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About
dog attacks
After
thousands of years of domestication and selective
breeding for dogs who do not show aggression towards humans, most dogs
are unlikely to attack people. However, provocation can range
from
something as seemingly innocuous as a toddler pulling a dog's tail, in
which case the dog might nip to discourage the behavior, to something
completely undetectable to humans, such as an odor or a movement that
sets a dog off.
Blatant human aggression or violence towards a dog,
may cause it to defend itself. There are hundreds of shades of
provocation; it is not always a black and white case as to why a dog
might attack a human.
Dogs
can inflict serious, sometimes fatal, injury to
humans. As evidenced by their attacks on other creatures, both wild and
domestic dogs are superpredators, though tamer (and weaker) than the
wolves from which they descended. Their sharp teeth and powerful jaws
can inflict serious injuries; their sharp claws have powerful muscles
behind them.
Scratches from dogs are easily infected. Even a boisterous
dog of adequate size can knock down a person and possibly cause serious
injury although there was no intent on the part of the animal. A single
large dog, or a group of medium-sized dogs, are capable of seriously
injuring or killing an adult human. Fortunately there are
measures you can take to avoid dog attacks!
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