AGAIN! Something must be done

The XL Bully dogs are just way more likely to kill someone than an Alsation. In the last 40 years, there have been 5 fatal dog attacks involving Alsatians, while there have been 5 fatal attacks involving Bullies in the last year.

I have a Perro de Presa Canario. My 9yr old nephew comes after school a couple of evenings a week, he has two friends from the next street that call for him. On the evenings his friends know he won't be here they sometimes call and ask to see my dog! I do wonder what they've told their parents - I wouldn't let my children go to a house with an unknown to me very large breed dog..

Absolutely disgusting

Pet ownership doesn't form part of the functional assessment or descriptors for any benefit. If an assessor asks, then they were probably making conversation. Disabled people can have pets like anyone else, and being disabled doesn't mean they must neglect them.

There was what looked like an XL bully in the main shopping centre of a city near me today and it was unmuzzled. It was jumping all over the place despite being on a lead. The young boy holding it looked so smug that people were giving him a wide berth .

I was on my way out and had visitors from abroad with me and couldn’t see staff around but I’ll be writing to the shopping centre tomorrow reporting what I seen.

This is partly why allowing dogs in shopping malls isn’t a good idea you'll always get the idiots that bring entirely unsuitable out of control ones. I assume it was over stimulated With all the bright lights, smells and people.

I remember the time when it was rotties and alsatians but it never seemed to be as relentless as this. Maybe it wasn't reported as much, maybe I missed stuff as I was younger but every week there's yet another attack

I've told my older kids if they ever go round someone's house and they see they have a large dog, they leave no questions asked.

And then there’s this attack caught on camera.Dog belonged to neighbour.Unbelievably the dog is still with the owner and the person attacked is now trying to move house.

And another one.All again in a very short space of time.You don’t often get to hear of other pets that are killed in the papers,but the amount of other pets that are being killed seems to be increasing.

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It wouldn’t be so bad if it was just attacking their owners.The number of innocent people and other pets attacked is appalling .

The Purge: Attack of The Killer Canines 😬

It seems like it.I think I read related to owner.

Barely a week goes by without someone being killed or seriously injured by a pitbull type dog.
The sky news report on the Aberavan case says that police were called at 7:00 a.m.
This suggests to me that the man was attacked by his own dog and in his own home?

This is like some dystopian novel, animals start turning on humans and we're too soft and dysfunctional as a society to do anything about it! Next dogs will start keeping humans on farms for consumption.

https://news.sky.com/story/man-airlifted-to-hospital-with-serious-injuries-after-incident-involving-dog-13154267

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You have a good point there,

Those children are entirely irrelevant to the thread.

Where their parents were, is irrelevant.

Wether the children were taught morals is irrelevant to this conversation. You can’t teach dogs morals.

being responsible applies to everyone. There’s a societal expectation that we are all responsible members of society. Some people ignore it. And when people get harmed because someone is irresponsible, we weak to impose consequences to protect people from getting harmed in the future.

Logic is flawed @dawngreen. Go back to Burger killers, both came from broken homes and had brutal childhoods. But once their time was done Thompson is now living in society and keeping a low profile, Venables had his parole denied last year as he is still dangerous and a threat to children. Probably always will be as that is in his nature. This is key - it is in the nature of a collie to herd, golden's retrieve, shepherds & poodles, which were once a highly vicious hunting dog guard and protect etc.

But at the base of all dogs is a hunting instinct which leads to surprise attacks - think of the seal on the Thames mauled by a random mixed breed dog (owned by a QC!) which took 4 people to get the dog off. The constant attacks on swans, other dogs and pets and farming livestock - they all count but are not generally recognised or reported as they are not people but the hunting behaviour is the same.

My point about those 2 children Is just about teaching and parents being in control same way owners of dogs , If the parents of those children were with them it wouldn't have happened, they would have stopped those children from doing what they did and I don't think they could possibly have taught those children morals or those children wouldn't have done what they did , basically Teaching and training are about Being Responsible!!! Quite aware dogs and children are not literally same. Being Responsible applies to both dog owners, and parents.

And how is it relevant that some people commit crime?

It’s not. Because that’s not what we are talking about.

Dogs are not people.

Dog owners are the ones to teach their dogs the right way to handle every day things. And the parents teach their children the right way to handle every day things. So what part of that is hard for you to understand? The methods of teaching are different because ofc dogs are not the same as kids. I am not reading all the posts again, but some one mentioned kids which made me post. You can get bad owners , and bad parents. I just see a repeat of banning breeds until the next breed bites, and ppl still have these breeds, and back streets are happy to sell them.

I am not so sure. That poster has brought up the kids multiple times and also discussed these dogs in those posts.

I strongly suspect that the poster you are quoting has posted on the wrong thread.

What's this about 12 year olds killing somebody? :-S