Reminder: Dog Bite Prevention and Rabies Education Tuesday, Thursday

Dog Bites Insurance Companies: Man's Best Friend Behind One-Third of All Homeowner Claims

Animal Services is continuing to teach their education courses to the community to help teach children and adults about dog bite prevention. Animal Services is offering community education courses this week to help teach residents about rabies, dog bite prevention and proper pet care. The rabies and dog bite prevention courses will be held August 6th at 6:30 p.m. at the Abilene Public Library located at 202 Cedar St., and August 8th at 7:00 p.m. at the Mockingbird Library branch. Since June 1st Animal Services has processed 65 bite reports from Abilene citizens.
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Dog Bite Prevention Week: A Time to Take Responsibility for Dog Bites

Medical expenses from dog attacks cost the Postal Service just over $1 million last year, officials said. The third full week each May is National Dog Bite Prevention Week and State Farm, the U.S. Postal Service, the American Veterinary Medical Association and CDCP release dog bite statistics and launch campaigns to promote dog safety. Despite the large number of attacks on letter carriers, the Postal Service decided to focus on children for their campaign because a child is 900 times more likely to be attacked than a letter carrier, Maher said. Heredity, training, socialization, health, and the behavior of humans around it can all contribute to a dog's tendency to bite, Martinez said. The ASPCA predicts half of all children in the United States will be bitten by a dog before 12.
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Dog bite claims cost insurers $497M in 2011, insurance group says

They think their dog is the greatest thing in the world and give them freedom with no training." Besenick suggests carrying citronella spray at all times, which can defuse a dogfight. CDC officials advise teaching pet dogs submissive behaviors like rolling over to expose the abdomen and relinquishing food without growling. If a dog develops aggressive or undesirable behaviors, federal health officials say families must immediately seek professional advice from someone like a veterinarian or an animal behaviorist. If it is just a spat, make a loud noise and leave the room. Most dogfights happen in the presence of humans, Odenwald says.
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But as the New York Times noted , once a dog bite takes place at your home, the insurer could raise the premium or even exclude dog-related injuries from coverage. Some animal cruelty prevention societies report that homeowners have been denied insurance because they own certain high-risk breeds of dogs, including Pit Bulls and Rottweilers. A couple of states outlaw breed profiling, but most states allow insurance companies to deny or cancel coverage if a certain breed of dog is living at the home. Earlier this year, for instance, a Colorado womans homeowners policy was canceled after an insurance agent had stopped by the house to check on a plumbing claim and discovered that a Pit Bull was in residence. The dog wasnt involved in the claim at all, and had never bitten anyone, the owner said. (MORE: Overindulge Much? Top 10 Conspicuously Expensive Purchases ) Besides the insurance association, another organization heralding last weeks Dog Bite Prevention was the U.S.
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Treating dog bites

'He just went to take the dog's toy. He's just a toddler and he fell on the dog. There was no initial introduction into the house.'" Most cases of bites are an accident that has been waiting to happen many times over and the owners or humans have just been lucky. The overall take home message so far though is that people need to learn how to interact appropriately with dogs and to read the warning signs that the dog is feeling uncomfortable. Hernandez also stresses that the dog http://dogbitealternatives.com/dog-bite-claims-fall-except-for-mail-carriers-2/ owner has to take responsibility. "With dog owners I'm hearing [them say] that it's someone else's fault. 'This is my dog and how dare the child ride a skateboard on the sidewalk or how dare these kids scream and run like kids do in the front of my house' " he states. What they should be asking according to Hernandez, is "What am I going to do to get my dog accustomed to the normalcies of life." Because children and people just walking, doing their own thing is very different from those who interact with the pet inappropriately.
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A Dog Bite and Found Needle

Dont play aggressive games with your dog (e.g., wrestling). Properly socialize and train any dog entering your household. Teach the dog submissive behaviors (e.g., rolling over to expose the abdomen and giving up food without growling). Immediately seek professional advice (e.g., from veterinarians, animal behaviorists, or responsible breeders) if the dog develops aggressive or undesirable behaviors. Are there safety tips for children? To help prevent children from being bitten by dogs, teach the following basic safety tips and review them regularly: Do not approach an unfamiliar dog.
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Dog bites man - a lot

Credit: Terry Date Loading... Next Previous Slideshow Download Monday, Aug. 5 At 6:36 p.m., police helped a North Stone Road resident find a lost dog but the animalwas stuck and police called theanimal control officer to the scene. At 9:04 a.m., police received a report from Franklin Road about a vehicle with a flat tire that appeared to be abandoned. At 9:07 p.m., police received a report of a used needle near the trash pick-up sign at Phillips Beach. At 11:12 a.m., police received a report of a youngman on a bicycle taking pictures of trains, about eight of them,pulling in and out of the Swampscott Train Station. At 1:12 p.m., a motor vehicle accident with personal injury was reported on Humphrey Street.
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