THE DOG AGGRESSION INDUSTRY.
Research conducted into the escalating incidence of dog attacks on children by the dog industry's watch dog body - The International Institute for Child Safety.
This has been done by correlating reports of attacks in:
- The media;
- Veterinary journals;
- Dog experts;
- Medical Journals.
I
We have a problem. In spite of (or is it because of?) the increased access of dog experts to the media and to national and international propaganda channels, dog aggression is escalating sharply.
II
According to the media and to Medical Journals most dog attacks are by trusted family pets.
III
There is a vital gap that needs to be filled: i.e. educating the public on how to keep children safe from dog attacks.
IV
The mainstream dog system hasn’t a clue how to go about this, and barely pretends to have one.
V
How are they able to get away with this scam??
(This is how…)
VI
So why do some dogs kill and other dogs not?
INTRODUCTION.
In 1985 our head ethologist, Pam Whyte noticed a sharp increase in dog aggression. Pam approached the media with her concern and were told: “Let’s wait until a few more children have been killed, then we will have a peg to hang our hat on.”
She then approached the veterinarian profession and were told not to interfere.
She then published a book, and it was blocked after receiving rave reviews and a runaway first edition.
Then, when asked to write articles on child safety in baby and family magazines, on giving information that prevents “out of the blue” dog attacks by family pets, she wa told on each occasion by the journalists that they “got into serious trouble" and "were no longer allowed to touch us”.
She was merely teaching kind, easy and proven natural principles that kept children (and adults) safe from dog attack.
She was eventually told by a pharmaceutical company: “if you go to the media with your research results, we will have you closed down.” The media wouldn’t touch her due to the possibility of sponsorship and advertising being withdrawn, so there was no chance there either.
Lucky Dog....
Mary and her husband Jim had a dog named 'Lucky.'
Lucky was a real character. Whenever Mary and Jim had company come for a weekend visit they would warn their friends to not leave their luggage open because Lucky would help himself to whatever struck his fancy. Inevitably, someone would forget and something would come up missing.
Mary or Jim would go to Lucky's toy box in the basement and there the treasure would be, amid all of Lucky's other favourite toys Lucky always stashed his finds in his toy box and he was very particular that his toys stay in the box.
It happened that Mary found out she had breast cancer.
Finally the day came for Mary to leave the hospital. When she arrived home, Mary was so exhausted she soon fell asleep on the couch. Lucky stood watching her but he didn't come to her when she called. Soon sleep overcame her and she dozed.
When she woke for a second she couldn't understand what was wrong. She couldn't move her head and her body f felt heavy and hot. But panic soon gave way to laughter when Mary realized the problem. She was covered, literally blanketed, with every treasure Lucky owned! While she had slept, the sorrowing dog had made trip after trip to the basement bringing his beloved mistress all his favourite things in life.
He had covered her with his love.
Mary forgot about dying. Instead she and Lucky began living again, walking further and further together every day. It's been 12 years now and Mary is still cancer-free. Lucky He still steals treasures and stashes them in his toy box but Mary remains his greatest treasure.
…or is it to be this:
Quote by:
CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL: ’People with both children and a dog may indicate that the dog will be a long-term companion to the child as it grows and even protect the child against outside dangers. Unfortunately, there is evidence that strongly supports the view that there is a greater likelihood that a dog will bite a child in the family than protect it from an external threat. “
Time magazine June 1997 says: “Man’s Best Friend? Not Any More!” and then puts it in a nutshell by saying: “We do not know where the dog’s safety catch is”. [And that is where we come in.]
What is needed, and what we are aiming at, is to put dogs into the same category as crossing a street, for instance. I.e. –To not only teach safety around cars, but also teach drivers how to drive safely, through only techniques that have been proven to work in the long term.
I
We have a problem. In spite of (or is it because of?) the increased access of dog experts to national and international propaganda channels, dog aggression is escalating sharply.
The public speaking in forums:
Four years ago I was bitten by a dog when I was on my holidays in the Ukraine. After that I came back to the UK and went to see a doctor. I was prescribed antibiotics, but it was not successful. I went to see doctors three time. I suffered near two month and it was not successful. I never head before, that dogs bite take so long to recover. I decided to do what people in the Ukraine do in this case. I put leaf of aloe vera on my wound and it was recovered in two days.
Nataliya Bukharina, Leyland
am 37 and was attacked last year and left badly scarred with 15 puncture wounds to my body. The dog was a Chow-Chow that I was taking home for a neighbour - he attacked me for no reason and with no warning.
Last year my four-year-old son was mauled in the face by a friend's "cute" cocker spaniel. He is scarred for life. I think that we need a major campaign to change people's perspective on dogs.
A survey by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta ("CDC") concluded that dogs bite nearly 2% of the U.S. population -- more than 4.7 million people annually. (Sacks JJ, Kresnow M, Houston B. Dog bites: how big a problem? Injury Prev 1996;2:52-4.) Very difficult to get new statistics but quotes state that dog aggression has doubled in the last decade. The killing of a one-year-old boy is the latest in a string of violent dog attacks that have scarred for life, seriously injured or killed children and adults.
- Incidence of dog bites in Milwaukee, wis.
Ndon JA, Jach GJ, Wehrenberg WB.
Department of Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53211, USA.
Dogs are everywhere. The incidence of and injuries caused by dog bites have grown to such epidemic proportions in certain parts of the United States that they are now considered a major public health concern. Playful Rover is no longer a harmless pet….Study results suggest a need to educate the public about the magnitude of dog-bite problems...
The Independent.
The Big Question: How frequent are maulings by dogs, and how can you tell if one is vicious?
By Terri Judd
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
How frequent are dog attacks?
Jaden is the fourth British child to die in such an attack in 30 months. Figures are hard to collate because many people will not report violence by their own pets. However, NHS figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats last year showed that the number of people attending casualty units following dog attacks had risen by more than 40 per cent since 2004.
“Tens of thousands bitten by dogs
By VIKKI THOMAS
Published: 03 Jun 2008
A TOTAL of 78,000 people visited A&E with dog bites between 2006 and 2007 shock figures released today revealed.
And nearly 5,000 of those had to be admitted to hospital.
This is a massive increase from ten years ago when the figure was almost half that, at 2683.
About 1,000 of the latest patients to be admitted in 2006/07 were KIDS.
Speaking at the RSPCA summer conference Chief Constable Richard Brumstrom said: "We do have a problem and it is growing much worse, 1,000 kids going into hospital because they have been bitten by a dog seems to me like bad news."
A report from Animal Welfare Forum J.A.M.V.A. says: “Dog bites are the second most costly public health problem in the United States, exceeded only by sexually transmitted diseases.”
Time says dog bites that caused people to seek medical care doubled in 10 years to 800,000.
Hospitals see rise in dog bites
By Branwen Jeffreys
Health correspondent, BBC News Wednesday, 27 February 2008, 00:01 GMT
The number of people treated for dog
bites at hospitals in England has risen
sharply, according to figures obtained
by the Liberal Democrats.
NHS statistics show the number attending
A&E after a dog attack has risen by more
than 40% in the last four years.
A survey by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta ("CDC") concluded that dogs bite nearly 2% of the U.S. population -- more than 4.7 million people annually. (Sacks JJ, Kresnow M, Houston B. Dog bites: how big a problem? Injury Prev 1996;2:52-4.) Very difficult to get new statistics but quotes state that dog aggression has doubled in the last decade;
The epidemiology of bite injuries by vertebrate animals in Switzerland.
Matter HC, Sentinella Arbeitsgemeinschaft.
Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, Bern.
Animal bites in Switzerland represent a public health issue of growing importance
Dog bite injuries.
Marsh L, Langley J, Gauld R.
Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, Dunedin, New Zealand.
The incidence rate of dog bites has continued to increase from that reported previously. There has been a increase in recent years. CONCLUSIONS: Dog bite injuries represent a significant public health problem in New Zealand.
Public opinion in an open forum:
Last year my four-year-old son was mauled in the face by a friend's "cute" cocker spaniel. He is scarred for life. I think that we need a major campaign to change people's perspective on dogs.
Dr. John Wright: We will not find a solution to the dog aggression epidemic until we shift our perspective.
So let’s go for it, shall we…. (See end of article for explanations on items that have*.)
II
According to Medical Journals most dog attacks are by trusted family pets.
- Incidence of dog bites in Milwaukee, wis.
Ndon JA, Jach GJ, Wehrenberg WB.
Department of Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53211, USA.
Dogs are everywhere. The incidence of and injuries caused by dog bites have grown to such epidemic proportions in certain parts of the United States that they are now considered a major public health concern. Playful Rover is no longer a harmless pet….Study results suggest a need to educate the public about the magnitude of dog-bite problems...
CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL, Dr. Gilchrist: Of the dog bites to children that will occur each year, most will involve the family dog or a dog that belongs to someone the family knows. In other words, the problem is mostly with owned dogs, not strays.
Dog bites of the scalp, face, and neck in children.
Mitchell RB, Nanez G, Wagner JD, Kelly J.
Department of Surgery, University of New Mexico, Children's Hospital of New Mexico, 915 Camino de Salud, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
CONCLUSIONS: The injured child is typically a 5-year-old boy attacked by a familiar dog at home or in the local neighborhood.
Release of epidemiologic survey of dog bites in 2007 BMJ
Dog attacks are tragic events. Children are often the victims and a family pet is usually involved…. 368,245 persons were treated
Epidemic Intelligence Service, CDC, 1600 Clifton Rd SE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
Comment in: Pediatrics. 2000 Mar;
Severe dog bites in children. Brogan TV, Bratton SL, Dowd MD, Hegenbarth MA. University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA.
CONCLUSIONS. Large dogs that are familiar to the child are usually involved.
DON'T LEAVE CHILDREN ALONE WITH DOGS, WARNS EXPERT
The child was snatched from the arms of his aunt by the female family pet in Wakefield, West Yorkshire yesterday.
He later died in Pinderfields General Hospital.
The killing of a one-year-old boy is the latest in a string of violent dog attacks that have scarred for life, seriously injured or killed children and adults.
Baby mauled to death by two pet dogs was attacked after his grandmother fell asleep, an inquest has heard.
Three-and-a-half month old Jaden Joseph Mack was fatally injured by a Jack Russell and Staffordshire bull terrier, who grabbed him from a table…
"We never thought it could happen to us,”
Bernardo LM, Gardner MJ, Rosenfield RL, Cohen B, Pitetti R.
University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Pennsylvania 15261, USA.
Young children frequently sustain dog bites from their family dog in their own homes.
