Dog attacks are reported in the media every single day, all around the world. Fortunately fatal dog attacks are, whilst horrific and tragic, rare occurrences. But the fact remains that every single day someone, somewhere will be bitten by a dog, the animal most deserving of the title, 'man's best friend'.

A dog attack most often the culmination of a wide variety of factors. They can include poor breeding, lack of socialisation, fear, absence of control or very often the inability of some people to full understand canine body language.

In nearly all cases the contributing factors to a dog attack could have been created by humans or could have been prevented by human intervention.

It is undoubtedly a lack of education, occasionally empathy and sometimes basic, fundamental welfare and care provided by humans to dogs which lead to dog attacks.

Just take a look at how popular certain dog attack related search terms are across the Internet.

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14,966
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2,657
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1,369
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627
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445
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364
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214
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105
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Whilst it is probable and true that many of these searches are conducted by people who wish to learn more about how to avoid dog attacks, train their dogs better or simply understand what causes dog attacks, it is a fair assumption to make that a lot of people seek to train their dogs to attack or get some kind of perverted reward from watching dog attack videos or pictures of dog attacks on people.

There can be little argument that there are, as proved by the search statistics above, people seeking information and advice on how to make their dogs aggressive.

We cannot hide from the fact that whilst their are dog owners who wish to cultivate aggressive dogs who will attack people, dogs will continue to be involved in incidents that lead to injury or even death by dog bite. A tragic state of affairs.

Which is why it is essential to understand that the key to overcoming dog attacks is to educate people about why dogs attack, what prompts a dog to bite a person, what motivates a dog to become aggressive (or defensive) and most importantly what steps we can take to avoid dog bites and dog attacks in the future.

Useful Dog Attack Resources