AVA Conference Melbourne 2017

This half-day workshop will explore risk assessment of the dog aggressive dog – a simple approach. By Dr Martin Godbout DVM, DACVB.  
Dog aggression - assessing the risk: part 1 (90 min)
When a dog bites someone and the owner comes to the veterinary clinic for professional advice, it is always difficult for the veterinarian to clearly distinguish between a dog expressing a normal behavioural sequence for the context and a dog representing a real danger for the population. Through better understanding of normal aggressive behaviour, the participants will learn how to assess the dangerousness of an aggressive dog through a 10-step evaluation process.
Dog aggression - assessing the risk: part 2 (120 min)
The participants will practice their abilities to assess the dangerousness of an aggressive dog through different virtual cases of dog aggression.