Archie-Lee. aged one, savaged to death by a rottweiler
Published Date: 29 December 2007
The teenage aunt of a 13-month-old boy mauled to death by a rottweiler bravely fought to rescue the tot from the jaws of the 10-stone dog, police said today.
He added that the dog had not acted aggressively before: "It is a common pedigree breed. It is not a dangerous dog by dangerous dog definition, and lots of families all over the country will have similar dogs that don't cause any problems.
"It has mixed with the family, it is a pet, it is in no way a guard dog, and there has been no previous signs of any aggression from this dog. It was completely unpredictable.*
Councillor Stone said: "It is absolutely horrendous. We have seen these kind of incidents before.
Baby girl mauled to death by Rottweilers who snatched from cot in pub, court told.Last updated at 18:57 29 April 2008
Det Insp David Richardson, of Leicestershire police, said some witnesses had described the dogs as friendly animals who liked being petted.
Baby mauled to death by two pet dogs.
Three-and-a-half month old Jaden Joseph Mack was fatally injured by a Jack Russell and Staffordshire bull terrier, who grabbed him from a table…
"We never thought it could happen to us,”
Rottweiler kills girl, 3, in Fort Worth
08:06 PM CST on Saturday, January 17, 2009
By CHRIS HAWES / WFAA-TV
January 17th, 2009
A 3-year-old girl has been killed by a dog in Fort Worth.
The attack took place Friday evening at the 3900 block of Buckhorn Place.
When officers arrived on scene, paramedics had already transported the girl to Cook Children's Hospital, where she was pronounced dead around 7 p.m. She was breathing when she was found but it was too late to save her.
It was the Rottweiler's owner who discovered her, bleeding in the yard. She said the dog in his 17 years had never hurt anybody.
“From a dog forum: …There was another news item several month ago. A dog had bitten off the face of it's owner, Princess Goodwin whilst she slept. I read a lot of stuff about this.”
“saw this on This Morning yesterday. She didn't know what had caused the greyhound to attack her. She did look after him well as she loved him and he had never ever shown any aggression before this happened “
DON'T LEAVE CHILDREN ALONE WITH DOGS, WARNS EXPERT
The child was snatched from the arms of a seven-year-old girl by the female family pet in Wakefield, West Yorkshire yesterday.
He later died in Pinderfields General Hospital.The killing of a one-year-old boy is the latest in a string of violent dog attacks that have scarred for life, seriously injured or killed children and adults.”
Jackie Simpson, 45, was baby-sitting Ellie when she let the pit bull terrier into her house on Merseyside.
Ms Simpson replied: "I wouldn't have thought it could have done that to a baby it had grown up with."
When man's best friend becomes the enemy
Article from: Sunday Herald Sun
January 20, 2008 12:00am
NOBODY knows exactly how many people in Victoria are bitten, mauled or traumatised by dogs each year.
A recent survey of councils in Victoria found there were 3300 reported dog attacks in one year - that's about 63 incidents a week, or nine attacks a day.
No matter what the statistics, anyone who is the victim of an attack by an angry or disturbed dog can suffer significant physical and emotional trauma.
In some cases, hospital care or even death are the end results. Over Christmas, a nine-week-old baby girl was dragged from her cot and killed by a pet rottweiler. Horrified family members found the baby with severe head and neck wounds. Paramedics revived the baby after she went into cardiac arrest and the child was to be flown to the Royal Children's Hospital for emergency treatment.
Sadly, she died before the air ambulance arrived.
The dog was seized by council officers and taken from the family's property.
About the same time, a two-year-old girl needed stitches after she was bitten by a "long-haired labrador" on her family's country property.
"She had been playing with the dog all day long without any worries," a Rural Ambulance spokesman says.
I am 37 and was attacked last year and left badly scarred with 15 puncture wounds to my body. The dog was a Chow-Chow that I was taking home for a neighbour - he attacked me for no reason and with no warning.*
18 fatalities from dog bite have occurred
thus far in the United States in 2008
Lexington Kentucky, January 2008
The victim in this case was a six-week-old infant sleeping on the bed in his mother's room. The child was alone in the bedroom, and his mother was in an adjacent room when for reasons that are unclear*, the family dog, a Jack Russell terrier, attacked the child. Those who knew this particular Jack Russell terrier, said it was a kind of dog who would never harm anyone at all.*
The victim in this maulling was an 8 month old infant who was attacked by a family pet: a neutered, male seven-year-old Doberman pinscher, which the owners had since the dog was a puppy.
The story as reported in the January 4, 2008 edition of the New York Times, indicates that the dog had been with the family since it was a puppy, and had shown no previous aggressive tendencies towards people.*
At the time of the incident, the toddler was on the floor in the living room of the apartment, being cared for and watched by the grandmother
Man sees boerboel rip wife to death
May 29 2005
A lovable, three-year-old family pet turned into a treacherous killer this week when he attacked his owner with such savagery that she died within minutes from multiple bites and deep lacerations.
Rita who lives on the farm with her fellow teacher husband, was carrying a basket of washing to the line when the couple's pet, Butch, suddenly attacked her for no apparent reason.
"It is too terrible for words. Our dog Butch has never shown any aggression towards my wife.*
Man's nose bitten off
Die Beeld.
There were two dogs, a labrador and a Rottweiler. Siepker said he had never had problems with the two dogs before*.
But as he was sitting on his haunches, petting the labrador, the Rottweiler suddenly jumped forward and snapped at his face.
"The next moment there was blood everywhere," he said.
The victim was 24-year-old lady who apparently was alone at the time she was attacked by two family pit bulls, a four-year-old male and one year old female, who never had previously displayed aggression towards family members, according to those who knew the dogs. The victim was discovered when her husband, who had left for work earlier, returned home that evening.
It's horrible to think the man was lying there dead, just minutes after the woman had started screaming," said Venter.
"The dogs have never been a problem. Now and again, I heard them fighting, but they were usually brought under control."* he said.
The San Francisco Dog Mauling
Insights into the fatal dog attack on Diane Whipple My argument is that there was no basis to conclude that Bane and Hera were vicious prior to January 26th. If this be the case, then how in the world would one expect Knoller to know?* I do not believe that Knoller knew, or could have anticipated, that her dogs would attack in a manner so severe that it would be lethal to a person.
· Knoller's Defense:
o No one had ever complained about Bane and
Hera's past displays of aggression;
o Bane and Hera were well-behaved and
nonaggressive the vast majority of time;
o Knoller and Noel were responsible owners* who
kept Bane and Hera as pets.
The Princess Royal became the first British royal to have a criminal record when one her dogs bit two children in Windsor Great Park. *
(Oops.)
III
There is a vital gap that needs to be filled: i.e. educating the public on how dogs perceive our actions, and how their central nervous system and instincts function.
None of this information is available through the mainstream dog system, and because it holds the solution to all behaviour problems in domestic dogs, including aggression, it is kept from the dog owning public.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
Dog bite injuries in children are a preventable health problem.
Child victims of dog bites treated in emergency departments: a prospective survey.
Kahn A, Bauche P, Lamoureux J; Dog Bites Research Team.
Hopital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola, Av. J.J. Crocq 15, 1020, Brussels, Belgium.
CONCLUSION: To reduce the frequency of dog bites both at home and in public places, education could be the preventive measure with the highest priority. Out of 100 accidents, 67 children might not have been bitten had they and their parents been adequately educated on safe conduct towards dogs.
The culprit is not always the child – in fact it's generally not. This is how misperceptions are created that it is the owner's fault. Archie Lee was stroking the dog when he was snatched from his aunt's arms. Does that not fall under “safe conduct'? Sophia was just walking along a path when she was ambushed by the dogs that tried to kill her. Jaden was fast asleep….
Sure, there will be some children who will tease dogs, but not all dogs retaliate, some large dogs just walk away – these are dogs that are not stressed or confused, that have a cool head and a strongly developed sense of right and wrong. Which is what Nature's formula for obedience teaches. Ever heard these wonderful qualities described and discussed by the dog system? Of course not!
Dog owners, however, automatically presume that these goals will be achieved by taking their dogs to training and puppy socializing and putting them on expensive dog food (which is usually full of steroids, making dogs very hyperactive and difficult to handle). But unfortunately, the dog system's goals are not their goals…
Because they both teach dog owners how to feed, train, socialize and rear their dogs – AND profit from behaviour problems, the situation is not unlike taking driving lessons from a panel beater. “The brakes are in the middle, and the accelerator is on the right – and here's my card…” They want you in their workshop.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
Dog bite injuries in children are a preventable health problem.
The average age of the children was 6.2 +/- 4.2 years, with an average weight of 23.3 +/- 13.7 kg. The children under 5 years of age suffered the most devastating injuries. More than half of these attacks were not provoked. More than two-thirds of the injuries to these children involved the head and neck.
Dog owners, however, automatically presume that these goals will be achieved by taking their dogs to training and puppy socializing and putting them on expensive dog food (which is usually full of steroids, making dogs very hyperactive and difficult to handle). But unfortunately, the dog system's goals are not their goals…
Because they both teach dog owners how to feed, train, socialize and rear their dogs – as well as profit from behaviour problems, the situation is not unlike taking driving lessons from a panel beater. “The brakes are in the middle, and the accelerator is on the right – and here's my card…” They want you in their workshop.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
Dog bite injuries in children are a preventable health problem.
The average age of the children was 6.2 +/- 4.2 years, with an average weight of 23.3 +/- 13.7 kg. The children under 5 years of age suffered the most devastating injuries. More than half of these attacks were not provoked. More than two-thirds of the injuries to these children involved the head and neck.
Dog owners, however, automatically presume that these goals will be achieved by taking their dogs to training and puppy socializing and putting them on expensive dog food (which is usually full of steroids, making dogs very hyperactive and difficult to handle). But unfortunately, the dog system's goals are not their goals…
Because they both teach dog owners how to feed, train, socialize and rear their dogs – AND profit from behaviour problems, the situation is not unlike taking driving lessons from a panel beater. “The brakes are in the middle, and the accelerator is on the right – and here's my card…” They want you in their workshop.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
Dog bite injuries in children are a preventable health problem.
The average age of the children was 6.2 +/- 4.2 years, with an average weight of 23.3 +/- 13.7 kg. The children under 5 years of age suffered the most devastating injuries. More than half of these attacks were not provoked. More than two-thirds of the injuries to these children involved the head and neck.
2008 The University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine
“NEVER trust your young child alone with your dog or puppy, EVER. I don't care how good or well-trained you think your child is, when you're not looking…
They would be biased (and even in denial), wouldn't they? However, in the real world…
The victim in this mauling was an 8 month old infant who was attacked by a family pet: a neutered, male seven-year-old Doberman pinscher, which the owners had since the dog was a puppy.
