Chip, I dont think it's your fault. I have a grooming background and we HAVE to handle strange dogs, do all kind of god-aweful things to strange dogs, clean out their ears, shave their balls (I'm not kidding) brush their teeth. I understand that in your line of work you HAVE to handle strange dogs. AND dog owners need to take more responsibility for their dog's behavior.
I think you should have got pissed and gave them a piece of your mind! If everyone whom this dog bit plays it off these people will never think it's a big deal until someone (God forbid) get's really hurt.
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Yep. I'm with you. If we work with dogs, we expect every interaction to have risk built into it.
"Experienced animal handlers - including those who work with dogs - are well aware that when working with an otherwise well behaved creature some thing can and very probably will go wrong."
Could one ASS-U-ME that every dog will bite if the right circumstances come together for that individual dog?
I just alway wonder about "that dog" that we all knew as a kid that would tolerate all the crap that you could give it. There has to be a point at which "that dog" would bite, too, right?
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Could one ASS-U-ME that every dog will bite if the right circumstances come together for that individual dog?
I just alway wonder about "that dog" that we all knew as a kid that would tolerate all the crap that you could give it. There has to be a point at which "that dog" would bite, too, right?
I sure think so.
It may not be a tolerate-crap thing at all, for "that dog." But something will make the dog bite, just as something will make the most pacifist human react violently. At least that's MHO.
You just always hear, "I have a dog that I know won't bite, never did."
And I know "that dog" they are talking about, too. That old, faithful lab that never ran away, always played with kids, loved all animals, got mama when Timmy fell in the well.....
It would just make sense that something could trigger a bite. "That dog" simply never experienced that something, though.
Could one ASS-U-ME that every dog will bite if the right circumstances come together for that individual dog?
Something I should mention regarding my handling of other folks' dogs (and would have already if I possessed Mr. Arnold'sMARVELOUS train of thought ), is that in 99.9% of the cases I was the one holding said dog's leash.
Indeed, regardless of what most owners had to say about their super special Fluffies and Fidos, I didn't trust a lick of it. I would smile and nod, take a cesar approach to the owners (I stick around in the customer service industry for a reason ), take over control of the dog, and then do what needed to be done with the dog ... and I know I saved my own skin many times simply by being proactive with the animal and treating it like a thing with teeth.
The other 0.1% were dogs that I knew well, or dogs that read in such a way that I knew better than to try and handle in a pet store environment (these were the few that I would spare the extra extra time with to "simply" instruct the owners, step by agonizingly slow step, in how to fit, apply, etc. appropriate merchandise).
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), is that in 99.9% of the cases I was the one holding said dog's leash. 
), take over control of the dog, and then do what needed to be done with the dog ... and I know I saved my own skin many times simply by being proactive with the animal and treating it like a thing with teeth.
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