Dr. Ian Dunbar — San Francisco Adolescent Dogs: Biting, Dog-Human Aggression
Added by: Pepper
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Three Measures to Prevent Dog Bites
1. Teach dogs to enjoy the presence, actions, and antics of all people, first the family and then friends and strangers, especially children and men. Adult dogs tend to feel most uneasy around children and men, especially around little boys. A dog’s antipathy toward children and men is more likely to develop if the puppy grows up with few or no children or men around, and if the puppy’s social contacts with children and men have been unpleasant or scary.
2. Teach dogs to enjoy being hugged and handled (restrained and examined) by people, especially by children, veterinarians, and groomers. Specifically, teach dogs to enjoy being touched and handled in a variety of “hot spots,” namely, around its collar, ears, paws, muzzle, tail, and rear end.
3. Teach dogs to enjoy giving up valued objects when requested, especially its food bowl, bones, balls, chewtoys, garbage, and paper tissues.
Reader comments
Hi Pepper,
Thank you so much for posting my SF seminar. What a nice surprise.
I am very excited about my new US seminar series. There is simply so much new and ground-breaking material that has emerged in the past three years, most especially a learning theory redux, i.e., tweaking computer-generated learning theory for more efficient and effective application by human brains. I find this stuff so exciting, especially the obvious notion that whereas effective feedback in binary, punishment need not and therefore, should not, be aversive. I think a reinvention of pet dog training is LONG overdue.