The story as reported in the January 4, 2008 edition of the New York Times, indicates that the dog had been with the family since it was a puppy, and had shown no previous aggressive tendencies towards people.
At the time of the incident, the toddler was on the floor in the living room of the apartment, being cared for and watched by the grandmother
And also in the real world, this is what actually happens…
18 fatalities from dog bite have occurred
thus far in the United States in 2008
Lexington Kentucky, January 2008
The victim in this case was a six-week-old infant sleeping on the bed in his mother's room. The child was alone in the bedroom, and his mother was in an adjacent room when for reasons that are unclear*, the family dog, a Jack Russell terrier, attacked the child. Those who knew this particular Jack Russell terrier, said it was a kind of dog who would never harm anyone at all.
And it can also be seen on the Home Movie, Before and After Learning Dog Language, that the dogs attacked Monica right under the watchful gaze of three adults.
Now we have Plan B – keep the children away from the dog. (Does that mean lock the children outside while the dogs are inside… … huh? Don't they mean the other way around? (But that is “dog people” for you. Children don't feature.)
If dogs are so dangerous that children must feel anxious about them, the dog is being placed in the same category as a dangerous wild animal. If they are not complacent (which means confident) they are fearful. And an aggressive dog will soon pick this up and target them.
Dog bites of the scalp, face, and neck in children.
Mitchell RB, Nanez G, Wagner JD, Kelly J.
Department of Surgery, University of New Mexico, Children's Hospital of New Mexico, 915 Camino de Salud, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
CONCLUSIONS: The injured child is typically a 5-year-old boy attacked by a familiar dog at home or in the local neighborhood.
The incidence of facial injuries from dog bites.
Karlson TA.
Most of the published advice for preventing dog bite injuries to the face suggests parental diligence in keeping children away from dogs.
Epidemic Intelligence Service, CDC, 1600 Clifton Rd SE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
Parents and physicians should be aware that infants left alone with a dog may be at risk of death. TAKEN FROM jama WEBSITE
** Now their backs are covered. Anyone can say this. (In fact a 10 year old child without a PhD also can. Parents are not looking for mindless comments – they are seeking advice that is practical and proven which they can trust and act on with confidence, without putting their child’s lives at risk.)
DON'T LEAVE CHILDREN ALONE WITH DOGS, WARNS EXPERT
(Who was wise enough not to give his/her name, commenting on the dog that killed the baby girl in the bar and carried her body to their bed.)
Rottweiler attacks like that which has left a one-year-old dead are rare but when they do happen the injuries are significant, an expert said today. (That's profound!)
Young children should never be left alone with large breeds of dog, he added. (Oh, seems they don't' have children, visiting children, visitors, dinner to make, phones that ring, front doors to answer, computers to work on… or do they just not have dogs? That covered their backs, didn't it?)
Because most dog professionals don't know what causes aggression, or how to cure it.. But when the dog sees a child for the first time (after, say 17 years - like the dog who killed the neighbour's child….. what then, Doctor?
Who would take a traffic policeman who gives talks on road safety seriously if he said: “rather just stay at home.” This is how radically the mainstream dog system is pulling the wool over the eyes of families who own dogs.
Plan C Let's rather put the onus on the children to keep themselves safe. So make them terrified of the dog. Now the child will stay out of the dog's way - and then we won't have a problem!
Beck AM, Jones BA. Unreported dog bites in children: In Pennsylvania children, ages 4 to 18 years, were surveyed about their dog bite histories and attitudes toward animals. Dog bites were much more common than previously reported: 45 percent of children had been bitten during their lifetimes, more than 36 times the rate reported to health authorities. Children were bitten more frequently by the dogs owned by their neighbors, followed by their own dogs, than by strays or by dogs whose owners were not known. Despite the high bite rates, being bitten was not significantly associated, in most groups of children studied, with a dislike of dogs. These positive attitudes toward dogs may lead to inadequate precautions against bites...
PMID: 3923540 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] PMCID: PMC1424765
IV
&&Neither the mainstream dog system, nor the medical field (who always have their tuppence worth to say) have a clue. And barely even pretend to have one.
Their advice is always absent of either logic or practicality. And of course, hasn't ever actually been proven to work.
Breeders' Club dog “expert” interviewed by the media after 2 dogs killed a baby (verbatim quote): “Aggression could be a behavioural response, it could be as a result of a lack of training or whatever.”
Severe dog bites in children.
Brogan TV, Bratton SL, Dowd MD, Hegenbarth MA.
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA.
RESULTS. Forty cases were reviewed. Most children were boys (60%) and were white (87%). The median age was 50 months. There were three deaths. Most dogs were medium-sized or large breeds and were familiar to the victim. CONCLUSIONS. Severe dog bites in children occur most frequently in those younger than 5 years old and involve the head and neck. Large dogs that are familiar to the child are usually involved. Young children should be closely supervised when around any dog.
Parents and physicians should be aware that infants left alone with a dog may be at risk of death. TAKEN FROM jama WEBSITE
"It doesn't matter whether it's a rottweiler or any other dog, you have got to be really careful about leaving young kids and dogs together. (“Careful” meaning? Hamstring them? Drug them? Keep them on a lead and hope it doesn't break** or that the dog is too strong for you? Point water pistols at them? Karate chop them? Sit and stare at them all day long? Pin them down for the duration of the birthday party?)
"All breeds of dogs are animals. (We are learning so much from these experts!) They do revert to animal instincts.*(What makes them do this? You, after all are the expert.) If a dog is confronted with a situation they are not used to, they can react unexpectedly."* (Oh, so we must run our lives in such a way that our dog will never, ever be surprised. No more guests, new ring on the cell phone, new furniture or new car….)
He added: "If a dog is brought up in a household where there are no children you have got to be extra careful where children are present." (“Extra careful” – would that have helped Sophia's mother? An aggressive dog is very strong and very quick.)
2008 The University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine
“NEVER trust your young child alone with your dog or puppy, EVER. I don't care how good or well-trained you think your child is, when you're not looking…
They would be biased (and even in denial), wouldn’t they? However, in the real world…
The victim in this mauling was an 8 month old infant who was attacked by a family pet: a neutered, male seven-year-old Doberman pinscher, which the owners had since the dog was a puppy.
The story as reported in the January 4, 2008 edition of the New York Times, indicates that the dog had been with the family since it was a puppy, and had shown no previous aggressive tendencies towards people.
At the time of the incident, the toddler was on the floor in the living room of the apartment, being cared for and watched by the grandmother
And also in the real world, this is what actually happens…
18 fatalities from dog bite have occurred
thus far in the United States in 2008
Lexington Kentucky, January 2008
The victim in this case was a six-week-old infant sleeping on the bed in his mother's room. The child was alone in the bedroom, and his mother was in an adjacent room when for reasons that are unclear*, the family dog, a Jack Russell terrier, attacked the child. Those who knew this particular Jack Russell terrier, said it was a kind of dog who would never harm anyone at all.
And it can also be seen on the Home Movie, Before and After Learning Dog Language, that the dogs attacked Monica right under the watchful gaze of three adults.
Now we have Plan B – keep the children away from the dog. (Does that mean lock the children outside while the dogs are inside… … huh? Don’t they mean the other way around? (But that is “dog people” for you. Children don’t feature.)
Dog bites of the scalp, face, and neck in children.
Mitchell RB, Nanez G, Wagner JD, Kelly J.
Department of Surgery, University of New Mexico, Children's Hospital of New Mexico, 915 Camino de Salud, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
CONCLUSIONS: The injured child is typically a 5-year-old boy attacked by a familiar dog at home or in the local neighborhood.
The incidence of facial injuries from dog bites.
Karlson TA.
Most of the published advice for preventing dog bite injuries to the face suggests parental diligence in keeping children away from dogs.
Epidemic Intelligence Service, CDC, 1600 Clifton Rd SE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
Because most dog professionals don’t know what causes aggression, or how to cure it.. But when the dog sees a child for the first time (after, say 17 years - like the dog who killed the neighbour’s child….. what then, Doctor?
Who would take a traffic policeman who gives talks on road safety seriously if he said: “rather just stay at home.” This is how radically the mainstream dog system is pulling the wool over the eyes of families who own dogs.
Plan C Let’s rather put the onus on the children to keep themselves safe. So make them terrified of the dog. Now the child will stay out of the dog’s way - and then we won’t have a problem!
Beck AM, Jones BA. Unreported dog bites in children: In Pennsylvania children, ages 4 to 18 years, were surveyed about their dog bite histories and attitudes toward animals. Dog bites were much more common than previously reported: 45 percent of children had been bitten during their lifetimes, more than 36 times the rate reported to health authorities. Children were bitten more frequently by the dogs owned by their neighbors, followed by their own dogs, than by strays or by dogs whose owners were not known. Despite the high bite rates, being bitten was not significantly associated, in most groups of children studied, with a dislike of dogs. These positive attitudes toward dogs may lead to inadequate precautions against bites...
PMID: 3923540 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] PMCID: PMC1424765
Rather muddled thinking here, but they suggest that children who have been bitten should actually dislike dogs. It would be far wiser and more professional to be sensitive to the child’s predicament than to suggest they become neurotic.
Gandhi RR, Liebman MA, Stafford BL, Stafford PW.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
We conclude that effective prevention strategies must stress careful supervision of young children and the family or neighbor's dog, a scenario that may easily lead to complacency and set the stage for a severe injury.
If dogs are so dangerous that children must feel anxious about them, the dog is being placed on a level with a dangerous animal. If they are not complacent (which means confident) they are fearful.
But if being nervous excites the dog, then let’s go onto Plan D - and tell the children to stand dead still!! Be scared, but don’t move… and in their alternative reality (laboratories) the dog will just “lose interest”. In real life dogs kill babies that are sleeping…
Here is really dangerous advice that is given to parents by a trusted dog behaviour “expert” (whose priorities are with dogs – not with children):
“What should my children do if a strange dog approaches them while they are playing outside”
2008 The University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine
There are two safety postures that your children should know about to protect themselves against a possible bite from a strange dog.
If the children are standing, they should
STAND STILL LIKE A TREE.
- Stand straight with their feet together.
- Make fists with their hands and place them under their chin.
- They should not stare at the dog but look down at the ground.
The dog will soon loose interest and wander off. When the dog is gone, the children should tell a familiar adult about the dog.
And if they have get knocked over, they should:
ACT LIKE A LOG.
- Lie face down with their feet together.
- Make fists with their hands and place them behind their head.
- Cover their ears with their forearms.
