Dog snapped at us for the first time

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[Islander]

[duhawkz]

What I'm saying is that a vet will have likely studied some form of animal behaviour or animal psychology as part of becoming a vet, and their daily interactions with animals would give them a better understanding of animal behaviour then some random bloke who once saw his parents shout at their dog.

[Rogerborg]

[Triton Thrasher]

[Islander]

[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

[base]

after a 3 second google I found this -Dogs

Man's best friend is also the mammal most likely to kill him. Of the roughly 25,000 people killed by dogs each year, the majority die from rabies.

Over 90 percent of rabies infections in humans worldwide are caused by dog bites, though that number is much lower in the west where rabies has been well contained in canine populations and skunks and bats are more likely than dogs to infect people.

While it is very rare for someone in North America or Western Europe to die of rabies, an estimated 20,000 people die in India each year from the disease due primarily to the prevalence of stray dogs.

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[duhawkz]

I read a different statistic that said there was about 30 fatal dog attacks in the US last year, out of about 4-4.5m dog bites
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[Poundshop Dave]

More often than not it's definitely the owners fault. Human stupidity goes a long way to contribute.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3871166/Neighbor-Michigan-girl-killed-dog-giving-treat.html

I've never known anyone or heard of or read an article about anyone being killed by a Yorkshire Terrier or Jack Russell, inappropriate dogs for children like the above story shows.
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[Poundshop Dave]

I've just Googled JRT human killings and found 2 stories both pertaining to new borns.

Wow, who'd of thought it.
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[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

I had my wires crossed, the toddler was bitten in the face, it was a x month old baby I think I remember.

Would still never get rid of mine though.
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[Poundshop Dave]

I'd never get rid of mine either. Can't get over how stupidly vicious they are regarding other dogs. My JRT will have a go at anything with 4 legs, proper raising up on 2 legs and yanking the lead so she can get to her target whilst barking none stop.

If she ever got to the Doberman that she hates, she'd regret it very quickly, one quick bite and she'd be gone.
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[Rogerborg]

It's a significant cost to their economy, something close to 2% of their population requires hospital treatment for dog bites every year.

Anything else that caused 1 in 50 citizens to be hospitalised would have a brick taken its head, pronto.

It's entirely down to the owners, and nothing to do with the popularity of pit bulls, because only positive breed characteristics are real.
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[Triton Thrasher]

[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

[Islander]

[M.C]

[Baggyman]

[stinkwheel]

I did receive training in animal behaviour at college.

Nowhere near enough in my oppinion to equip me to deal with the variety of behavioural problems I'm expected to deal with as part of my job so I have to keep myself up to date on the subject.

I haven't gone into detail because it's usually a very individual problem that needs individual training. I tend to give advice on simple problems and referr more complex ones to an expert whos techniques I agree with and respect and who has more time to spend with the owners than I do.

Dog training gets very emotive because people have their own views and agendas. One thing that's accepted by the vast majority of practitioners though is the principle of positive reinforcement for good behaviour and ignoring or distracting from bad. I personally also support a time-out if this is the means of avoiding positively reinforcing a bad behaviour (so for example a dog which barks/jumps up incessantly to stop its owner talking to someone else, the dog gets its reward if the conversation is stopped and the dog has its owners attention, even if it's being told it's a bad dog. I often advise both parties flounce out of the room in disgust, leaving the dog there by itself with no reward obtained).

Again a personal and contentious one is I coinsider deviating from this into carefully supervised negative reinforcement for two things: 1) Chasing sheep. 2) Chasing cars.

So yes, I do know what I'm, on about, although perhaps not as much as I'd like to. No it's not the only way and no, I'm not going into more detail because it needs a highly detailed history, possibly a home visit, commitment to a training plan and follow up to fix this problem.

If OP is prepared to travel a bit, I can highly recommend Carrie Evans who has a business called Pet Behaviour Referrals up in Cleaveland.
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