have described human behavior before a dog bite to the body. Some studies also
report bending over a dog (Rettinger and Reichensperger-Goertzen,
1995; Reisner et al., 2007) and gazing between human and dog
(Borchelt, 1983; Cameron, 1997) as possible causes of bites to the
human body. However, it is difficult to compare the findings of our
study with previous studies because previous work did not determine
human behavior immediately preceding a dog bite to the face
when other parts of the body were not bitten.