8 rules to avoid dog bites

Among the most common injuries, which patients come to the emergency department of hospitals, for many years now appear on dog bites. How not to be among the next victims of our four-legged pets?

Only in the USA the share bitten by dogs accounting for 368,000 hospital emergency room patients each year. This is 1008 people per day. Dog bites can remind yourself faint mark on the caviar, and may lead to horrific injuries, up to the loss of limbs and entire face. This damage usually is not to charge someone with, because most people bitten by stray dogs, no matter how ordinary people have sinned on pit bulls and Rottweilers home.

The most experienced dog handlers have developed this set of rules for those who do not want to become a victim of an angry animal. So:

1. Never approach a strange dog, and even more so do not try to pet them. Learn this and your children.

2. Dog - not plush toy. Even your pet do not need to kiss, squeeze, roll on the floor. And especially do not try to do so with unfamiliar dogs.

3. Never look a dog straight in the eye. Animals perceive it as a threat and a challenge to fight.

4. Allow the dog ran up to sniff you, do not make sudden movements, which it may deem threatening.

5. If the dog runs to you, do not try to escape. Unless the entrance is not in two or three steps, the chance to get away from a dog you do not have any. And your flight immediately activates the hunting instincts of the animal. Dogs bite more often people who move quickly than those who stand still.

6. Even if the dog barks and tries to jump on you, stay calm and do not move. The vast majority of dogs quickly lose interest in objects that do not move.

7. If the dog knocked you off your feet, close the face with his hands, curl up and do not move. In no case should not yell.

8. If the dog got you on the road and barks threateningly, and her snarling jaws gradually approaching you, slowly turn his back on her and move away to the side. Do not look into the eyes of a dog, go carefully and slowly.

Treatment and prevention

Go back to the main page