Aggressive conflicts amongst dogs and factors affecting them

Röll, Alexander; Unshelm, Jürgen

doi:10.1016/s0168-1591(96)01125-2

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“…The incidence of dog bites administered to other dogs culminated in summer months, similar to findings of Roll and Unshelm (1997) and others. However, the records of our Small Animal Clinic do not indicate the site of the conflict (in private locations or on streets and side walks, in parks etc.)…”

Section: Monthssupporting

confidence: 85%

“…A similar proportion, namely 78% males and 22% females involved in animal interaction resulting in injury, was also reported by Kolata et al (1974) though this interaction included other animals as well. Our results show slightly higher numbers than those reported in the study of Roll and Unshelm (1997). In this context, it is interesting to note that some authors found aggressivity of females to be lower (S erpell and Jagoe 1995; Willis 1995; Landsberg and Ruehl 1997;Overall 1997).…”

Section: Monthscontrasting

confidence: 69%

“…However, the records of our Small Animal Clinic do not indicate the site of the conflict (in private locations or on streets and side walks, in parks etc.) so that it can only be assumed that these incidents happened outside home during walks similar to the report by Roll and Unshelm (1997). Neither do we know whether the dog conflict was of a household type (dogs of one household; Sherman et al 1996) or between strange dogs.…”

Section: Monthsmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Although analyses of intraspecies bites in dogs are available Sherman et al 1996;Roll and Unshelm 1997;Griffin and Holt 2001;Shamir et al 2002), there are still aspects of the problem that deserve attention (such as the long-term epidemiology of bite incidents). In this retrospective study we analyzed data about victims of aggression between dogs in terms of bite wounds recorded during two two-year periods ten years apart.…”

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Epidemology of Intraspecies Bite Wounds in Dogs in the Czech Republic

Baranyiová¹,

Holub²,

Martiníková³

et al. 2003

Acta Vet. Brno

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The epidemiology of bite wounds in dogs that resulted from intraspecies conflicts and were treated at the Small Animal Clinic, Department of Surgery and Orthopedics, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno was evaluated from 246 records in 1989-90 and 337 records in 1998-99. The number of bite incidents fluctuated during the year. The majority of incidents occurred in summer months, i.e. in the second (n = 149) and third (n = 193) trimester of the year. In comparison, only 119 and 122 bite victims were treated in winter months, i.e. in the first and fourth trimester, respectively. The total number of bite victims increased (p < 0.01) between the first and the second period under study. Most treated dogs belonged to small (37.9%), and large (24.8%) breeds, followed by medium-sized (19.0%), giant (11%) and toy breeds (7.3%). A high proportion of the victims were 1 year (11.4%) and 2 years (15.6%) of age, and the proportion decreased with age down to 1% at 11 years. Also, there were indicators for a sex effect. Of the 571 cases where the dog´s sex was recorded 176 concerned a female (30.3%) and 405 (69.7%) a male. For 503 dogs the positions of the wounds were recorded. A large portion of the wounds was administered to the thorax (26.6%) and head (24.30%), i.e. the frontal body parts. More than one fourth of all head wounds were in the relatively small areas around the eyes (28.7%). Fewer bites were on the limbs (17.7%), neck (17.3%) and in the abdominal regions (14.3%). These data suggest that for dogs the risk of being wounded by a conspecific differs between seasons and depends on a dog´s age, sex and body size.

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Epidemology of Intraspecies Bite Wounds in Dogs in the Czech Republic

Baranyiová¹,

Holub²,

Martiníková³

et al. 2003

Acta Vet. Brno

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“…Breeds selected for rat hunting and fighting -such as the Terriers -have been shown to be less fearful compared with breeds selected for bird hunting and Herding (Mahut, 1958). These breeds, together with working breeds, are also over-represented as initiators in dog-fights (Roll and Unshelm, 1997). This is supported by Bradshaw et al (1996), whose results suggested that Working dogs/guard dogs and Terriers are more aggressive than other breeds.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%