An Ounce of Prevention in Dog Bite Cases | Minneapolis, St Paul MN Injury Attorneys

The MN dog bite injury attorneys at Lord and Faris are accustomed to witnessing all that can go wrong when an interaction between people and dogs goes bad. In fact, in 2007 alone over three thousand people received medical attention for dog bites. And while not all of those bites were lethal, none of them needed to happen. All to often a tragic injury could have been avoided had both the pet and its owner received proper education and training.

So when we hear about programs like this one it makes us feel a bit more secure that a senseless dog bite can be avoided.

The program is targeted at owners of dangerous breeds–often pit bulls, Rottweilers, Dobermans and German shepherds and the dogs and teaches them how to prevent problems by learning to recognize and understand each other’s verbal and nonverbal cues. These kinds of training programs are different than standard obedience classes in that they require pet owners to delve deeper than basic commands and really understand the psychology of their breed.

Programs like this really embrace the notion that a little bit of education goes a long way toward prevention. This is especially true for owners who get a pet as a young pup and perhaps fail to grasp that their adorable little puppy will very soon turn into upwards of sixty pounds of muscle that may or may not be easy to control on a leash.

Hopefully these kinds of programs prevent tragedies for families and pet owners alike. At the very least they can raise awareness that not all breed of dogs can be raised the same, no matter how innocent and harmless they seem as puppies.