Dog handler visit

Today Virgina the dog handler came to visit our school with her dog Amber. We learnt how to keep ourselves safe around dogs. 

Here are some of the tips we learnt:

When meeting a new dog it is important to ask the owner if we can pat their dog first, than we need to let the dog sniff us before we pat it. We also know to pat a dog on the chin and chest because "chin and chest is best!". Talking to dogs in a calm voice is also important as they can get scared if we use a high pitch voice. 

"When a dogs on its own we leave it alone" - when we see dogs without an owner in the street or tied up outside a shop we will remember to leave it alone. 

If a dog comes up to us we know to stand nice and still while it sniffs us. If we get knocked over by a dog we will turn our bodies into a turtle. 

We practised the turtle position with Virgina.

"A dogs not a toy, so do not tease and annoy". We know not to tease dogs or annoy because we know how it feels when we are annoyed or teased. Dogs also have very sharp teeth and they might use their teeth to tell us to stop if they get annoyed with us. 

Amber has very big teeth!

See if you can tell someone at home what you remember about keeping yourself safe around dogs!