That was what I was saying saint yes.
I like dogs, I don't like the way a lot of people keep dogs.
I'm not keen on the "oh of course I can't provide properly for my dogs now I have kids" thing because whilst I get that things change, and often unexpectedly, I doubt many people would put their children on the back burner in order to prefer a new dog. There is an inherent admittance that the dog is second class, when added to trying to fit the dog in to a difficult situation/life (modern urban lifestyle) which needs a high level of maintenance and responsibility, purely because a human wants to own an animal it is quite sad and quite dangerous and yes, fair enough the right thing to do is not necessarily to give the dog to a kennel (although a better home maybe?) if you can't look after it well after a baby I just think the worst thing to do is to just pretend this is not a problem because you have an attitude of "I love my dog, I could look after it better before I had the kids"
I do not think this website will encourage people who are not spending enough time or energy on their dogs to notice their dogs are stressed, purely because the problem is often that they don't recognise the dog's needs in the first place, they don't want to admit their very loved dog is being put at risk by their behaviour and their choices and a lot of the time people nowadays don't spend enough or the right kind of time with their dogs and I worry what it does is encourage those people, who i think are the biggest risk, to ignore the very obvious problems with the environment they are providing and, to some extent if they have an attitude of "i am a good dog owner", to ignore their own dog because "society should teach children to recognise when a dog is stressed so they don't get bitten" and "argh I hate how little kids don't know how to pet my dog"
Ignoring the very obvious contributing factor of this family owning those large dogs in their family home with very young children AND them not caring for them adequately whilst they are setting up some form of action to prevent what happened to their child happening to others, sends quite a big message that owners don't have to take responsibility for the environment the dog is kept in I feel.