The dog will soon loose interest and wander off. When the dog is gone, the children should tell a familiar adult about the dog.”
Oh, will he? The Staffie didn’t lose interest in Jaden who was sleeping like a log did he? They have of course, tested their theories themselves, haven’t they? Or haven’t they? Are they not rather disconnected from reality through working with laboratory dogs whose behaviour in no way resembles the dogs in the homes and suburbs where they actually interact with children. And would standing like a tree and acting like a log have helped Sophia:
Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 18:07 GMT 19:07 UK
Sophia Kimpton suffered 17 injuries to her head, arms and back during the incident at Conagher self-catering chalets, on a working farm in Dervock.
Her mother, Natasha Beckett, said she thought her daughter was going to die during Tuesday's attack.
"They were attacking her like a bit of meat…" she said.
"We were yelling to get them off and they were not budging. My husband was kicking one of them, I was kicking the other one off. They were just attached to her head.
"They were attacking her like a bit of meat, eating her and biting her," she said
"They were like dogs possessed, they were like wolves….
Have they ever actually been in Sophia’s position – and faced killer dogs head on while standing still? Or do they only see aggressive dogs that are muzzled, or doped? Are they not putting children’s lives at risk with their guesswork. Or worse, do they actually profit from aggressive dogs?
Plan E: After seeing a few children getting literally eaten alive with this advice, let’s rather just go slap into denial. After a pet dog had killed two babies, the “expert” stated: “it wasn’t aggressive”. So we don’t have a problem then - do we:
Hungarian twins killed by pet dog
BUDAPEST, Hungary (Reuters) -- An Alaskan Malamute dog mauled to death month-old twins, a boy and a girl.
“The malamute is not an aggressive dog but is a hunter by nature and might see a small child as prey, malamute breeder Kristina Illes, told Hungarian news agency MTI. Illes said it was possible that the infants' crying had upset the dog, though she did not rule out that the animal may only have been attempting to play with the babies.*
Is it wise to live with someone who kills babies every time they get upset?? We wouldn’t have a lot of children left then, would we? Here we see a dog expert in denial (what is hunting if it is not aggression, and is killing a baby not an act of aggression?) and guessing: “possible”, “may have”. A 5 year old could have come to those conclusions. And probably done better.
Plan F: Just don’t have a dog at all. They will all, of course, go of business. But that is what happens when, as a result of too much arrogance and greed, the tails starts wagging the dog. David Grant, director of the RSPCA's Harmsworth Memorial Animal Hospital in north London, was asked:
The Veterinary University academics are blocking the results of all research that has being done into the causes and cure of dog aggression, firstly because if this information is made availbale to the public it will seriously interfere with their profits and secondly, simply because it does not come from their laboratories, but from real life. They therefore call it “unscientific”. (Their definition of scientific not being that it is tried, tested, proven and empirical – but that they said it.)
Just because one has not personally experienced something it does not mean that it does not exist. We are talking here about far more than someone who does not have qualifications in dog behaviour. We are talking about giving the dog owners the knowldege they need and are turning to our head ethologist, Pam Whyte in order to understand their dogs and enjoy them, as well as keep their children safe from dog attack. The issue of understanding dogs and learning how to co-exist peacefully with them is not about “where the knowledge was gained” – but whether their kids are safe and their dog is a pleasure to them. (And vice versa.)
It takes more than an “interest” in dog behaviour to reduce the shocking euthanasia rate in domestic pets (euthanasia as a result of behaviour problems is the biggest killer of the domestic dog), and to reverse the spiralling incidence of dog attacks on innocent people (2,000 people a day are attacked by dogs in South Africa alone.) It takes an intimate knowledge on how the domestic dog carries out his hunting functions in our society – which behaviour therapists openly admit to not having.
When Ondersteport University Library received Pam Whyte’s first book ‘n Hond vir die Huis and a copy of my video that was shown at the 6th International Conference on Human-Animal Interactions in Monacco, they made her an honarary member. This has enabled Pam Whyte to study this subject in depth. Professor Haupt says in Domestic Animal Behavior for Veterinarians and Animal Scientists , Dr. Marder, Seminars in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (Small Animal), and Dr. Beck: the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association all admit to not being able to cure dog aggression. Dr. O’Farrel from the U.K. also says: “Aggression is like Diabetes, incurable.”
Just because they cannot find the solution to the dog aggression problem by studying rats in laboratories, it does not mean the solution cannot be found by studying wild dogs in East Africa and domestic dogs within their own home. Which is what Pam Whyte has been doing over the past 40 years.
In 1967 she opened her consultancy in Johannesburg. She published her first book on dog behaviour in 1975. In 1978 it was published in London and the London Times stated: “This book makes a much needed new approach to dog owning. The book is now in Japanese and in Braille. She has also been invited to write papers on dog psychology by universities in France, the Guide Dogs in France use the video that Pam Whyte made, Understand and Correct Your Dog’s Behaviour. Finding that the positive and negative reinforment techniques that the university teaches on dog behaviour was not giving them a high enough success rate in their sniffer dogs, Denel asked her to teach their dog unit her natural techniques.This is what you do when your dog bites and shows aggression toward other dogs.
Meanwhile, she studied the hunting behaviour of the wild dog with the assistance of Anglia Survival from BBC TV and discovered how to reverse predation. With this knowledge she has cured many vicious dogs of aggression, including 4 killer Pitt Bulls in Namibia.
In 1985 she noticed that dog aggression started increasing, and approached the SABC to assist her to identify this problem and offer a solution. A.D. Viljoen (who ran Network at the time) told her: “Let’s wait until it happens.”
It happened. So in the mid 1990’s, she approached Freek Robinson to ask him please to let her reach parents and dog owners through his programme in order to teach them how to keep their children safe from dog attack. He said: “Let’s wait for another child to be killed, then we can do the programme.” He didn’t. The mainstream academic dog system continue to pretend they did not know what was causing the dog attacks.
Whyte then approached Professor Odendaal who was head of the newly opened department of behaviour therapy to ask him to assist her with reaching families with this proven, scientific knowledge on how the domestic dog is carrying out his hunting strategies in our homes and in society, and how to both prevent and reverse it. He told her: “I do not see it as my job to save children from dog attack.” (Verbatim quote. This was while he was planning to run his seminars on “how to prevent dog attacks”.)
She then approached the head of the Onderstepoort University’s public relations department with statistics from Medical Journals which proved that the new feeding programmes were activating the domestic dog’s predatory instincts and he told her that “The Medical Journals are talking hogwash”. (Again, verbatim.)
Meanwhile, she gave talks at hospitals, schools and libraries, SPCA’S, dog training schools and has written articles widely in magazines on this subject. Only to be met with threats from the Veterinary profession in South Africa who openly claim that they cannot cure dog aggression. Where a woman in Durban was eaten alive by family pets, she was interviewed by the newspaper and when they printed the real reason for the attack (predation), their was a huge outcry by the conventional dog system demanding that the article be retracted and that in future, she be gagged by the press.
Meanwhile, overseas, Pam Whyte’s essential, life-saving work is being recognised. The Child Accident Prevention Trust in the U.K. approached her to write an article in their magazine on how to own a child/friendly dog, Animal Protection Institute in America asked her to write an article for the holistic vets in America on providing a non-surgical, nonpharmaceutical alternative to preventing excessive barking in the domestic dog. (Excessive barking is frequently a sign that a dog’s hunting instincts have been roused.) They published my paper on how to shut down the hunt and therefore remove the dog’s urge to call other dogs in the neighbourhood to his “hunt”.
Pam Whyte’s latest book Living with an Alien (which although it received rave reviews both in South Africa and Australia, was called “despicable” by local behaviour therapists. It has saved many dogs from being euthenased and many children from dog attacks and is now being published in both America and the UK. Pam Whyte continually receive letters from grateful parents and dog owners telling her what a change this insight into how the dog’s mind and instincts function has brought into their lives.
After the book came out, (Melvyn who was then the PRO for the South African Veterinary Association) then asked her to hold a clinic at a dog school in Johannesburg where they could not cure dogs of aggression with their conventional dog training methods. On arrival, there were dozens of video cameras, and she was handed a Pitt Bull that wanted to kill every dog in sight. In less than an hour, the dog was friendly with all dogs. Pam Whyte was not paid. Melvyn went on air two days later and told listeners that “if anyone tells you they can cure a Pitt Bull of aggression toward other dogs they are lying.” (He had obviously not caught her drift, so to speak – Pam is not there to boast – she is here to keep children safe, improve the quality of the dog’s and the owners’ lives and reduce the euthanasia rate.”)
Sometime later she was the object of a smear campaign that was instigated by her jealous “opposition”. On air she was “radio ambushed” and Melvyn tried to catch her out once again. Which he cannot do because her work stands up to all tests, and therefore is empirical and proven. On this programme, he stated that she “did not approve of dog training”. She pointed out that he could see for himself how dog training did not work on the video’s he took at the clinic where she cured the aggressive Pitt Bull.
He then said: “We do not have a video of you curing a Pitt Bull of aggression. We have a video of you confusing a Pitt Bull.” Pam Whyte challenged him to a public viewing of this video, but he said it is “lodged with his lawyers”. If this video did prove Pam to be a fake, why lock it away? Her own demo video’s where you see two dogs trying to kill a child, then totally trustworthy with her two weeks later can also be shown because the time has now come for the other side (her’s) to be heard. No commands or discipline were used to cure these killer dogs - only scientific Wolfpack Blueprint – Dog Language - for hunting and communicating. And on this same video is a wolf trying to hunt a child, then choosing not to, as Pam Whyte “told” the wolf (the same way as she “told the Pitt Bull” at the clinic) that the child was not prey. This was done by using pack signals to cancel the hunt through applying the Wolfpack Blueprint for hunting and communicating. It caused the wolf’s perception of the child to alter from that of a prey to that of a puppy – making him permanently trustworthy with children. (Provided his fight or flee nervous system was not activated again.)
The Wolfpack Blueprint is very user/friendly, requires the use of no force or gimmicks and the dog understands it instantly. As can be seen on my videos or at my clinics and workshops. The dog does not have to learn anything - he is not taught not to kill or bite children. His desire to harm them is removed.
This knowledge can never be acquired in a laboratory and that is what Dr. Luus, Dr. Greenburg and the conventional dog system in South Africa who study rats in order to understand dogs have against Pam. She did not learn how to cure aggression and keep children safe by conducting her research in man’s laboratory – she learnt it in Nature’s laboratory. Rats don’t chase squirrels up trees.
