What circumstances would you accept a dog biting?

very few.

although, a lot of those are handler mistakes.

if a dog is seriously injured and someone is trying to handle or help it, it is their fault if they don't muzzle it first.

startled from sleep? like i've said in the past, if someone scares the heck out of me while i'm having a dream, i may wake up swinging. twice i punched my ex husband when he jolted me awake rather roughly. it's not so hard to find other ways to wake up a dog. in my house, simply shaking the cookie jar has them all up in an instant.

if a dog is eating and it bites, there are issues. no, it's not "tolerable" it needs to be fixed, immediately.

if a dog bites in fear, chances are that it's got a poor temperament, and may not be able to be solved.

the circumstances warrant the outcome.

Whether or not I could accept my dog biting would upon the circumstances in which the bite incident occured.

If I purchased a professionally trained protection dog, there was an intruder in the house, & in the course of getting its job done it bit the person, I would think, what a great investment that dog was as it just saved me from possibly physical harm or death.

PP dogs are the safest to have in the home as they have sound temperaments, strong nerves, conditioned to know how to respond to threats & have the confidence to engage an intruder, not turn tail & run.

If a dog was seriously ill or recovering from an injury, the owner should bear this mind when handling the dog & not allow people visiting to have access to the dog by putting it in a crate or away in another room. If a dog snaps to warn someone who ignored the warning growl to back off, then it should have a firm verbal correction, but the behavior would be understandable.

As the leader in my household, I am in control of every aspect of their lives & all the resources belong to me. I allow them to have food, bones ect on my terms not theirs, nothing belong to the dog, & I expect to be able to remove anything from the dog, whenever I want to {not that I would remove their food just because I felt like it!}

If my dog guarded a bone & snapped causing a flesh wound, I would not think it was in any way acceptable, but neither would I set myself up to fail by attempting to wrestle the bone away. Instead I would get a higher value food item, call the dog, and command it to sit, give the new food & then remove the bones.

I would then recreate the circumstances where the dog exhibited unacceptable behavior by giving it a bone *but* this time it would be wearing a prong collar & long lead. If the dog repeated the behavior it would be given a hard enough correction to teach it that resource guarding caused an immediate negative consequence it would rather avoid.

Bite incidents don't happen out of the blue {though dog owners often bleat that it was so unexpected} & there are always warning signs in the dogs behavior, overall body posture & vocal communication, which the owner failed to pick up on, ignored or misinterpreted, so missed the opportunity to step in & take control of a situation.

absolutely if the dog is injured, also if the dog is in a position of defending itself against serious threat. I hate it when people seem to think that a dog should tolerate any abuse that is inflicted on it without any repercussion. Especially with kids. Do I want a dog to ever bite a kid? No. I was bitten when I was 11, in the face and it sucked, but it was also my fault. I remember a going to a babysitting job and when I got there, the family was in uproar because their shepherd mix had "bitten" their kid. First of all, it wasn't a bite, but a bruise, and 2nd, the dog was tied up on a short rope and the child was smacking it with a big foam pool noodle. It's a shame that people don't supervise their children around dogs the way they should.

I would not accept a dog biting as a default behaviour, or biting as an overreaction, as a threat or to bully.

But otherwise it's not a black and white thing for me. It depends on the situation. If an injured dog bites, then it should obviously have been muzzled. I can't blame a dog in pain or panic for biting, but I can blame my own lack of insight for being bitten.

If a dog bites because of food aggression...obviously the dogs boundaries have been crossed, obviously the dog needs to be trained.

Startled from sleep, again not a good reaction, but something that can obviously be worked around, through trust training and not disturbing the dog while it sleeps.

If the dog is injured, it is really hard to blame the dog. I would say that is a special case. Generally speaking, I would not tolerate a biting dog. The dog needs to understand its place in the "pack".

Only if the dog is injured or if I was on someone else property trying to steal their crap and their dog came around the corner and started chewing on my leg. But my dogs better not bite me unless they are seriously injured.

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injured.. and biting from pain, I consider acceptable

biting vet out of fear, acceptable- the vet is an unpleasant place. Biting groomer.. understandable. "I" dont really consider it acceptable for my own dogs, as there's no reason why you cant get your dog used to being brushed and handled, but many people fail to do this, then rely on the groomer to groom their unruly dog.

Warning nip to a tormenting toddler.. when the parent failed to supervise them properly and allowed the kid to torment the dog.. the dog's had enough.

startled from sleep.. may depend on the dog and how the dog was startled. Say it was an old arthritic dog and someone tripped over him.. he may have bit out of a reaction to pain as well as being startled.

eating- absolutly not

never..

injured? you should treat the dog so it doesnt fear you, or treat it so that it cannot harm you while you are helping it.

Startled from sleep? you should wake the dog, not just randomly approach it and touch.

Eating? are you joking? if dog bites you while it is feeding and you approach it, your pack position is nuts.

That being said, one of dog handler's duties is NOT pushing the dog into such situation that would result in self defense.

Biting in other circumstances cannot and should NOT be tolerated.

I heard a story that a dog was being walked down a street by its owner, it got off the leash and tore apart a smaller dog, this dog was a pit bull. I think, in cold blood like that, the dog should be put down. if the dog is injured, and bites, thats fair enough, it's trying to protect itself, it's going back to its ancestry of wolves. Dogs usually learn from an early age that biting when someone takes food from it is bad, and they learn from the repurcussions of snapping or biting. Even if the dog gets startled in its sleep, that should be accepted, because, again going back to wolf ancestry, if a wolf is woken up by something hitting it or moving close to it, it jumps up ready to attack, to protect itself. Even though dogs dont look like wolves, they do have 90% of wolf characteristics in their behaviour. My dog snaps at people when they jump on her when she is asleep, and I leave it to her ancestry. I just warn people to not startle her when shes sleeping, insted they call her first.I feel sorry for dogs bred to fight, because they can never go back to being a normal dog after just one fight, and they will eventually snap and be "destroyed" the only unnacceptable circumstances of a dog biting is if it kills, unprovoked.