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04/04/2025
Stick your hand out🤔
Don't stick your hand out❓
Last week there was a post (elsewhere) about why we should stick our hands out when we greet a dog.
I am not into social media "wars" and I don't like mocking others that disagree or have a different opinion.
There were also reasons given regarding the Jacobson's organ and how it plays a vital role....which it does....but I still wouldn't and don't put my outstretched hand towards a dog to sniff when I first meet them.
Quite seriously....I probably wouldn't have a hand left.
I take the pressure right off.
Generally speaking, I don't interact at all for several minutes (or much longer) and nor do I make sustained eye contact.
Meeting a dog (especially in this profession) is very nuanced and I guess because I work with a lot of anxious and reactive dogs...I am privy to hearing about how dogs bit when people put their hands towards them "to sniff".
Does that mean I don't allow a dog to come up to me to get a good whiff of my pheromones and to read that "up close and personal information" they need.....of course I allow it, when the time is right.
I allow them to approach.
I don't approach.
Works well for me, you may think differently and that is all good.
Everyone is free to respectfully disagree.
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