Pam Whyte now publicly ask the veterinary profession to support her in this vital work of reducing the incidence of dog attacks on children by allowing her to reach parents and dog owners with this essential, proven and scientific information and to cease resisting and threatening her in her efforts to keep children safe. In spite of their smear and blocking campaigns, Pam is still willing to share the results of her independent research with all vets and behaviour therapists in South Africa on how not to arouse the predatory instincts of the domestic dog, and how to diffuse them once they have been unwittingly roused by families who do not have access to information on how their dog’s hunting instincts work.
Because the subject Pam is discussing is so controversial, and contains life-saving information, she supports all of the above with verifiable documentation. This is what you do when your dog bites and shows aggression toward other dogs.
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Dog bites of the scalp, face, and neck in children.
Mitchell RB, Nanez G, Wagner JD, Kelly J.
Department of Surgery, University of New Mexico, Children's Hospital of New Mexico, 915 Camino de Salud, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
CONCLUSIONS: The injured child is typically a 5-year-old boy attacked by a familiar dog at home or in the local neighborhood.
The incidence of facial injuries from dog bites.
Karlson TA.
Most of the published advice for preventing dog bite injuries to the face suggests parental diligence in keeping children away from dogs.
Epidemic Intelligence Service, CDC, 1600 Clifton Rd SE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
Because most dog professionals don't know what causes aggression, or how to cure it.. But when the dog sees a child for the first time (after, say 17 years - like the dog who killed the neighbour's child….. what then, Doctor?
Who would take a traffic policeman who gives talks on road safety seriously if he said: “rather just stay at home.” This is how radically the mainstream dog system is pulling the wool over the eyes of families who own dogs.
Plan C Let's rather put the onus on the children to keep themselves safe. So make them terrified of the dog. Now the child will stay out of the dog's way - and then we won't have a problem!
Beck AM, Jones BA. Unreported dog bites in children: In Pennsylvania children, ages 4 to 18 years, were surveyed about their dog bite histories and attitudes toward animals. Dog bites were much more common than previously reported: 45 percent of children had been bitten during their lifetimes, more than 36 times the rate reported to health authorities. Children were bitten more frequently by the dogs owned by their neighbors, followed by their own dogs, than by strays or by dogs whose owners were not known. Despite the high bite rates, being bitten was not significantly associated, in most groups of children studied, with a dislike of dogs. These positive attitudes toward dogs may lead to inadequate precautions against bites...
PMID: 3923540 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] PMCID: PMC1424765
Rather muddled thinking here, but they suggest that children who have been bitten should actually dislike dogs. It would be far wiser and more professional to be sensitive to the child's predicament than to merely suggest that they now become neurotic.
Gandhi RR, Liebman MA, Stafford BL, Stafford PW.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
We conclude that effective prevention strategies must stress careful supervision of young children and the family or neighbor's dog, a scenario that may easily lead to complacency and set the stage for a severe injury.
If dogs are so dangerous that children must feel anxious about them, the dog is being placed in the same category as a dangerous wild animal. If they are “not complacent” (which means confident) - they are fearful. And an aggressive dog will soon pick this up and make them a target.
But if being nervous excites the dog, then let's go onto Plan D - and tell the children to stand dead still!! Be scared, but don't move… and in their alternative reality (laboratories) the dog will just “lose interest”. In real life dogs kill babies that are sleeping…
Here is really dangerous advice that is given to parents by a trusted dog behaviour “expert” (whose priorities are with dogs – not with children):
“What should my childre8 The University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine
There are two safety postures that your children should know about to protect themselves against a possible bite from a strange dog.
IIf the children are standing, they should
If dogs are so dangerous that children must feel anxious about them, the dog is being placed in the same category as a dangerous wild animal. If they are “not complacent” (which means confident) - they are fearful. And an aggressive dog will soon pick this up and make them a target.
But if being nervous excites the dog, then let's go onto Plan D - and tell the children to stand dead still!! Be scared, but don't move… and in their alternative reality (laboratories) the dog will just “lose interest”. In real life dogs kill babies that are sleeping…
Here is really dangerous advice that is given to parents by a trusted dog behaviour “expert” (whose priorities are with dogs – not with children):
“What should my children do if a strange dog approaches them while they are playing outside”
2008 The University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine
There are two safety postures that your children should know about to protect themselves against a possible bite from a strange dog.
If the children are standing, they should
IV
&&Neither the mainstream dog system, nor the medical field (who always have their tuppence worth to say) have a clue. And barely even pretend to have one.
Their advice is always absent of either logic or practicality. And of course, hasn't ever actually been proven to work.
Breeders' Club dog “expert” interviewed by the media after 2 dogs killed a baby (verbatim quote): “Aggression could be a behavioural response, it could be as a result of a lack of training or whatever.”
**And “or whatever” means precisely? The lives of our children are depending on this vague, indifferent advice.
Severe dog bites in children.
Brogan TV, Bratton SL, Dowd MD, Hegenbarth MA.
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA.
RESULTS. Forty cases were reviewed. Most children were boys (60%) and were white (87%). The median age was 50 months. There were three deaths. Most dogs were medium-sized or large breeds and were familiar to the victim. CONCLUSIONS. Severe dog bites in children occur most frequently in those younger than 5 years old and involve the head and neck. Large dogs that are familiar to the child are usually involved. Young children should be closely supervised when around any dog.
Parents and physicians should be aware that infants left alone with a dog may be at risk of death. TAKEN FROM jama WEBSITE
DON'T LEAVE CHILDREN ALONE WITH DOGS, WARNS EXPERT
(Who was wise enough not to give his/her name, commenting on the dog that killed the baby girl in the bar and carried her body to their bed.)
Rottweiler attacks like that which has left a one-year-old dead are rare but when they do happen the injuries are significant, an expert said today. (That’s profound!)
Young children should never be left alone with large breeds of dog, he added. (Oh, seems they don’t’ have children, visiting children, visitors, dinner to make, phones that ring, front doors to answer, computers to work on… or do they just not have dogs? That covered their backs, didn’t it?)
"It doesn't matter whether it's a rottweiler or any other dog, you have got to be really careful about leaving young kids and dogs together. (“Careful” meaning? Hamstring them? Drug them? Keep them on a lead and hope it doesn’t break? Point water pistols at them? Karate chop them? Sit and stare at them all day long? Pin them down for the duration of the birthday party?)
"All breeds of dogs are animals. (We are learning so much from these experts!) They do revert to animal instincts.*(What makes them do this? You, after all are the expert.) If a dog is confronted with a situation they are not used to, they can react unexpectedly."* (Oh, so we must run our lives in such a way that our dog will never, ever be surprised. No more guests, new ring on the cell phone, new furniture or new car….)
He added: "If a dog is brought up in a household where there are no children you have got to be extra careful where children are present." (“Extra careful” – would that have helped Sophia’s mother? An aggressive is very strong and very quick.)
2008 The University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine
“NEVER trust your young child alone with your dog or puppy, EVER. I don't care how good or well-trained you think your child is, when you're not looking…
They would be biased (and even in denial), wouldn’t they? However, in the real world…
The victim in this mauling was an 8 month old infant who was attacked by a family pet: a neutered, male seven-year-old Doberman pinscher, which the owners had since the dog was a puppy.
The story as reported in the January 4, 2008 edition of the New York Times, indicates that the dog had been with the family since it was a puppy, and had shown no previous aggressive tendencies towards people.
At the time of the incident, the toddler was on the floor in the living room of the apartment, being cared for and watched by the grandmother
And also in the real world, this is what actually happens…
18 fatalities from dog bite have occurred
thus far in the United States in 2008
Lexington Kentucky, January 2008
The victim in this case was a six-week-old infant sleeping on the bed in his mother's room. The child was alone in the bedroom, and his mother was in an adjacent room when for reasons that are unclear*, the family dog, a Jack Russell terrier, attacked the child. Those who knew this particular Jack Russell terrier, said it was a kind of dog who would never harm anyone at all.
It can also be seen on the Home Movie, Before and After Learning Dog Language, that the dogs attacked Monica right under the watchful gaze of three adults.
And how many millions of dogs and puppies never ever harm children when they are alone with them? Obviously attacking is abherent, and not normal behaviour and needs to be understood, not evaded.
Now we have Plan B – keep the children away from the dog. (Does that mean lock the children outside while the dogs are inside… … huh? Don’t they mean the other way around? (But that is “dog people” for you. Children don’t feature.)
Dog bites of the scalp, face, and neck in children.
Mitchell RB, Nanez G, Wagner JD, Kelly J.
Department of Surgery, University of New Mexico, Children's Hospital of New Mexico, 915 Camino de Salud, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
CONCLUSIONS: The injured child is typically a 5-year-old boy attacked by a familiar dog at home or in the local neighborhood.
The incidence of facial injuries from dog bites.
Karlson TA.
Most of the published advice for preventing dog bite injuries to the face suggests parental diligence in keeping children away from dogs.
Epidemic Intelligence Service, CDC, 1600 Clifton Rd SE, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.
Because most dog professionals don’t know what causes aggression, or how to cure it.. But when the dog sees a child for the first time (after, say 17 years - like the dog who killed the neighbour’s child….. what then, Doctor?
Who would take a traffic policeman who gives talks on road safety seriously if he said: “rather just stay at home.” This is how radically the mainstream dog system is pulling the wool over the eyes of families who own dogs.
Plan C Let’s rather put the onus on the children to keep themselves safe. So make them terrified of the dog. Now the Now the child will be too scared to go near the dog, and then bingo, we won’t have a problem, will we!
Beck AM, Jones BA. Unreported dog bites in children: In Pennsylvania children, ages 4 to 18 years, were surveyed about their dog bite histories and attitudes toward animals. Dog bites were much more common than previously reported: 45 percent of children had been bitten during their lifetimes, more than 36 times the rate reported to health authorities. Children were bitten more frequently by the dogs owned by their neighbors, followed by their own dogs, than by strays or by dogs whose owners were not known. Despite the high bite rates, being bitten was not significantly associated, in most groups of children studied, with a dislike of dogs. These positive attitudes toward dogs may lead to inadequate precautions against bites...
PMID: 3923540 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] PMCID: PMC1424765
Rather muddled thinking here, but they suggest that children who have been bitten should actually dislike dogs. It would be far wiser and more professional to be sensitive to the child’s predicament than to suggest they become neurotic.
Gandhi RR, Liebman MA, Stafford BL, Stafford PW.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
We conclude that effective prevention strategies must stress careful supervision of young children and the family or neighbor's dog, a scenario that may easily lead to complacency and set the stage for a severe injury.
If dogs are so dangerous that children must feel anxious about them, the dog is being placed on a level with a dangerous animal. If they are not complacent (which means confident) they are fearful.
