Doggone Safe Mission and Mandate
Doggone Safe! Mission Statement
To promote education initiatives for the purpose of dog bite prevention and increased child safety around dogs and to provide support for dog bite victims.
Many of these originate from a Coroner's Jury Recommendations into the mauling death eight year-old Courtney Trempe in 1998 by a neighbour's dog. Download the jury recommendations
Doggone Safe! Mandate
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to provide low-cost educational materials for use in schools
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to provide low-cost educational materials for use by community health departments
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to provide educational materials to veterinarians for office display
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to provide educational materials to family physicians for office display
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to provide information and resources on raising puppies and training dogs in way
s that do not promote aggression
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to provide information and resources for parents and expectant parents with dogs
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to provide information and resources for professionals who must visit or enter the homes of people with dogs during the course of their job
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to promote the need for trauma counseling for dog bite victims and to provide victim support services
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to provide services for dog bite victims and their families
Evidence that education is important for dog bite prevention
Evidence that children do not know how to read dog body language.
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