| Dogs not to blame, says expert
PEOPLE need training in dealing with aggressive dogs, and the dogs themselves are not to blame for attacks, a canine expert says after two women were savaged by a pit bull. A 27-year-old woman and a 40-year-old woman were attacked by a pit bull at a house in the Hunter region, north of Sydney, yesterday. One of the victims required facial surgery and was still in hospital this morning. The dog attacked the younger woman before turning on the older woman when she tried to intervene, police said. Police said they had not yet found the dog or its owner and and why the dog was in the home had not been established. Dog behaviour expert Vern Ryan said he believed the owner of the animal caused the attack. "It is time that owners were held responsible for their dog's actions, not the dog itself," Mr Ryan said today.
Dog attack decoys provide critical training
HURLBURT FIELD, Fla - Slightly gray, worn heavily with sweat and torn from wear, is an arm-mounted bite sleeve used to protect "decoys" from canine attack injuries. Staff Sgt. Rebecca Lind, 1st Special Operations Security Forces Squadron, is the senior canine decoy training instructor, oversees proper administering of canine decoy and attack training. She teaches regulated decoy posturing to ensure the canines understand proper aggression techniques toward assailants. She teaches this course only to civilian law enforcement personnel and military individuals requiring proficiency in canine handling procedures. Military and civilian police personnel train with 70 to 100 pound military police dogs to ensure that both police personnel and military dogs understand how to better work with one another.
Police Dog Suspended After Biting Dispatcher
NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. -- A prominent member of the North Andover police force has been suspended, though the department did not take away a gun or a badge. The department's police dog, Kyzer, bit a police dispatcher for no apparent reason. Kyzer bolted from his handler, Sgt. Chuck Gray, and attacked dispatcher Nathan Kenney. The dog could be sent for retraining. Or nothing could happen to the dog, if it's found to have been acting according to its training. Kenney was treated at Lawrence General Hospital for a minor bite and was released. He was placed on injury leave with a sore arm. Gray told the Eagle Tribune newspaper that the dog is "more social'' than his previous canine partner. .
Residents on alert after Great Dane bites housewife in Aichi city
OWARIASAHI, Aichi -- Local residents are on the alert following an incident in which a large dog believed to be a Great Dane attacked a housewife, biting her hand. Parents and teachers at schools in the area where the incident occurred are standing guard along school routes to make sure that no children are attacked. Officials at the Aichi prefectural animal welfare center believe the dog came from a former store in the neighboring city of Seto, and warned the owner, but the owner said his dog was not responsible. Police who received a complaint from the woman who was bitten plan to question the man in the near future on suspicion of injury through negligence. Seto Municipal Government officials said a worker at a prefectural labor training center spotted two black dogs and one white dog in the city at about 3 p.m.
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