But if being nervous excites the dog, then let’s go onto Plan D - and tell the children to stand dead still!! Be scared, but don’t move… and in their alternative reality (laboratories) the dog will just “lose interest”. In real life dogs kill babies that are sleeping…
Here is really dangerous advice that is given to parents by a trusted dog behaviour “expert” (whose priorities are with dogs – not with children):
“What should my children do if a strange dog approaches them while they are playing outside”
2008 The University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine
There are two safety postures that your children should know about to protect themselves against a possible bite from a strange dog.
If the children are standing, they should
STAND STILL LIKE A TREE.
- Stand straight with their feet together.
- Make fists with their hands and place them under their chin.
- They should not stare at the dog but look down at the ground.
The dog will soon loose interest and wander off. When the dog is gone, the children should tell a familiar adult about the dog.
And if they have get knocked over, they should:
ACT LIKE A LOG.
- Lie face down with their feet together.
- Make fists with their hands and place them behind their head.
- Cover their ears with their forearms.
The dog will soon loose interest and wander off. When the dog is gone, the children should tell a familiar adult about the dog.”
Oh, will he? The Staffie didn’t lose interest in Jaden who was sleeping like a log did he? They have of course, tested their theories themselves, haven’t they? Or haven’t they? Are they not rather disconnected from reality through working with laboratory dogs whose behaviour in no way resembles the dogs in the homes and suburbs where they actually interact with children. And would standing like a tree and acting like a log have helped Sophia:
Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 18:07 GMT 19:07 UK
Sophia Kimpton suffered 17 injuries to her head, arms and back during the incident at Conagher self-catering chalets, on a working farm in Dervock.
Her mother, Natasha Beckett, said she thought her daughter was going to die during Tuesday's attack.
"They were attacking her like a bit of meat…" she said.
"We were yelling to get them off and they were not budging. My husband was kicking one of them, I was kicking the other one off. They were just attached to her head.
"They were attacking her like a bit of meat, eating her and biting her," she said
"They were like dogs possessed, they were like wolves….
Have they ever actually been in Sophia’s position – and faced killer dogs head on while standing still? Or do they only see aggressive dogs that are muzzled, or doped? Are they not putting children’s lives at risk with their guesswork. Or worse, do they actually profit from aggressive dogs?
Plan E: After seeing a few children getting literally eaten alive with this advice, let’s rather just go slap into denial. After a pet dog had killed two babies, the “expert” stated: “it wasn’t aggressive”. So we don’t have a problem then - do we? So the dog aggression experts are therefore (rather conveniently) under no obligation to find a solution.
Hungarian twins killed by pet dog
BUDAPEST, Hungary (Reuters) -- An Alaskan Malamute dog mauled to death month-old twins, a boy and a girl.
“The malamute is not an aggressive dog but is a hunter by nature and might see a small child as prey, malamute breeder Kristina Illes, told Hungarian news agency MTI. Illes said it was possible that the infants' crying had upset the dog, though she did not rule out that the animal may only have been attempting to play with the babies.*
Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 18:07 GMT 19:07 UK
Sophia Kimpton suffered 17 injuries to her head, arms and back during the incident at Conagher self-catering chalets, on a working farm in Dervock.
Her mother, Natasha Beckett, said she thought her daughter was going to die during Tuesday's attack.
"They were attacking her like a bit of meat…" she said.
"We were yelling to get them off and they were not budging. My husband was kicking one of them, I was kicking the other one off. They were just attached to her head.
"They were attacking her like a bit of meat, eating her and biting her," she said
"They were like dogs possessed, they were like wolves….
Have they ever actually been in Sophia’s position – and faced killer dogs head on while standing still? Or do they only see aggressive dogs that are muzzled, or doped? Are they not putting children’s lives at risk with their guesswork. Or worse, do they actually profit from aggressive dogs?
Is it wise to live with someone who kills babies every time they get upset?? We wouldn’t have a lot of children left then, would we?
Here we see a dog expert in denial (what is hunting if it is not aggression, and is killing a baby not an act of aggression?) and guessing: “possible”, “may have”. A 5 year old could have come to those conclusions. And probably done better.
Plan F: Just don’t have a dog at all. They will all, of course, go of business. But that is what happens when, as a result of too much arrogance and greed, the tails starts wagging the dog. David Grant, director of the RSPCA's Harmsworth Memorial Animal Hospital in north London, was asked:
“Is keeping a dog simply too risky for families with young children?” His reply is:
Yes.”
People get dogs before their children are born, and if every parent routinely starts killing their dogs because a baby has arrived, this would not be a very good indicator of a healthy society! We hope that this current madness will not continue to escalate, so that dogs become banned as pets and put into the same category as tigers and Boa Constrictors. According to David Grant, we seem to be moving that way…
And if no children are likely to arrive (yay, now we can have a dog!) what about visiting children? So many attacks take place by dogs that escape from being confined, so locking the dog away before a child visits will not guarantee the child’s safety.
Is it actually possible for a family to keep a dog for 15 years and never let that dog ever come into contact with children?? It didn’t work with the 17 year old Rottweiller in Fort Worth.
However, if all parents and dog owners had access to scientific information on how to keep their dog’s safety catch on - the opposite will happen. The dog industry would actually have more business.
And small dogs? Well, we have seen how a Jack Russell and the Staffie killed Jaden. The Jack Russell did not need the Staffies help – Jack Russell’s and Daschunds have killed babies on their own without another dog packing with them. There was also a report of a Yorkshire Terrier killing a man while he slept (all dogs have the equipment and the genetically instinctual knowledge on where to put their teeth written into their DNA. But when you visit your Granny, she has knives in the kitchen. Does that mean that she is automatically going to use them to kill! (I can just hear the reply… “you never know…” but you catch my drift. (Hopefully) she doesn’t want to.) Dogs that are not aggressive are not aggressive because it just doesn’t cross their mind.
And what about the actual Behavior Therapy Profession? Here are some extracts from their academic text books which speak for themselves:
Proceedings of the 29th International Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology (study of behaviour) states …Modern training methods use positive and negative reinforcement.” … “These principles are based on work done in many laboratories on species such as pigeons and rats.” This extract is taken from a paper called: Effective Communication (come again?).
Even those who have PhD’s in animal behaviour admit this to one another in their journals and text books. Domestic Animal Behavior for Veterinarians and Animal Scientists says: “What are the causes of destructive behavior? (And dog aggression.) Unfortunately, the definitive answer to this question has not been found.” (By them, that is.) Then they go on to say: “Some intelligent guesses can be made.” (“Some intelligent guesses” in a serious academic text book that claims to be scientific?) Later, they go on to say that if they could only study the dogs in their own homes, they might be able to find a cure to destructive behaviour. The reason for the above guess work, hypotheses an ignorance surrounding dog behaviour is - pigeons don’t dig holes, bite children, chew toys and shoes.
Domestic Animal Behavior for Veterinarians and Animal Scientists says under the section: Surgical Treatment: “Attempts are sometimes made to treat behaviour problems by removing part of the body so that the dog is physically unable to engage in the behavior.’ And they are also frequently paying for it with their lives as well. In Journal of American Medical Veterinary Association Vol 210 says: “Sadly euthanasia is the number one cause of death in companion animals.” (Note – not stray dogs – pets.) They then go on to say: “We are the only ones uniquely trained (is that not rather an arrogant statement?) to provide specific recommendations.” What about “solutions to the problem”?
In discussing an incident where a Husky bit two veterinary students, Dr. Bernard E. Rollin says in Veterinary Medical Ethics: Volume 35. “Obedience training, increased exercise, and behavioral modification techniques recommended by a local animal behavior authority were ineffective in altering the dog’s behavior, so he was euthanased.”
And Domestic Animal Behavior for Veterinarians and Animal Scientists says: “The owner tried behavior modification for a few weeks, but there was no improvement, and the dog was euthanized.”
Which explains:
Proceedings of the 29th International Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology (study of behaviour) states …Modern training methods use positive and negative reinforcement.” … “These principles are based on work done in many laboratories on species such as pigeons and rats.” This extract is taken from a paper called: Effective Communication (come again?).
Even those who have PhD’s in animal behaviour admit this to one another in their journals and text books. Domestic Animal Behavior for Veterinarians and Animal Scientists says: “What are the causes of destructive behavior? (And dog aggression.) Unfortunately, the definitive answer to this question has not been found.” (By them, that is.) Then they go on to say: “Some intelligent guesses can be made.” (“Some intelligent guesses” in a serious academic text book that claims to be scientific?) Later, they go on to say that if they could only study the dogs in their own homes, they might be able to find a cure to destructive behaviour. The reason for the above guess work, hypotheses an ignorance surrounding dog behaviour is - pigeons don’t dig holes, bite children, chew toys and shoes.
Domestic Animal Behavior for Veterinarians and Animal Scientists says under the section: Surgical Treatment: “Attempts are sometimes made to treat behaviour problems by removing part of the body so that the dog is physically unable to engage in the behavior.’ And they are also frequently paying for it with their lives as well. In Journal of American Medical Veterinary Association Vol 210 says: “Sadly euthanasia is the number one cause of death in companion animals.” (Note – not stray dogs – pets.) They then go on to say: “We are the only ones uniquely trained (is that not rather an arrogant statement?) to provide specific recommendations.” What about “solutions to the problem”?
In discussing an incident where a Husky bit two veterinary students, Dr. Bernard E. Rollin says in Veterinary Medical Ethics: Volume 35. “Obedience training, increased exercise, and behavioral modification techniques recommended by a local animal behavior authority were ineffective in altering the dog’s behavior, so he was euthanased.”
And Domestic Animal Behavior for Veterinarians and Animal Scientists says: “The owner tried behavior modification for a few weeks, but there was no improvement, and the dog was euthanized.”
Which explains:
Copied and pasted from public dog forums quoting behaviorist discussing Princess Goodwin’s dog that bit her face off “out of the blue”:
1. "I will be appearing with the behaviorist from Dog Borstal and he'll be explaining what could have happened. "He thinks that it might have had some rage attack, something went wrong in his brain and he just did it."*
2. “A friend told me about a news item on T.V. Apparently a lady, who lives in the UK had two dogs who slept in her bedroom.
The lady woke up when the dog who slept on her bed actually bit her nose off. There were several dog behaviorist's on this T.V. programme and they concluded that any dog is capable of this. Did any of you see this programme??”
The expert “thinks” – he doesn’t “know”. He is therefore an expert on his own opinions. So is a teenager, for that matter. And a two year old. (We are talking life and death situations, here.)
