'Dangerous dogs' - should I report?

zaksmum

Krlyr is quite right that the dogs had the potential to cause harm by running in front of a car or knocking someone over. This would apply to any loose dog whatever it's size, even if the dog is zonked out sleeping in the sun.

But in the first post. OP said the dogs walked around him and his child. This is different to circling. The whole confrontation, as he called it, lasted sixty seconds and the owner came running and apologised.

I really would leave it at that and avoid walking past the dogs' house in future.

cheepskate_2

This is a troll.

In his original post he did not say anything about the dogs being aggressive, Then suddenly they were growling , even when the owner took them away.
For a dog to continue growling and acting aggressively when the owner has them is somewhat different to them acting aggressively when out on their own. I would expect dogs who are aggressive when with their handler to be more so without, and as another poster says would if the situation been real to attack or at least jump up on the person or bite them


People post on here to get all sorts of reactions and when queeried or it doesnt go their way, they then add in the juicy extra bits that are never mentioned in the openng posts, this is one....

If the OP feels the need to report it, then by all means do so, but maybe he should get his story right 1st time.
And as for scared the guy will come after him..................well thats just another stereotyping that goes on in these threads

Raksha

Op, do your daughter a favour and learn how to recognise a truly threatening dog, not rottie 'chat', and what to do if you feel threatened by a dog or dogs. You should not move or make eye contact...

LindaGeorge

Any dog can be dangerous it depend on the way it brought up.

David__P_3

OK, quite a broad range of 'advice' and 'opinions'. I've read them all and taken most of it on board.

Some posters do seem to have overreacted though. At no point did I say I was intending to report the animals, I simply came here to gauge the opinions of others and to see how they would have reacted under similar circumstances.

I was unsure what to do, and didn't want to do anything hastily, and in the heat of the moment. That's why i wrote the original post. How that makes me a 'troll', as one user has labelled me, i cannot imagine.

In response to a question that cropped up quite frequently - yes, i would have been equally worried regardless of the breed of dog(s). This was never meant to be an attack on the breed, or dogs in general (and, with hindsight in mind, it may have been better not to mention the breed in the original post). As has been pointed out (and as i was already well aware) and breed of dog can be 'dangerous'. Hard as some of you seem to have found it to believe, his was just me asking for some advice.

For what it is worth, I haven't reported what happened, and i don't intend to do so.

Thanks to all those of you contributed sensible points.

David.

zaksmum

Glad you have reached a decision David. I believe it's the right one.

missjadeyx

I know this issue has been resolved buts just wanted to say until recently we owned a very aggressive and dangerous rottweiler.

She didn't start out that way at first she was brilliant with everything and then she got attacked by a Jack Russell who ran underneath her and after that she would try and attack any dog on sight. So we walked her with a muzzle.

It then progressed to men she wouldn't lunge or anything but if a man tried to come near me and touched me she would go to bite them. It finally evolved to she would try to attack anyone who came in the house, and would lunge at and snarl/snap at anyone who was in reaching distance! This included children we came to the heartbreaking decision to have her put to sleep as we just could not trust her with anyone. (This was after advice from a behaviourist, our vets, dog warden and police)

I say this as I know how frightening this would have been I've been bitten by a few dogs myself (2 x labs, border collie & collie cross) I am wary around Labradors and collies until I know they're friendly however my rottweiler if she had ever escaped the house I have no doubt she would have attacked a person on sight so I don't believe those two rotties were dangerous! The owner will hopefully be more careful next time though!

wilykit

warehouse wrote: »

OP, there are a great many on here who own these dangerous dogs and always try to protect them. Report this incident and thank God that they didn't attack you and your Daughter.

"these dangerous dogs"

What an ignorant thing to say. ANY dog has the potential to be dangerous and it should not be defined by breed.

I understand this was scary for the OP and his daughter, but your comment is so ridiculous that it angers me.

I have an English Bull Terrier, and just because of his looks and the fact he is a bull breed I get dirty looks, people panicking and acting silly around us and assuming that he is used to attack.

People need to stop being so damn ignorant.

gettingready

warehouse wrote: »

OP, there are a great many on here who own these dangerous dogs and always try to protect them. Report this incident and thank God that they didn't attack you and your Daughter.

Theye would have.. attacked..

....if they were dangerous

ragecake

Most the rotties I know are soft as hell.

Now, imagine this was a mistake, I know that the OP didnt want to report them really. But imagine he had.

Because they're sometimes classed as "dangerous" those dogs who might be part of a loving family, would be taken away, and put into incredibly stressful situations (think small kennel, around strange smells) and then asses it.

All of this happens while the family tries to prove the dogs are safe, spending money on lawyers.

In most cases, the dog is put down regardless of what is found.

So yeah...

Ah well, at least they're not staffies, they can be taken away for "looking dangerous"