What Really Predicts Dog Bites? With Dr. Helen Howell
About this episode
The episode discusses the complexities of dog bite risk assessment with expert Dr. Helen Howell.
You can’t “test” your way to certainty about whether a dog will bite—and provoking a dog during an assessment may tell us very little about the risk that dog presents in the real world. In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Helen Howell, a forensic behaviorist and expert witness who works on serious injury and fatality cases. We talk about what a modern dog bite risk assessment should look like when the goal is not only to assess risk, but also to identify practical ways to reduce it. Helen brin...
People in this episode
Host: Michael Shikashio
Guest: Dr. Helen Howell
Topics covered
- dog bites
- risk assessment
- behavior analysis
- dog safety
- forensic behavior
- injury prevention
Keywords
- dog bites
- risk assessment
- behaviorist
- safety
- injury
- forensic
- dog behavior
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: forensic behaviorist
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