There is just too much guess work, biased opinions and unproven theories abounding in such a vital area of life and death. If dogs are so unpredictable, and they cannot be left alone with a child, and have to be constantly supervised like a criminal on probation before they have even committed a crime and children have to be taught to fear them - we have no right owning them. And if the trend continues – dogs will be phased out of our society. Which is what David Grant is foreseeing.
Here is a brief outline of the vast and very misunderstood subject of helping dogs adjust to domestication and their lifestyle, and integrating them into their families.
A Natural Dog Training Home Kit has all the info a dog owner needs to be able to both prevent and cure behaviour problems through understanding their dog correctly - instead playing “armies” with them and their owners (dog training) by bliksemming them into submission, bribing them and therefore having very limited control and losing their respect, or by applying theories that have been developed through studying laboratory animals. None of these artificial situations reflect the real world where dogs live and interact with their families. Dogs are very much more complex and super-intelligent than either dog professionals or laymen give them credit for.
These highly superficial approaches all leads to treating only the symptoms, (making dogs scared of being punished, etc.) and never to actually removing the root cause of the problem. And because none of their theories have actually been subjected to any long term (or even short term) quality control tests within the dogs’ own homes – they lead to the appearance of one gimmick after another - all falling into the same trap - and all propped up - not by results – but by marketing myths and propaganda.
Natural Dog Training Home Kits, on the other hand empowers dog owners with empirical information which has been drawn from many, many years of on hands experience in curing behaviour problems in domestic dogs (and other pets) within many thousands of homes. Studying the spontaneous interaction between members of functional packs of wild dogs confirms and enhances this thoroughly proven information. It therefore only teaches techniques that have been subjected to stringent long term quality control tests.
With the Kit, Pam also gives vital one on one tailor made training to each dog owner, whether they live in New Zealand, USA, Canada, India, Denmark, UK...
The Natural Dog Training Home Kit gives dog owners a deep understanding of why their dogs do what they do, and therefore how to get so much more enjoyment out of them through connecting with them on a much deeper and more meaningful level, and how to remove their urge to be destructive, aggressive, disobedient, pull on the lead, mess indoors, chase the cat, bark for nothing, chew, dig, knock children over... which is always either a cry for help, or the direct result of confusion. Dogs are not human, and instead of trying to impose human reasoning on dogs, the Natural Dog Training Home Kit teaches dog owners DOG logic! (Which is actually extremely logical.)
Every range of behaviour problem can therefore be cured simply by learning what motivates our dogs to behave the way they do, and by understanding what they are communicating to us (trying to!) through understanding the subtle, exciting and powerful Laws of the Jungle which are built into every dogs’ genes - and therefore govern all dog behaviour. They are kind and easy to apply - and simply remove the dog’s urge to be “naughty, disobedient” etc. Nature is always simple. It is man who complicates things.
Once dog owners have achieved this vital mind shift (which won’t be found any where else) their dogs become an asset and an enhancement to their families (and vice versa). This is because they are able to live in harmony with their pets who automatically become well behaved, without having to be ordered around, commanded, subjected to raised voices and threats (and worse) - but to be fully under control through influence, trust and communication (sound civilized? it is!), so that their families can be proud of their dogs’ behaviour! Naturally! Because that is how a pack of dog lives – as the Alpha Training attachment shows.)
Very importantly, the Home Kit also brings out the dog’s natural urge to protect his territory, his pack and his leader. The technique is taught - not by academics who are limited by their “corridor vision”, or by dog trainers, who want to subjugate their four legged ‘enemy” or “opponent” – but by environmentalists and conservationists who observe dog behaviour objectively and scientifically (as in the real world) with no axe to grind, and no vested interests in problem behaviour.
Time to start barking up the RIGHT tree? Long overdue.
The Natural Dog Training Home Kit does just that. If you would like to help liberate more dogs and their owners from this “culture clash”, so that they can connect with and enjoy one another on a more positive and meaningful level – just let me know, and we can work out a plan. We actually work with many families in Kzn. Can you also tell me more about the feeds that you sell, so that we can refer our dog owners to you?
What our dogs are dying to tell us!
The detox and Rehab of a Family of [Much Loved and Much Misunderstood] Canine Delinquents.
These are progress reports of dogs which live in rural surroundings having their hunt shut down naturally.
They demonstrate how our Best Friends are in reality, “tame wild dogs”, and need to be KEPT tame as their killer instincts simmer below the surface, and when they do surface, they are not recognised for what they are. They demonstrate exactly what makes dogs aggressive, as well as demonstrate how easy it is to shut down a hunt through applying the Laws of the Jungle, and restoring the Natural Rhythm of the Wild, which is embedded in all our dogs' DNA.
These progress reports are entirely unedited, and show how misinformed dog owners are kept, as well as how the programme requires the cooperation of the dog - as well as the humans.
Please remain objective in the learning curve that this Group Support provides, and be careful not to allow your emotions to detract from the scientific lessons which it has to teach - any more than we allow our disapproval of Monica's parents for placing their child in such danger to detract from the valuable scientific lessons of the footage.
We are fortunate in having access to other peoples' mistakes, imperfections, and struggles in order to see the Big Picture - which the mainstream dog system will never allow us to see, making us feel helpless, thinking that we are the only ones with problem dogs.
None of us in this office likes the idea of canned hunting, but these totally honest progress reports give dog owners such unique and valuable insight into their dogs' instincts, and therefore, behaviour which has hitherto never been available to us - not even by David Attenborourgh.
Dr. Paul Anderson.
Hi Pam
I spoke to you today about my Jack Russel – Zack – who is showing increasing aggression by the day.
Please I will pay directly in to your bank account today for a starter kit for him. My email is too slow to do it via your on line shopping option.
I wanted to give you details of my other dogs – so you can recommend to me what else I will need:
· Cleo – an adopted cross breed, female, now about 5 years of age. Size of a fox terrier. Currently she never goes on walks with us as she was allowed by her previous owners to chase the game on the farm and we cannot allow that here – especially with hunting dogs. She is a sweet little home body.
· Molly – 2 year old long haired, short legged, spayed female jack russel. Spoilt and with a will of her own.
· Tosca – a beautiful bitch. German short haired pointer crossed with Weimeraner (?spelling). Also 2 years of age. Hyperactive with an obsession with gecko's and an avid liguaan killer – which makes me want to kill her. She will sneak off and chase game at any opportunity. I hate to admit it that we have used a shock collar on her – of course it corrects the behaviour – but when we go for walks her tail is tucked now and she is nervous. She is an exhausting dog.
· Tex – an 8 month old Blue Tick crossed with Greyhound. His ancestors are used for hunting and killing caracal and jackal in the Kalahari. We want to train him to take the blood spoor of wounded animals. So far he has a beautiful temperament and listens beautifully. I don't want to ruin him too.
Dear Pam
Attached please find information on my 5 dogs (and a pig!)
Mostly things with all the dogs are better however I still need your advice with Zack and his aggression – as soon as he gets sweet again we drop our guard and love him and step into his game plan again.
I need your advice too please on how to keep the two Jack Russels off the furniture without commanding them. They are so used to it that even if I leave the room they just make themselves comfortable and settle down.
I have packed thorn tree branches onto the settee outside to keep the big dogs off and they now have their own bed outside – elevated. But it looks like Tosca keeps Tex off by growling at him – which means he then sleeps on the lodge patio furniture which is a problem.
I have been very busy but now look forward to this journey with you. I have received a small and a large collar and lead too but have done no work with them yet.
Not sure what other info you need from me.
Thanks and regards
Pat
Hi Pat,
Thank you for these details – my replies are in red.
Regards,
Pam.
Zack – Male Jack Russel 3 years of age
Where do I start? Was our first dog and had a bit of time alone with us before the pack
arrived. We think he is pissed with us for taking all the attention off of him.
He has the sweetest nature and we have both over loved him. He is a brilliant hunter and gets
lots of attention in the hunting environment - not only because he is cute and gorgeous but
also because he is very good at his job and gets lots of praise from my husband and the
hunters. To see that instinct kick in is amazing.
From the dog's standpoint, his instincts inform him that he is Alpha of the pack. Dogs actually get huge thrills from killing (so that in itself is already a reward) And killing is killing - they do not differentiate between killing game during their work, or cats, pot bellied pigs and other “game” at home. Sometimes it is humans that are perceived as prey - usually babies and toddlers, but they also frequently direct their predation at adults. (Small dogs have even been known to attack adults while they are sleeping.)
At home he has been spoilt. Lots of attention, lots of being looked at, allowed on the couch
.Basically, confirmation that the whole establishment belongs to him.
inside when we watch TV (not any more) and he used to sneak on to the bed at night to
sleep with us too. When his aggression started getting so bad
.Now starting to perceive humans as “fair game” as his steroid levels get higher and higher...
we put him outside in a
safe area just off our bedroom to break the habit. Now he mostly stays off the bed during
the night. We often sleep with that door open if it is not too hot and we don't want the aircon
on - so he has access to us but stays off the bed now.
.As long as it is out of choice, and not through fear of punishment, that is good. Otherwise it a sign of lack of trust which can lead to retaliation at a later stage…
So the aggression build up came from a few quarters:
* From little if he was disturbed when he was asleep he snapped - so we avoided disturbing
him.
.Invasion of personal space can cause humans to “snap” as well. Appearing needy and allowing him to set you up like this also causes arrogance. As you say, he then trained you.
· As his confidence grew with hunting so did the aggression. .(Not only confidence, but also hunting steroids causing lack of inhibitions etc. .When the trackers come to
pick up the animal to load it on the vehicle - he growls at them.
.He has no way of knowing that it wasn't his kill… The trackers were actually breaking all pack protocol according to his jungle instincts - which are built into his DNA.
When they off load the
animal and the other dogs come to see - he growls at them. If he is still on the hunting
vehicle and people approcah - he will growl at them. My husband had leaned in to the vehicle
to pick up a rifle and he has gone mad with aggression at him.
.He is on a hunt high and is perceiving the situation according to his pack instincts. Having been given Alpha status through so much attention, sleeping on your bed etc., your husband was therefore perceived as challenging this authority. And then of course, there was the hunger.
He wont get out the vehicle.
If he does - he will go underneath the vehicle and growl at anyone walking past.
.Reverted to being a feral dog.
* And then this growling creeped into the home environemnt too.
.You now know why now.
I have gone to get in to my
own bed and he has been sleeping on Mollys bed (next to my side of the bed) and he
has been really aggressive to me.
.Whom he now starts perceiving as another bokkie through the “red mist” and tunnel vision caused by his hunting steroids.
If me and my husband give him too much attention at the
same time - he growls, hair and tail up and walks off.
