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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm going to copypaste pp because they get it and a lot of y'all need to.

"[b]There's always a warning. People just tend to either ignore it or misread it.[/b] In this instance, the person in question should definitely have had the dogs separated and should have paid more attention. People who foster dogs should probably be required to take a class, but typically they aren't and rescue groups are mostly volunteers so here we are."

People ought to have a certification tests and an actual license to own animals the same way you need a license to drive a car. All dogs can bite, and the person on-duty is responsible for the animal(s) in their care.

"[b]There is no such thing as attacking without provocation/ out of the blue.[/b] Sounds like there are many people on here who do not understand dog behaviour and should not be owners if you believe stuff like this. Unless your dog is cujo, there are always signs. If you ignore them and an animal gets hurt, that’s your fault as the supervising human."

Seriously. If you don't understand dogs, you'll think it's "out of the blue" when, to a more experienced/intelligent owner/handler, there are all kinds of signs. Even Cujo had signs, and a dog like that is a known issue; they don't "just snap" the way some of your idiots would allege.

If you're not willing to learn how dogs work, at least enough to handle them safely, you shouldn't have or handle dogs.

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Okay, so I was the babysitter in this case who was attacked by the family's dog.  I was 17 years old when I was attacked.  What warning signs and obligations did I, as the person in the house have and ability to correct the dog that bit me.  For what it's worth I did prevent the young children in the house from being bitten, my putting myself physically between them.

So this whole "there are always signs". [b] If your dog is dangerous enough that someone has to be a dog mind reader to be safe around your dog[/b], you are a bad dog owner who handed someone a hand grenade.

It's on the owners.[/quote]

Agree with this. You shouldn't need a PhD in dog body language analysis to be around a dog.

Our doodle is fantastic - the kids roughhouse with her, I've accidentally stepped on her tail, I can take literally anything from her mouth, there's zero aggression. Never even a growl. That should be the standard for dogs. [/quote]

You can have all of that and more and that's great. It doesn't mean your dog will never have a negative interaction with another dog. Putting two strange dogs together in one home without proper introductions and vetting is newbie BS and asking for trouble. The sitter was delusional to think this was a good idea. Sure, it could be fine. [b]But a dog could meet your described standard and still get into it with another dog even if they never would with a human.[/b]  [/quote]

This is correct. No amount of training will make a dog any less what it is: at the end of the day, it's a dog. While it may respect human boundaries and conditioning, it is still fluent in dog, and aware of and subject to the rules between dogs. If you're not well-versed in that, you need to keep your dog (or the dog(s) in your care) away from other dogs.[/quote]

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