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Jul 6 08 4:01 PM
badkittyamy wrote: I have said it a million times but people will simply continue to go along with the myth that if it attacks other animals or other dogs it will attack children or humans. I am not saying that the dog isn't dangerous but the correlation of it attacked dog it will attack me or my children is utter bullshit. I assure you while dogs aren't as smart as we are they know the difference between other dogs and you the human and other animals. A dog CAN redirect mistakenly from another dog to a human but that in general is after it has started attacking the other dog and someone tries to break up the fight.
I wonder if that's how the idea perpetuates? Someone has a dog-aggressive dog, someone tries to break up a fight and gets bitten, people assume the dog is going from dogs to people when really it was just a bad situation (where it was either accidental, or the dog was too wound up to think.)
Which is not to say that people with poorly controlled dogs shouldn't get in trouble, just because their dog isn't likely to hurt a person- out of control is out of control, and they should do something about it. (And there are people who have dogs with dog aggression problems who manage them quite successfully- but it's not for the average dog owner because of the level of awareness that it requires.) Plus they DO represent a threat to other pet owners, who may get bitten trying to rescue their own dog. So it is something to take quite seriously.
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