AGAIN! Something must be done

@DysonSphere those two dogs combined are more than double my body weight🥴😱
Is she's a bit simple and can't think beyond large dog = gentle giant?

Or she had a fantasy of herself as a hero saving an endangered species?

You are exactly right. This man put dogs -unwanted problematic dogs- above his own children, his own flesh and blood.
He rescued dogs to gratify his own ego, pretending he was a hero saving an endangered species.
Maybe that's unfair, maybe some people fall hopelessly and unconditionally in love with dogs; any and all dogs 🤷🏼‍♀️
Maybe it's a compulsion like gambling?

Something about that "died doing what he loved" really rubbed me the wrong way too. Nobody loves being torn to shreds do they.

And yes, he was an irresponsible parent. Seems getting accolades for helping dogs was more important than his human children.

Yeah I picked up on that 'Died doing what he loves' bit.

I just couldn't even get my head around it as I couldn't see the positive.

@LooneyLiberalSpaceWaster Yes my neighbours have a lovely little staffie and he's quite small. About a quarter of the size of some of those XL bullies by my estimation.

He leaves behind five sons - four teenagers and a 10-year-old.
Their mother Eileen died from cancer in February 2013 aged 46.

How awful, I’m sorry but he failed his kids. They already had lost their mother and he chose to do a job like that?

The article says he died “doing what he loves” but I wonder if his children will see it that way when they become adults having become orphaned in childhood due to him “doing what he loved” 🙄

I mean it’s one thing doing a risky job like firefighting and saving actually people from fires but to do a risky job like that which serves no good purpose to society was a great disservice to the world and to his children. I hope he at least had the foresight to take out life insurance.

Yeah I remember thinking the same thing when I read this story, it was up near Dundee or something. This man’s actions had he lived could sadly have contributed indirectly to a lot more deaths at the hands of dangerous dogs.
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They may think exactly like this, but it didn't work out for the lady who lost her hand after 'saving' two XL bullies after the ban in England.
She almost lost a hand:

She said she rescued the two dogs, Storm and Cee, in January shortly after a ban was imposed on the breed in England and Wales

She told how she needed surgery to reattach her hand after the horrific attack at her flat in Edinburgh last month.

The devastated woman wrote on social media: "Imagine having over 100kg ripping you apart, thinking I'm going to die."

The animal lover said she adopted the Bullys, one weighing 57kg and the other 48kg, earlier this year ahead of tough controls on the breed coming into force following a series of killings and maulings

^www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/12836966/xl-bully-dog-attack-hand-chewed-leith-edinburgh/^

It is over-confidence.

Absolutely. Organisations like SOSD are as despicable and thick as any owner of any banned breed. And I’m sorry but this man was just as bad. So his job was to “rehab” abused dogs and get them into homes? Basically passing on the problem of potentially dangerous animals.

The mindset of people like this is, I think in part, driven by a peculiar sort of ego. “I can succeed where others failed. I know better than anyone else. I have a gift. I can make the unhomeable, rehomeable”.

Escothesia your relatives large dog can not be a English staff if its a large dog.
Pure bred Staffs are only just about a medium dog. The ideal standard is up to 16in tall, and weighing no more than 17kg

The large long legged, more athletic looking dogs that many people are now referring to as staff, or buying from unregistered breeders more than likely have pit bull in their heritage. There is a fair number of them, many conform to pit bull type, some get taken away under the BSL.

Unfortunately the same idiots who now have XLs, are the same idiots that had Pit bulls, and the same idiot breeders were 20 years ago crossing staffs with pit bulls.

You know what they say when you make assumptions? I’ve got a lovely neighbour with an XL bully. The dog is muzzled, walked and seems to have a good life. She is a responsible dog owner. However, would I allow children or small dog into her house? Not a chance. I trust the neighbour but these dogs are unpredictable.

Where I lived before, it was an estate and unfortunately, there were a few “owners” who had XLs. One dog was often in the small front garden, repeatedly throwing itself against the fence. It was terrifying as an adult. I’d never walk my family past there!

I do wonder about the ego of someone who genuinely thinks ‘you are all wrong because you are manipulated by the media and I am built different and can see through it all

Combination of super-large ego with a good dollop of stupid. Dangerous combo.

I do wonder about the ego of someone who genuinely thinks ‘you are all wrong because you are manipulated by the media and I am built different and can see through it all. Everyone is wrong and I am right because I can see what you can’t’

I also judge someone who starts calling people racists and xenophobic, because of their opinions on XL bullies.

As the daughter of immigrants (on both parents sides) and someone who is mixed race, I find it laughable. And have to question the intelligence of someone who tries to connect the two.

i don’t know why they called you mad either. Did you ever find out? I cba to rtft

Your relatives large dog won’t be a Staffie. They are roughly the same height as a cocker spaniel according to the breed standard so a medium sized dog. If you see them on something like Crufts you will be surprised at how small they are.

I also think the pts rate of these dogs will speed up.After all their owners are not the most financially astute shall we say and might pay many thousands for one of these dogs but begrudge paying out vet fees.
There was a big movement to threaten vets by the breed apologists on social media when the ban first came in, but I can see more dogs being just quietly taken to the vet for pts without fanfare.

Honestly I have seen the racist one used many times on social media by these breed apologists.

Completely agree. God knows there are enough dogs around - if people want a dog as a substitute human, get one of the more docile breeds.

KK's frozen sperm is being used for artificial insemination. The dogs themselves aren't being let into the country.

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I’m not sure what everyone saying that they all need to be culled immediately are expecting? We’re not going to see the effects of the ban overnight until the breed starts to die out - which shouldn’t take too long as they’re always such unwell dogs anyway (terrible joints so in chronic pain a lot of them which will not be helping their temperament).

Lol at the 'You're racist' one. I would have said that was far out the gate, but we literally had an accusation of racism and anti-immigrant on the thread😂😂

Interesting stats. Not sure if it’s been mentioned but apparently her staffy joined in and attacked her too after the XL bully did. It’s all very sad.

I think we need better rules on dogs in the UK irrespective of breed. For example in Germany I think it is - they have rules about the length of your dog lead in busy areas ie. So you don’t get people using retractable leads everywhere. And certain carriages in trains are dogs friendly other carriages are dog free. And some countries impose muzzles more widely.

I was on a UK train recently where a dog was running up and down the aisle and no one seemed to care. This looked like quite a small relatively harmless dog but It bothered me that you can’t escape a potentially very strong and unpredictable animal in a confined space like that which you can’t just easily leave. What if it were a more powerful breed of dog in that train?

Oh dear another breed apologist.
No dear don’t bother with the “you’re all just being brainwashed by the Newspapers”.
Sadly dog attacks by this type of dog are all over social media of humans and other pets.They aren’t being invented it is really happening, but of course as a breed apologist you will just come out with some pitbull bingo excuse

Holy shit I thought the dog was just taken to his kennels by the police.I didn’t know Saved our Seized dogs had a hand in it.
That despicable organisation put fundraisers out where there is an incident so the dog can once again be free to attack again.
They should be sued for every dog they get back out in the population again that is attacking.

That reminds me of the evil dog thing off the ghost busters. That terrified me as a kid lol