What Really Predicts Dog Bites? With Dr. Helen Howell

You can’t “test” your way to certainty about whether a dog will bite—and provoking a dog during an assessment may tell us very little about the risk that dog presents in the real world. In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Helen Howell, a forensic behaviorist and expert witness who works on serious injury and fatality cases. We talk about what a modern dog bite risk assessment should look like when the goal is not only to assess risk, but also to identify practical ways to reduce it. Helen brin...