Our female Golden Retriever/Black Lab mix barks like crazy when this particular mailman comes to our house. She is always in the house, but the mailman has warned us that he will sue us if the dog hurts him. We make sure she is in the house and the front door is closed.
The mailman is still freaked out whenever he hears her bark. Some people are just scared of any dog.
The mailman is still freaked out whenever he hears her bark. Some people are just scared of any dog.
He probably has 100 dogs on his route that are just like yours. Bark like crazy and looks like it wants to attack.
99 are probably, like yours, just barkers that wouldn’t hurt him at all.
1 would attack him and do serious physical damage the first chance it got.
How can he tell the difference between the 1 and the 99? He can’t. So his options are to treat all barking dogs as potential biters (and avoid getting bitten by the 1) or treat all dogs as non-biters (and gurantee he will get bitten by the 1).