{"id":165325,"date":"2026-02-05T16:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/165325\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:32:07","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-with-proper-intervention-dog-aggression-doesnt-always-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/165325\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: With proper intervention, dog aggression doesn\u2019t \u2018always\u2019 escalate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Feb. 5, 2026 8 AM PT  <\/p>\n<p>To the editor: There are very few occurrences in life that are \u201calways\u201d true.<\/p>\n<p>While the Los Angeles Times hasn\u2019t labeled me a dog bite \u201cexpert\u201d as it did with Ron Berman, my decades-long relationship with dogs leads me to dispute his contention that dog \u201caggression always escalates\u201d (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-01-30\/shelter-said-pit-bull-was-sweet-he-mauled-his-new-owner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cL.A. shelter didn\u2019t disclose a dog\u2019s bite history. That cost the city $3.25 million,\u201d<\/a> Jan. 30).<\/p>\n<p>Personal experience has shown me that with training, professional intervention, patience, love and possibly medication, aggressive dog behavior can be arrested and essentially conquered, at least in some instances.<\/p>\n<p>Exaggeration never leads to better outcomes. Precision, however, often does.<\/p>\n<p>Ray McKown, Torrance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 5, 2026 8 AM PT To the editor: There are very few occurrences in life that are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[79818,79816,79817,79813,79812,2072,79819,48,52,51,1838,47,50,49,63,4284,5444,55286,79815,79814,1102],"class_list":["post-165325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-aggressive-dog-behavior","tag-contention","tag-decades-long-relationship","tag-dog-aggression","tag-dog-bite","tag-editor","tag-exaggeration","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-love","tag-medication","tag-patience","tag-professional-intervention","tag-proper-intervention","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}