Dogs are more likely to bite THESE people?

ever let a dog feel your fear!

This reminder is often heard by dog ​​owners - but unfortunately it is true. As a British study found, anxious people are bitten excessively often. And especially men  ...

A research team around Dr. Carri Westgarth from the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at the University of Liverpool rated 700 subjects for their emotional stability - on a scale of 1 to 7. They were then asked if they had ever been bitten by a dog.

The result: The more unstable the humans themselves were, the more likely it was that they had been attacked by a dog before. With every point more on the emotional stability scale, however, the risk for a dog bite dropped by 23 percent.

The researchers have succeeded in proving that a person's personality has an influence on the behavior of dogs. 

The investigation was preceded by a published statistic that in the last five years in Britain there were 14,500 dog attacks on postmen. That's seven attacks a day!

The figures for Germany are even more frightening: There are 11 million dogs in Germany,  40,000 dog bites are treated annually in German hospitals and 12 patients die each year as a result of a dog attack.

Beware, men!

The study, which was published in the journal " Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health ", yielded another result, which is likely to make the world of men tremble. Because according to Westgarth many more men are bitten than women - and that, although the tested men classified themselves very high on the stability scale.

One reason could be: These  men overestimate themselves and are actually much more anxious . However, since the clever animals can smell the scaredy cat in the man, they bite.

Another reason could be that dogs react not only to anxious people, but also to men in general. Reason unknown.

Dog approaching? This is how you behave properly

► Keep walking slowly, never run away hectically
► Hang your arms, breathe calmly
► Ignore, do not take any eye contact
► If the dog comes to you, let him sniff your hand
► If you pet him: Never with the hand from above! Better: side or bottom, caressing the chin or cheek

Incidentally, more than every second dog bite comes from a foreign dog and not from the family, the study found.