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So, I did read on your website, which I thought was really interesting, was there’s kind of two branches to what you do. There’s the behavioral aspect, which, of course, is working with the animals, and then there’s also the legal aspect where you go to court, and I was, like, what’s that all about?
The legal aspect of it is to define, in many cases, what is fact from fiction. Because in cases where you have the plaintiff accusing the dog of being vicious or dangerous, or have a predisposition to be aggressive, there are circumstances in which the animal may have been triggered or may have been provoked, or may have been put in a situation where there was no other choice, or somebody may have overstepped the line or misunderstood certain behavior.
In any case, my job is to translate the massive amount of verbiage regarding the legal case, plaintiff as well as defendant, and figure out exactly what is possible, what could have happened, what is the true story, and try to figure out what is the most plausible explanation of what has happened, and try to find a consistent story that doesn’t have fabrications inside of it.
So, are these legal cases where somebody says this dog bit me and I want this dog destroyed? Or is that what you’re talking about?
In some cases, you can be looking at a situation where the dog is dangerous. And so animal control will get involved, and in many cases the animal will be seized, or the owner will disappear with the animal, with the dog in most cases, or the dog is euthanized. So, there are cases where a dog is very dangerous. And sometimes if that dog is still alive by the time the case comes to my desk, I would then evaluate that dog. So, I would go put it through a few assessment contexts, see if I see what was actually described – if the dog is still alive. So, to give a more objective opinion of what the potential is of this dog or what is this dog’s natural range of behaviors. In many cases, the dog is not available, so I have to go just with the stories that have been declared by all people involved.