[gemy]

The woman is in the wrong! And yes accidents happen, but heck with a known dog aggressive dog, you just can not be too carefull, at competitions.

She is lucky in one sense that the owner of the injured dog, doesn t lodge a complaint with the authorities.

And in that circumstance given the level of the damage done, the dog should be barred from competition. And in my opinion all agility dogs should have CDX or better before competing in higher level agility trials - at least CD to begin with. As puppies fine, they can practise agility in controlled lesson environment but hey at busy competitions they better know their commands.

And yes STOP command or a similar one, should be trained into each and every dog! Starting from when they are an eight week old puppy!