Which breed of dog would you classify as dangerous?

dizziblonde

Just ignore Vax - everyone else does.

As for the "all dogs have 42 teeth" - at the last audit I think one of my dogs was rocking about 6 (from a life prior to me getting her - she's a retired grey)! She might lick you to death given sufficient time - she's been working on licking the sofa into submission for a year now.

Cinny91

To me? It is down to the owners. Nurture over nature, 100%

People who automatically judge a dog because of their breed just baffle me. It's like Lennox, the family dog that was seized in Ireland because of his apparent breed. Breaks my heart.

Oliver14 wrote: »

Another thing I have observed recently is a glut of people buying Sled dogs such as Malamutes and Husky's and being unable to train them properly and give them enough exercise. There are a couple of people I see around frequently at the monment being taken for a walk by their Malamutes,

I was going to mention this. I have a 5 month old Husky x Akita, he's my world and a total sweetheart but it's raising such a strong puppy is by no means an easy job. Problem is, when we're out and about people just see this adorable, giant, well behaved "imma roll onto my back, and you give my belly a tickle, kay?" puppy. Not all the work that goes into him daily.

Cyril

I think dogs are a product of how they are raised.

I have two Bullmastiffs who are the most gentle souls and yet my mum had a chihuahua who would take your arm off if given a chance.

Small man syndrome probably.

I don' think we should do anything to eradicate certain dogs I think we should eradicate chavs / ferals who train them as weapons because they have so little contribution to society they have to have powerful dogs to ' big' themselves some respect.

Polmop

We have a lurcher and she has broken my cheekbone and 2 of my toes - BUT
The cheekbone was went i bent down to calm her as she was getting excited and she jumped up and the top of her head collided with my cheek.
And the other was when she jumped out of the window and i ran outside in my slippers to stop her running off and kicked a brick.
Both my fault lol

I do thinks lurchers to people are one of the calmest dogs

big5

Here's a news story about a dog attack that happened recently - Grandmother attacked by 5 dogs

Of course, the national media hasn't jumped all over it yet because it's not about staffies, or rotties, or whatever breed they want to demonise this week.

DontDropTheQuaffle

Thanks everybody for their responses - you're all being a great help
Oh, and that article in the post above me by big5, thanks a lot! That's the kind of article I'm looking for for my project as well and I've found a few but I hadn't come across that one yet so thanks again

BJV

I bought the wrong cat food and my cats will not eat it. So we decided to take it with a few other bits to our local RSPCA.

We always say hi to the cats and the bunnies but since our 16 year old lab died earlier this year we have not been to see the dogs.

I was so upset. There where so many un wanted and un loved little things. Yes they where mostly breads known for more aggressive traits but there seemed to be a common thread. When you go past each kennel there is a little story bits of info about each dog and the vast proportion where anti social in one form or another.

This is not the dogs fault, it is ours.

I honestly believe that no dog is born aggressive or anti social instead it is the owners that make them this way. Any dog from a small lap dog to a great dane can harm. They are after all still only semi domesticated.

That said when I was little my parents had doberman's and still have pictures of our dogs lying down while I poked them in the eyes and pulled their tails all without a blink from the two.

Rotties, Staffs, Bull terriers, Doberman' s they are not aggressive we are and the way we train and socialise and look after them.

undaunted

Individual dogs may be dangerous for whatever reason - nature, nurture, illness / injury, fear etc but I don't believe you can class any entire breed as being dangerous.

skipsmum

dizziblonde wrote: »

I think the problem with JRTs is the type of owner they tend to attract. Round here it tends to be dotty old ladies who think they're their babies and because they're so small, the need to train them isn't as strong (in their mind) as if they had a whacking great big dog. The JRT is never going to pull them down the road if not trained to walk on a lead properly, or at the very least things like anti-pull harnesses/headcollars used, and if it starts acting up and going at other dogs - it's pickupable... so you end up with this tiny tornado of terrier bowling along (invariably on the end of an unlocked flexi-lead or off-lead totally), with the terrier big dog in small package attitude - and you end up with a canine pain in the rear who thinks it's Rambo.

I know a couple of beautifully trained JRTs whose owners really do channel their intelligence and abilities to good use - but the number of tornado JRTs with an attitude I know is nuts.

I think if you have a bigger dog (and a braincell) you become so concious of the need NOT to upset people that you DO put in the time and effort to train them so much better and manage their behaviour - there just isn't the leeway to pick them up and carry them away if you've got a fair few kilos of something German Shepherd (NOT picked for any breed example - just it being the size and part of the cross one of my dogs is) or Greyhound sized.


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I absolutely agree with this. We've always had rescue German Shepherds, and knowing how much damage they could inflict they have been well trained. However for the last 7 years we have had a rescue Patterdale Terrier. She is completely untrainable and has "issues" which we didn't help at first by spoiling her becasue she was small and cute.
She now does dog lessons and agility, but fails miserably at everything other than terrier racing. She is a regular joke at the park where the other dog walkers hear us coming 5 minutes away.
She hasn't bitten anyone but thats more because we have management strategies than anything.

BTW, all my dogs have been wary of black dogs and black men that they don't know. One of my dogs had a complete hatred of turbans, awkward living in a road with a guru nanek temple.

cathwood

I have worked with a lot of RSPCA dogs and rescued various large breed dogs at various times. I found that these dogs were either balanced dogs or unbalanced dogs. One of the most unbalanced dogs i ever met was a Border Collie. He would cuddle you one moment and rip your throat out the next.

[FONT=&quot]Its not fair to say which are the most aggressive dogs, but as a majority - the type of people that buy a Pit bull (in America or a Staffie in the UK) for example; buy these breeds to make a statement. Not all off these people, but a majority, do come from poorer upbringing. With all things combined, we perceive the dog to be dangerous, when in reality its the people who are dangerous, not the dog. With a powerful breed comes responsibility and while there is very little that will be done to the owners, dogs like Sattfies, Pitbulls, etc.. and such will always be seen in a bad way.[/FONT]