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[QUOTE="dougfitz, post: 1146657, member: 10982"] If there is anything that is universally applicable is that all dogs will bite. Anyone who tells you that their dog doesn't is not aware that that the dog will bite, but has not yet been pushed to the limit of its tolerance by someone's behaviour. If you have a fear of being attacked, I think it is up to you to know how to avoid confrontations with working dogs, but I do concede that owners who have trained their dogs to be aggressive also have a responsibility to ensure those dogs don't threaten the safety of the public in general. I generally stay on the path but keep walking towards a barking dog and talk to it quietly, and will offer the back of my hand for it to sniff if it gets close. If it keeps barking or starts to bare its teeth and snarl at this point, I move on. If it wants to sniff my hand I let it. Over several Caminos I have been nipped once on the back of my hand by a nasty little long nosed terrier when I didn't sense its change in mood when doing this. I find the saddest dogs are those in house and farm yards that, when you approach, go running off, then come running back, and repeating this the whole time you are walking past. There was one that after a couple of cycles was pretty much spinning on the spot. I couldn't help but wonder what had driven it to this. I couldn't watch any more, and had to keep walking to give it some relief from this erratic behaviour. I have never, fortunately, met a farm dog that has been truly aggressive, although I have walked past some dogs guarding business premises that I'm happy are on the other side of a high fence! They are truly disturbing to see, knowing that they may have been trained to attack when no handler is present. In the main, my interactions with dogs have generally been unremarkable. The few really aggressive ones have been on chains or enclosed yards, and those few that haven't been generally lose interest as I keep moving. [/QUOTE]
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