12/12/2022
Is It A Kiss Or A Dismiss?
By: Jennifer Shryock BA, CDBC
“We just don’t understand why he bit her out of the blue! He always gives her kisses! He loves our daughter!”
These are the very words I heard repeated over and over through our Family Paws Dog & Baby Support line that led me to dig deeper. So frequent is this type of call and situation that over time I began to pay attention to the pattern of the description “kisses.” I wondered why so many bite calls included the mention of a dog licking or “kissing the child.” I became curious if there was a correlation and if so I wanted to understand more. Was a lick a “kiss?” Or was it possibly a “dismiss?” Licking can be many things. Grooming, care taking, self-soothing, appeasement — but what about distance increasing or a cut off cue?
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