Pet Pals LLC • May 4, 2020
Pet Pals Dog Bite Prevention Tip: It is our responsibility to understand canine body language and knowing your own dog’s “dialect” is most important.
National Dog Bite Prevention Week! Nationally, this week is focused on educating people about preventing dog bites. Pet Pals would like to take this opportunity to share ways that you can prevent dog bites from happening in our community.
Unfortunately, people are often unaware that a dog is indicating, “I am worried over here. What is it about STOP that you don’t understand?” Since people and dogs don’t speak the same language and neither is perfectly bilingual between the two dialects, the disconnect can result in a person considering an interaction to be “friendly” while the dog views the same interaction as threatening!
Pet Pals Dog Bite Prevention Tip: It is our responsibility to understand canine body language and knowing your own dog’s “dialect” is most important. Be mindful of your dog’s reactions to people, other dogs, and traffic both near and far. We humans are sometimes so caught up in the surrounding environment and our own self-consciousness that we fail to look down to watch our dogs’ eyes, ears, mouth, tail, and posture. Taking the time and having the awareness of understanding what your dog is communicating can prevent bites or other injuries to people and dogs.
