rottweiler attack - police useless........

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VfM4meplse wrote: »

A similar incident happened on Southend seafront just last week, I understand the child - who was saved by their grandmother -required surgery. The owner just ran off but thankfully was identified.

I am in complete agreement, dog bites are routinely treated with antibiotics (although human bites are known to be worse).

I will never understand the attraction of rottweilers. They are just nasty and dangerous, and for some reason attract irresponsible owners.

we have had two rottweilers in the past who have been absolutley great family dogs, never ever had a problem with them, yet i have been bitten by 3 german shepards over the yrs even so i own one of those breeds now.

we are definatley not irresponsible owners thankyou very much. we also have brought them up with our own children. they were not allowed unsupervised play with the children (ours or anyone elses) they were well socialised and well brought up,

i really do not think you should tar all breeds the same, our dogs are dearly missed and we wished they were still with us every day



back tot he op i def would make another report to the police and get a crime ref number to follow up with,

i hope the little girl is ok

gregg1

pulliptears wrote: »

It was the owner who failed to properly restrain or train the dog. The dog knows no better. But surely even you dont need that explaining?


Doesn't matter, the dog should be put down - it is possible/probable it could do so again - surely even you dont need that explaining.

pulliptears

gregg1 wrote: »

pulliptears wrote: »

It was the owner who failed to properly restrain or train the dog. The dog knows no better. But surely even you dont need that explaining?


Doesn't matter, the dog should be put down - it is possible/probable it could do so again - surely even you dont need that explaining.

You seem to be reading things that are not there. I never stated that the dog shouldn't be destroyed, merely that the blame lies not with it but with the owner - and no, I didn't need that explaining but once again, YOU did

gregg1

LisaB85 wrote: »

This breed specific legislation annoys me so much! It is very narrow minded to think all rotties are bad dogs, it is the media who portray them as bad dogs and those who are irresponsible owners.

The media isn't interested in the Yorkshire terrier who bit a child, rotties are protective dogs so maybe all the screaming made him feel threatened?

Any dog can bite, and I'm afraid in a world where puppy farms and backyard breeding are big business there are going to be more and more dogs with bad parenting and ending up with even worse owners.

http://rottweilerownerstrust.co.uk/pat-dogs.php

I used to own a Dobermann and she was soft as !!!!.

makes me laugh when people insist on referring to these dogs as "rotties" . Is it supposed to make them appear less intimidating?

pulliptears

gregg1 wrote: »

makes me laugh when people insist on referring to these dogs as "rotties" as if they were some tiny little bundle of fur!

Ah, I didn't realise shortening names was a practice that should be related to the size of the dog, must tell my 'Doby' owning friend and my GSD owning friend. Goodness help the one that owns the Staffy!
Still, the one with the teacup Yorkie will be happy eh?

Lip_Stick

I thought that the fact the dog had got out and attacked something, was shown that the owners were not in control of a dangerous animal. Shouldn't the owners have to do something to prove that such an incident wouldn't happen again?

Azari

gregg1 wrote: »

makes me laugh when people insist on referring to these dogs as "rotties" . Is it supposed to make them appear less intimidating?

No, it's just meant to make people laugh.

2sides2everystory

Well one thing it does for me when I read the term "rottie" is to confirm my view that many owners are as soft as !!!! and that there are very few people I would trust to train and control a large breed of dog in the UK thesedays.

Anyone that cannot discuss the problem using the correct term for the dog and instead uses a term of endearment clearly doesn't take the problem anywhere near seriously enough.

mikey72

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

If there was a proven vicious, unrestrained dog in the garden next door, and it could easily get to your kids, what would you do?
You can't possibly watch them every single moment that they are outside.

I'd have killed it while it was still in my garden, if it was biting one of my kids. Not out of revenge, just to eliminate the risk.
I wouldn't have left it standing in case it decided to go back for her again, or bite me picking her up.

z1985m

any dog can bite, but big dogs like rotties and other strong dogs can rip a small child apart.

ofcourse it's how you train them, but a strong, big jawed dog still has that potential to kill no matter how well trained it is.