Dog Safety
The purpose of this report is to discuss being aware of childhood injuries. Childhood injuries can affect a child in many different ways. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare says that the most common childhood injuries in 2006-2007 were poisoning, falls, road accidents, burns/scalds and dog attacks. Childhood injuries are often call “accidents”, these are normally injuries that happen to a child either physically or mentally. This report will be discussing the effects of dog bites and how you can prevent them. Finally this will suggest and make some recommendations about the key issues of, how to prevent dog bites, how it affects the developmental areas and by showing some statistics to back up the information.
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One would be clearly state to the child what is wrong and what is right. Like for example, if mammy doesn’t like it then dog won’t either. There is all so a little game you can teach child to play when meeting new or stranger’s dogs. It’s called the Tree Game, this is when the child is being or will be approached by a stranger’s dog, and they must immediately stand still, with arms, but there sides, with their eyes cast downwards and staying absolutely sill and silent. You can make this a fun game to play when at home to help teach the child what to do when that happens. And by having the child pretending to be the dog so they get the idea of the game (Love that pet, n.d.). Somethings that would be good to let the child know would be. To seek an adult or owner of the dog before interacting with the strangers dog. To respect a dog’s territory, by not going near a dog when it’s behind a fence, tied up or in a car. To never let them hug a dog, let them know that this might course the dog to bite them in the face. To all way play gently with dogs, playing rough could cause the dog to get overexcited and bite. And also to never interrupt a dog when it’s sleeping, eating, chewing on a bone or playing with a toy (WikiHow, n.d.). How it can impact developmental areas?
There are many things that could happen if a dog does attacks a child or anyone. This can produce serious physical, psychological and emotional effects. Some
The purpose of this report is to discuss being aware of childhood injuries. Childhood injuries can affect a child in many different ways. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare says that the most common childhood injuries in 2006-2007 were poisoning, falls, road accidents, burns/scalds and dog attacks. Childhood injuries are often call “accidents”, these are normally injuries that happen to a child either physically or mentally. This report will be discussing the effects of dog bites and how you can prevent them. Finally this will suggest and make some recommendations about the key issues of, how to prevent dog bites, how it affects the developmental areas and by showing some statistics to back up the information.
Key issues …show more content…
One would be clearly state to the child what is wrong and what is right. Like for example, if mammy doesn’t like it then dog won’t either. There is all so a little game you can teach child to play when meeting new or stranger’s dogs. It’s called the Tree Game, this is when the child is being or will be approached by a stranger’s dog, and they must immediately stand still, with arms, but there sides, with their eyes cast downwards and staying absolutely sill and silent. You can make this a fun game to play when at home to help teach the child what to do when that happens. And by having the child pretending to be the dog so they get the idea of the game (Love that pet, n.d.). Somethings that would be good to let the child know would be. To seek an adult or owner of the dog before interacting with the strangers dog. To respect a dog’s territory, by not going near a dog when it’s behind a fence, tied up or in a car. To never let them hug a dog, let them know that this might course the dog to bite them in the face. To all way play gently with dogs, playing rough could cause the dog to get overexcited and bite. And also to never interrupt a dog when it’s sleeping, eating, chewing on a bone or playing with a toy (WikiHow, n.d.). How it can impact developmental areas?
There are many things that could happen if a dog does attacks a child or anyone. This can produce serious physical, psychological and emotional effects. Some