Instructor Note: This usually occurs between dogs of the same sex. Dogs that are usually competitive and territorial and usually are focused on dominance versus submissiveness. Fear and territory are other influences in this type of aggression. Barking, chasing, and growling, lunging and biting that is evident in mature dogs is generally seen in puppies during learning and playing. Anyone who owns more than one cog sometimes see’s this with their own dogs when playing. SOURCE: Redirected Aggression If you interrupt a dog’s aggression behavior toward another person or an animal and the dog barks at, snaps at, growls at or bites you, this is considered redirected aggression. This can happen to anyone who tries to interfere when a dog is about to attack or is already in the fight. Instructor Note: If you interrupt a dog's aggressive behavior toward another person or even an animal and the dog barks at, snaps at, growls at or bites you, this could be considered redirected aggression. This happens to anyone who tries to interfere when a dog is about to attack or is already in the fight. So any officer should always be careful when interrupting a dog that may be concentrating on something else other than the officer. Who knows, maybe the dog is telling the officer there is another problem he is looking at and that the officer should be concerned about that. SOURCE: Unit Goal: Non-lethal tools/methods/resources to avoid and defend against canine attack 3.1 Describe the usage of on-scene awareness when approaching a situation involving a canine call Officer Awareness
Instructor Note: This usually occurs between dogs of the same sex. Dogs that are usually competitive and territorial and usually are focused on dominance versus submissiveness. Fear and territory are other influences in this type of aggression. Barking, chasing, and growling, lunging and biting that is evident in mature dogs is generally seen in puppies during learning and playing. Anyone who owns more than one cog sometimes see’s this with their own dogs when playing. SOURCE: Redirected Aggression If you interrupt a dog’s aggression behavior toward another person or an animal and the dog barks at, snaps at, growls at or bites you, this is considered redirected aggression. This can happen to anyone who tries to interfere when a dog is about to attack or is already in the fight. Instructor Note: If you interrupt a dog's aggressive behavior toward another person or even an animal and the dog barks at, snaps at, growls at or bites you, this could be considered redirected aggression. This happens to anyone who tries to interfere when a dog is about to attack or is already in the fight. So any officer should always be careful when interrupting a dog that may be concentrating on something else other than the officer. Who knows, maybe the dog is telling the officer there is another problem he is looking at and that the officer should be concerned about that. SOURCE: Unit Goal: Non-lethal tools/methods/resources to avoid and defend against canine attack 3.1 Describe the usage of on-scene awareness when approaching a situation involving a canine call Officer Awareness
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