E361- A Service Dog Bit Someone in the Face — Now What?
No Bad Dogs Podcast
Tom Davis
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Tom speaks with a dog owner who has a service dog that bit her dad in the face. The dog is retired from service dog work but what can you do?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the No Bad Dogs podcast. |
| 0:03.8 | This is amazing. This is something we've never done before. |
| 0:07.5 | And this is a service dog, German Shepherd, that is now becoming aggressive and has a bite history. |
| 0:14.3 | So what do we do? What can we do? |
| 0:17.7 | And more importantly, the reason why it's titled this is like the three steps to |
| 0:22.8 | really figuring out a game plan for your reactive dog or your aggressive dog or the dog has a |
| 0:28.6 | bite. And we go over those things very candidly and very honestly. And we just kind of go over |
| 0:33.5 | like hard things that I don't think a lot of dog trainers are even talking about where |
| 0:37.2 | you guys |
| 0:38.6 | will listen but it's really just about like hey if you get a dog for a very particular thing like a |
| 0:44.3 | working dog and in this case this dog is a working dog is a service dog to help this lady out |
| 0:49.5 | and she's in a wheelchair she's she's handicapped and the dog is biting people and I I'm like, hey, get a new dog. Give the dog back. And that's just a real conversation that a lot of people I think need to hear because pet owners just assume, you know, and it's kind of contradicting for me, I think, on the outside, because you're like, oh, no bad dogs. Like, why would you ever give a dog back? I'm like, no, no, no. No bad dogs means the majority of people who come into my facility and their dog is out of control and pulling them down, it's probably their fault. That's what no bad dogs means. If a dog is doing a bunch of stuff, there's a really good chance that the owners have done all of that. And I'm not saying that |
| 1:27.9 | the owner of this dog didn't make mistakes to make the dog more aggressive or whatever, |
| 1:31.6 | but that doesn't really apply when you have a service dog that you got for a working dog |
| 1:39.0 | that you got for a very particular thing. And the dog can't provide. That's like going to the store and you're buying |
| 1:48.2 | a screwdriver and you get it home and it snaps. What do you do? You return it. You get a new one. |
| 1:53.8 | Right. And there's a huge difference between service dogs, working dogs and pet dogs. That's much different than getting a pet dog and getting a |
| 2:05.1 | shepherd in and the dog gets big. You say, I don't want this anymore. No, that's not good. Or, hey, |
| 2:10.3 | this dog has smelly farts. I want to get rid of this dog. No, that's not okay. Like, that's not okay. |
| 2:15.1 | You get a service dog or a working dog to come into your home to do a very particular |
| 2:20.4 | thing and it does the exact opposite or even makes things worse. |
| 2:24.9 | That is not okay. |
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