by Niki Tudge | Dec 22, 2022 | Bite Prevention, Dog Bite Education
By Niki Tudge All behaviors that dogs exhibit are designed either to access pleasurable situations and desirable objects or to avoid and escape unpleasant situations and undesirable objects. (Note: This is based on what each individual dog considers to pleasant or...
by Niki Tudge | Aug 3, 2021 | Dog Bite Education
A dog’s communication systems are greatly ritualized, and have evolved specifically to avoid or cut off conflict. This has made dogs, as a species, very successful in terms of their numbers, variety, and adaptability. Things, however, can go awry when we humans...
by Niki Tudge | Mar 11, 2017 | Dog Bite Education
A Doggone Safe Educational Resource Play Date Checklist When a child wants to go to at a friend's house, a responsible parent asks some basic questions. For example: will a parent be home? Does the family have a pool? Is the yard fenced? Are there guns in the house...
