@Herja
They looked like bloody big dogs in the news pictures. Poor, poor woman. What an horrific, terrifying death. In her own bloody garden.
Dogs have the capacity to be incredibly dangerous. It blows my mind that any old fucker can just buy one. People always talk about the scary looking breeds, but (I think) it's actually Labradors that have the highest number of attacks in the UK. All dogs can be dangerous, even the family ones. My first teenage boyfriend had heavy facial scaring from a terrier attack as a toddler.
I love dogs. Always had them growing up. I don't have one, because I don't have appropriate time to devote to one. I like dogs that are perfectly trained (working dogs, or trained to that degree) and I can't facilitate that, so I have a cat instead. I completely agree that there should be more regulation.
Labradors are one of the most popular breeds. There are more of them than other dogs, so the volume of bites is going to be higher just because of how many of them there are.
That said, Labrador attacks are mostly nips, not fatal. They are usually defending, not attacking.
Certain types of dogs like pit bulls, English bull terriers are attack dogs, they are vicious and get lockjaw so attacks from them are deadly.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I've never heard of a fatal Labrador attack. That said, they still need to be supervised around children, on the lead in public and not loose in the garden if you want anything delivered.
There is a man who walks two unmuzzled pit bulls in my local park. I've reported this to the police several times and he's still there, walking two unmuzzled, potentially killer dogs, around children and other dogs.