E361- A Service Dog Bit Someone in the Face — Now What?

Tom Davis· Host0:00

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the No Bad Dogs podcast. This is amazing. This is, uh, something we've never done before, and this is a service dog German Shepherd that, uh, is now becoming aggressive and has a bite history. So what do we do? What can we do? And more importantly, uh, uh, the reason why it's titled this is, like, the three steps to really h- figuring out a game plan for your reactive dog or your aggressive dog, or the dog has a bite. And we go over those things, uh, very candidly and very honestly, and we just kinda go over, like, hard things that I don't think a lot of dog trainers are even talking about, where... Well, you guys will listen. But it's really just about, like, hey, if you get a dog for a very particular thing, like a working dog, and in this case, this dog is a working dog. He's a service dog to help this, uh, lady out, and she's in a wheelchair. She's, she's handicapped, and the dog is biting people. And I'm like, "Hey, get a new dog. Give the dog back." And that's just a real conversation that a lot of people, I think, need to hear because pet owners just assume... You know, and I'm b- and it's kinda contradicting for me, I think, on the outside 'cause you're like, "Oh, No Bad Dogs. Like, why would you ever give a dog back?" I'm like, "No, no, no." No Bad Dogs means the majority of people who come into my facility and their dog is out of control and pulling them dr- down, it's probably their fault. That's what No Bad Dogs means. If the dog is doing a bunch of stuff, there's a really good chance that the owners have done all of that. And I'm not saying that the owner of this dog didn't make mistakes to