1. What it means to be stereotyped as dangerous Me as a dog owner

6. Using Rogers circle I can show that the public self is the image I show everyone as a dog owner. The part that people see shows this a powerful dog and her owner. The private self shows those who know me and my dog see a cuddly dog with a big bark and her friendly owner and the core self would be the personal view I have of me and my dog which is that she isn’t my dog but more like a sister and a friend as well as the view of the family as they understand the behaviour of our dog Cindy and how to interpret her behaviour. Someone would also look at the body language of the dog to perceive her emotions to guess how she will behave. Looking at a dogs gaze you can determent if she feels threatened or if she will behave aggressively. The common behaviour of an aggressive dog is head low with a steady gaze and if they feel threatened they will raise their hackles and bear their teeth. The warning if a dog will attack can be over looked due to the lack of knowledge on the breed and behaviour and also the belief that the dog hasn’t behaved aggressively before so they think the dog wont act aggressively now.

7. Cindy barking and her bearing her teeth Looking at this film you can see she is not acting aggressively however her bark still sounds deep and would scare some people if they couldn’t see Cindy’s behaviour as they cant understand the information given if they have no observation to reflect back to the sounds they hear. This picture shows Cindy bearing her teeth, the action is not aggressive but can be seen as threatening but in this example she is sniffing the air causing the understanding of the text to be altered by a frame.