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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5566072" data-attributes="member: 59506">Absolutely!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> The only absolute with animals is there is no absolute (kind of like people<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/angel.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":angel:" title="Angel    :angel:" data-shortname=":angel:" />). I think you might have misunderstood what I was saying Janx. Training a Dog can mitigate the risk, but it will by no means eliminate the risk. I've been around dogs all my life, and although not a professional, I'm really good with dogs and most animals (my wife always calls me the Animal Whisperer). I have a very well trained dog currently, and there's still been a couple of times when he's nipped at me, I've just been fortunate enough to be quicker than him both times. I remember a friends dog when I was in high school. It was a little poodle mutt/mix, a really friendly, well trained dog that knew me quite well. Whenever I'd go over, the dog would always want to sit in my lap and be petted. However, one day while petting it, it suddenly jumped up and lunged at my face in an attempt to bite me - for no apparent reason (at least no reason I could ascertain). It didn't puncture the skin, but it left a significant scratch on my face. I never saw it coming. It wasn't showing nervousness or fear at the time (at least as far as I could tell), and wasn't tensed up prior to it's lunging (though it was tensed up then!) We never understood why it did this. Afterward and later, the dog was fine again. It would still sit in my lap and let me pet her with no problems. Dogs do show emotion, but not always. They will sometimes hide their emotions, pain, or distress as a defense mechanism (i.e.: showing such things to another dog could be dangerous in some situations). And their faces can show emotion to a certain extent, but definitely not to the same extent as Humans (they just don't have the same extent of facial muscles we do, and there's the whole fur thing as well). Many times it is possible to understand a situation well enough and see cues from the dog that can indicate an imminent reaction, but definitely not 100% percent of the time. Just because you've been 100% successful up to this point, doesn't mean that in every such situation in the future that will necessarily remain so.</blockquote>

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