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The epidemiology of bite wounds in dogs that resulted from intraspecies conflicts and were treated at the Small Animal Clinic, Department of Surgery and Orthopedics, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno was evaluated from 246 records in 1989-90 and 337 records in 199899
Information about dog bites was collected from the ambulance records of the Small Animal Clinic, Department of Surgery, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Brno, Czech Republic
The total number of bite victims increased by 37% between the first and the second period under study (f = 28.408, p < 0.01)
Summary
The epidemiology of bite wounds in dogs that resulted from intraspecies conflicts and were treated at the Small Animal Clinic, Department of Surgery and Orthopedics, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno was evaluated from 246 records in 1989-90 and 337 records in 199899. Fewer bites were on the limbs (17.7%), neck (17.3%) and in the abdominal regions (14.3%) These data suggest that for dogs the risk of being wounded by a conspecific differs between seasons and depends on a dogs age, sex and body size. Even if sometimes not clearly formulated, suggested that aggression is a unitary phenomenon (Azrin et al 1965; Lorenz 1966) Nowadays this simplistic idea is accepted less frequently (Hetts et al 1992; Houpt and Willis 2001) but as stated by Fraser and Rushen (1987), it still survives.
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