.This is contempt that comes from arrogance through seeing you as so available and so needy. Being King Pin, he can afford to walk away because he knows he only has to “click his fingers” and you will come running. (Dogs are only human!)
Or the growl turns into a snarl.
.Being Alpha, he “has the right” according to his pack instincts. Your actions are destabalising the whole pack protocol system which confuses him completely.
* When he is a sweet mood and you call him and he sort of creeps up to you and gets
almost hick ups - short intakes of breath. Sometimes he also starts shivering madly when
we call him to us.
.Terribly confused through imposing human logic onto him and making demands on him that his instincts cannot relate to. (They are aliens!)
*Initail ignoring and proper feeding did wonders. Then he show his sweet side and we fell in to
the same trap of loving him again.
.You can't show affection until you have gone your “6 steps to love” without giving away your power.
Growling at everythig got worse. Back to ignoring, no
commands and no eye contact.
Almost every time he sees Tex he growls at him
This is to set you up to command him (take a cue of him) in order to confirm his Alpha status over you - and therefore the power that he has to make you react.
Cleo - Cross breed Female about 5 years now – real mix about the size of a foxy
.
Adopted at 2 years of age from an emigrating family. My husband is not fond of her.
She has a very sweet temperament although can demand attention - she was an
only dog in a family of four. She is quiet in nature and spend most of her time alone.
She will occasionally interact with the other dogs - one on one.
She is usually with me - in the office, in the kitchen - she will quietly be with me.
.When discipline and commands have been fully replaced by The Language of the Pack and with correct body language, parameters will be automatically put in place, which will make her both more confident, and less demanding.
Molly - Female Long Haired Jack Russel – nearly 2 years of age
My little sweet sweet. When Zack became a hunter I wanted a Jackie who would be with
me at the house and so I bought Molly. She is spoilt but has the sweetest little nature and
is like a little bear - she is long haired jack russel. She sleeps on the furniture, on her bed
at night in our bedroom but hops on the bed in the morning.
I have allowed the little dogs on the funiture - but it drives my husband dilly.
.No such thing as small dogs. Only big dogs with short legs. You are destablising the pack politics again.
Molly has a tendency to nip at my ankles when I walk. I have a huge office chair and she
mostly lies behind my bum on the chair during the mornings when I am in the office.
.Her hunting steroids are causing her to hunt you.
She is also usually with me - but more obviously, more closely than Cleo. In the office,
when I watch TV - at my feet, when I cook - at my feet.
She has a hard time with Tex and Tosca, Tex thinks she is a rag doll and I am afraid that
Tosca will kill her one day. She has shown warning signs.
.A dog living in terror of being killed cannot lead a normal life or have any quality of living. Which means the owners can't either.
Molly spends a lot of time running away and crawling under small spaces to get away from
Tosca and Tex. (Bad this morning)
She is also a brat actually.
Detoxing Tex according to your adrenalin ebook, and setting parameters according to Chapter 12 in Living with an 'Alien - when applied 100% - have the solutions to these problems. And will both save Molly's life and save you vet bills as well as give her a life that is worth living.
Tosca – Female German Short Haired Pointer crossed with Weimerana – also nearly 2 years of age
Tosca the Bitch. From when she arrived as a small puppy she growled. She is beautiful and
anorexic. I battle to keep weight on her as she is hyperactive almost not stopping to eat.
.Permanently smashed on hunting steroids.
I think my husband overstimulates her and Zack as they are constantly with him.
.To a dog, the human concept of “over stimulation” according to the Laws of the Jungle means the dogs are hunting. (I.e. working up to the thrill of the kill.) In the wild there is no noise, hype, recreation, fun, dancing, parties, world cup – only:
chill –
and kill.
Nothing else. Dogs are made for survival, so engery is conserved and used only to get food and to save their life. So if it is not chill, the dog's instincts can only interpret it as “kill”. Weimeraners and Pointers are consummate hunting dogs, and to many of these breeds, when they are in fight or flee and the “red mist' comes in - they cannot recognise us.
And
here 40 degree heat is common. She is exhausting to watch - and I think she is exhausted.
.She will burn out (drop dead – even a vet's dog did this while chasing sticks – and another vet's dogs killed his cats after chasing sticks) unless the Rhythm of the Wild is restored so that her emergency nervous system can be shut down. (See Adrenalin ebook.)
She does not stop. Either looking for and trying to catch lizards and gheckos. Or stalking
and killing liguaans. Or chasing squirrels or Molly. Or if she can - chasing game.
My husband has used a shock collar on her - when she shoots off after game in the bush.
.She is stuck half way through the Rhythm of the Wild… and therefore working up to the kill in a euphoric state, disconnected and without any inhibitions. If the horns and hooves of the prey don't deter a wild dog from hunting – there is nothing we can do to deter them.
It has not stopped the behaviour - she still does it when she gets a gap. Also when we walk
she is not carefree - she is on edge waiting for the next command, her tail is tucked. .(Totally confused.) It is
sad. We walked with them the other day and my husband and I walked away from each
other and then called the dogs to run from one of us to the other and then back. She would only come to me if a yelled at her - not if I called sweetly. .
.You can see in Living with an Alien how Spike in one of the case reports was played with in this way, then started attacking people he knew. As you can see in the adrenalin ebook, running is a survival activity and triggers the urge to kill.
It causes them to be high as kites on their steroids, and therefore, completely disconnected from reality, fixated only on the thrill of the kill. Soon the yelling won't penetrate the “red mist” either.
(Zack would not come to me at all and stayed staring at my husband Confused at these actions that are outside their frame of reference, and also anticipating a hunting signal (command) and follows him everywhere. .Seeing him as a hunting partner who supplies his steroid fixes. However we also have a student with us at the moment
and she loves being with her too. .Loves what she represents….
She also jumps up. .Now we know what she represents…
She is usually restless at night too. .Prowling… Last night I fed her meat before we went to bed -
she slept through. .Says it all… no need to hunt any more. But the urge to hunt will still be there until she has detoxed from her steroids. Her breed originates from all hunting dogs – and when they have “lost it” – any game will do!
She sleeps outside with Tex - although they have beds- they sleep on the outside lounge
suite. It drives both of us nuts as they are ruining it. And when guests come I have to run
the vacuum cleaner over them before they leave. (Will move their beds to the floor – I worry about snakes at night – that is why I elevated their beds – but it is not working anyway as Tosca is keeping him off it.) .
Just follow the programme to win their respect and shut down their hunt and in the meantime, put something on the couches to deter them. The more elevated their beds are, the more status they have.
Tex – Male Blue Tick crossed with Grey Hound – 9 months old
My big black beauty. Tex's parents are bred in the Kalahari and used to hunt down and kill
Caracal and Jackals. We want Tex to learn to follow the blood spoor of wounded animals.
.Hunting behaviour causes steroid surges, and steroids cause lack of inhibitions and misjudgments and a craving for the thrill of the kill. When the steroids are high enough…. You see what happens on the DVD.
In this environment the mortality of dogs can be high - owing to following and finding wounded
animals and then snakes. So we wanted more than one hunting dog so that if we lose
one we do not have to start from scratch again - they can learn from each other in the
meantime. Tosca is also meant to be a hunting back up dog - but she is too silly and too
wound up to concentrate on following a spoor. Zack is an absolute natural at it and keeps
his head. Finds the animal and if it is wouned he will bark to call my husband to him.
So Tex will learn from him.
In the home environment Tex is big and demanding - and I .(or a visitor) will pay for these sins - because
I have loved him too much and allowed it. He thinks that all visitors will love him similarly
and so positions himself for loves. I.e. in their face. In the morning we let them in to the house
to come and say hello. This morning I did not do my usual greeting of him and rolled away
from him - I was still in bed. He half climbed on to the bed to get to me and sniffed and poked
me. So I got out of bed and walked out the room. He and Mollly then climed on the bed and
had a game!! .There is no recreation in the wild.. if you are wise you will recognise these signals for what they are. The chaos with the dogs is not bad children. It is the Laws of the Jungle taking over.
He has a lovely gentle nature. He has also started jumping up at visitors –
.(Hardly gentle.) Do you know why?
which is a big
problem as he is then almost 6 feet tall.
He digs in the garden and pulls paper out of the bin which he shreds all over the place. Now this all makes perfect sense to you.
He lies on our feet when we watch TV - or under my feet when I cook. My kitchen is not big
enough to swing a cat - so I am contantly stepping .(and saying get out of the way, mind, sorry… which is the reason they are lying there. To get reactions. They have a lot of other places where they can lie, but it won't be such fun over Molly, Tex, Zack (when he is in the
mood) .(in ”hunting mode”)- Cleo lies out of the way. .
And watches the fun. (The referee, so to speak.)
He and Tosca play roughly together
.activate one another's emergency nervous system. Rabbits don't play – only carnivores develop hunt strategy in this way before a hunt.
a few times buidling up to snarling at each other.
…now the hunt is hotting up! And if you reprimand, you have been obedient. AND given them a steroid surge.
He plays with Molly a lot - but always pins her down and sort of chews on her.
…practicing for the real thing. (Our dogs' instincts do not know that they are domesticated.)
He will often invite Zack to play - who may and may not – depending on his mood.
He mostly tries to mount poor old Cleo, Molly too.
.Oops – now we have rape! Actually it is pseudo aggression. (See Living with an Alien.)
HE is starting brattish behaviour now that I am not responding to his advances – this morning when I did not respond to him he starting chewing everything he could in the bedroom – the stool, candles, stuff in the bed – he went from thing to thing to try and get a reaction!
.Living with an Alien explains this reaction to detox when dogs go cold turkey for the steroids that our “discipline” (reactions) give them. Like giving up smoking, it gets worse before it gets better.
Katie – pot bellied pig
As a result of Katie I cannot leave dog food on the floor as she polishes it all off.
So all the food is elevated on an area outside. But all the dogs eat on this level. Tex however
is big enough to stand on the ground and eat out the bowl.
Tosca would like to kill Katie.
.When the emergency nervous system is activated, prey is prey. It is for killing. They do what they were made to do. And that is not fetch our balls and sit when they are told to!
Tex would like to still play with her - she is sweet with the puppies - but then she starts to bite
.Now you know why….
them which starts a whole vicious cycle.
.Naturally…
Zack avoids her like the plague,
.The emergency nervous system is “fight or flee”. They are two sides of the same coin. Nervous dogs are frequently the most treacherous.
as do Molly and Cleo. Molly used to be friends with her - they
would go for walks together - it was the sweetest thing - but it no longer happens.
.Would you like to get that back?
Look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards
Pat
