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This woman, like so many who have limited experience with animals, thinks of animals as little people. Unfortunately for her, they aren’t. What she did was perceived by the dog as an attempted dominance display, and the dog wasn’t about to become a beta male (or female)to someone outside his or her pack (where, presumably, the owner is the alpha). People who know dogs understand that what she did was very dangerous. When you consider that the dog was a Dogo Argentino, she is very lucky that the injury wasn’t far worse.