One way to help prevent dog bites is to pay attention to a dog's body language.
Dogs usually communicate through body language like tail wagging and direction of their ears; learning and watching for signals like these could help prevent you and your children from harmful dog interaction.
Some signals to watch for:
- Lip licking – when a dog is anxious, they will quickly stick out their tongue and lick their lips in a fast, little flick.
- Yawning – a dog yawns when they are feeling stressed or uncomfortable.
- Turning their face away – when a dog turns its face away, it means that it is uncomfortable with the situation and is trying to avoid what is or may happen.
- Shaking off – while dogs do shake to dry off, they shake for other reasons as well. They use shaking as a reset button. When a situation is too stressful, dogs may shake to help distress.
- Freezing – when dogs become frozen it usually it is their last attempt to tell you to back-off before they snap or bite.
Here is a graphic to help understand dog's behavior:
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