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Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett

Why All Dogs Can Bite and How to Reduce the Risk with R.E.A.D. #25

Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett

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Education, Puppy, Recallers, Animalbehaviour, Dogs, Kids & Family, Pets, Dogtraining, Dogsthat, Petmanners, Susangarrett, Pets & Animals

4.8 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

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We all have an important role to play in reducing the number of dog bites, in particular dog bites to children. Recent statistics on dog bites show that 77% of biting is by the family dog or a friend’s dog. It’s up to us to protect children, anyone who comes into contact with our dog, and our dog. I’ve got actionable strategies for you, and it all starts with how to R.E.A.D. a dog.

 

In the episode you'll hear:

 

  • What recent studies on dog bites tell us.
  • How to use the acronym R.E.A.D. for everyone’s safety, including your dog’s.
  • Why we can’t just assume our dog will get along with children.
  • How our dogs respond to our stress.
  • Why a dog’s emotional state increases the risk of a bite.
  • The actions you can take to be an advocate for your dog.
  • Things you can’t know about a dog and why proactivity is vital.
  • What it looks like to have a safe interaction with a dog.
  • What you can teach children for their safety around dogs.
  • Why to believe what your dog is telling you.
  • What to do if your dog growls at a child.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome to Shape by Dog. I am Susan Garrett and today, super special podcast.

0:16.9

As a community, let's get together and let's reduce the number of dog bites. Let's reduce in

0:25.0

particular the number of children that get bit by dogs every year. And it's massive.

0:31.3

If you're anything like me, when I was a kid, it was just an expectation that dogs get along

0:36.2

with kids, right? Dogs are good people.

0:38.3

If you go back to episode three in here and shaped by dog, I talk about how Hollywood has made

0:42.7

it really difficult for dogs.

0:44.9

And this is one area they sure have made it difficult.

0:48.7

Because even when I got my first dog in my late 20s, there was an expectation that yeah,

0:53.3

you're just going to get along with kids

0:54.8

because I have a lot of nieces and nephews. I love children. So, yeah, get along with kids.

1:00.2

That's the way you do. But I just was lucky that that first dog of mine did get along with

1:05.6

children because, well, let's get into this. First of all, in the United States alone, 100 people an hour get bit by dogs every day of every hour.

1:20.8

A hundred people an hour. So over the course of a day, 900 people a day in the United States require attention at the

1:31.2

emergency center of a hospital. More than half of those people are children. Of those dog bites

1:37.3

that happen, 77% are by the family dog or a friend's dog. So it's like friendly fire. It's dogs that we know and we think

1:50.1

we can trust. And if you believe, as I do, that our dogs are doing the best they can with

1:58.5

the information or the education we've given them in the environment that we've

2:03.1

asked them to perform. Where have we gone wrong? It's both. We've put these dogs in an

2:09.1

environment where, as my mentor Bob Bailey says, we expect way too much of our dogs and way

2:15.8

too little of ourselves. So what can we do about it?

2:19.3

And that's where I want to talk to you today.

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