next door staffie ran after my mum

coolcait

starrystarry wrote: »

So your mum had just been "attacked" by a dog and your partner was driving you over there because she was in the middle of a panic attack. And in the middle of this crisis you thought...I know what I'll do...I'll start a thread on MSE.

Not...I'll talk to my mum, try to keep her calm until I get there.

Not...I'll ring the police for her.

Not...I'll ring the dog warden.

Doesn't ring true to me. If it is true, I can't help wondering how we all coped in a crisis before MSE came along.

Exactly...

Nicki

starrystarry wrote: »

So your mum had just been "attacked" by a dog and your partner was driving you over there because she was in the middle of a panic attack. And in the middle of this crisis you thought...I know what I'll do...I'll start a thread on MSE.

Not...I'll talk to my mum, try to keep her calm until I get there.

Not...I'll ring the police for her.

Not...I'll ring the dog warden.

Doesn't ring true to me. If it is true, I can't help wondering how we all coped in a crisis before MSE came along.

Why is the OP's reaction so weird?

Her mum phoned her very upset. I assume she spent some time trying to calm her on the phone. She then jumped in the car with her partner to go over and see said mum. She spent less than 30 seconds posting a very short message about it, I suspect to see if anyone was going to offer some good advice on what to do or some perspective on the situation. She may well have immediately phoned her mum after posting that message and spent the rest of the journey calming her down.

She's now working out what to do in the future. None of that sounds unreasonable and a very quick look at her profile doesn't suggest she is prone to starting troll threads or massively overrreacting about things.

Just because she has had the temerity to post a thread about a dog behaving badly doesn't mean she is lying about it or trying to cause trouble.

starrystarry

Nicki wrote: »

Why is the OP's reaction so weird?

Her mum phoned her very upset. I assume she spent some time trying to calm her on the phone. She then jumped in the car with her partner to go over and see said mum. She spent less than 30 seconds posting a very short message about it, I suspect to see if anyone was going to offer some good advice on what to do or some perspective on the situation. She may well have immediately phoned her mum after posting that message and spent the rest of the journey calming her down.

She's now working out what to do in the future. None of that sounds unreasonable and a very quick look at her profile doesn't suggest she is prone to starting troll threads or massively overrreacting about things.

Just because she has had the temerity to post a thread about a dog behaving badly doesn't mean she is lying about it or trying to cause trouble.

It is weird to me. I've been through many a crisis/trauma/family emergency in my time but I can't say that my first reaction during any of them was to start a thread on an internet forum. It's something I might do later, once the dust had settled, but in the heat of the moment it's the last thing I'd think of doing.

My comment had nothing to do with this being a thread about dogs. It just strikes me as odd.

Georgiegirl256

Nicki wrote: »

Why is the OP's reaction so weird?

Her mum phoned her very upset. I assume she spent some time trying to calm her on the phone. She then jumped in the car with her partner to go over and see said mum. She spent less than 30 seconds posting a very short message about it, I suspect to see if anyone was going to offer some good advice on what to do or some perspective on the situation. She may well have immediately phoned her mum after posting that message and spent the rest of the journey calming her down.

Exactly. I feel the OP has got an unnecessarily rough reception here. It might not be what the majority of folk would do (start a thread), but folk on here quite often can give good advice and see things from a different perspective than the OP, and that could be beneficial in helping her decide what to do, or how to help her Mum.

OP, I hope your Mum has calmed down now, panics attacks are awful.

spike241

redcard wrote: »

Obviously that's a complete contradiction.

No dog is dangerous until it attacks someone. Yours included.

Why is that a contradiction?

Would you say someone who goes to a shooting range is obviously a dangerous person who would shoot someone else?

Dogs know the difference between a toy and a person, just as we know the difference between a paper target and a person.

Rev

Woolwich_Kim wrote: »

I don't like staffies, I know how dogs are is dependent on how owner brings them up etc, but any attacks I've heard of are mostly staffies.

I would anonymously call the police to inform them of a dangerous dog but won't say too much about it biting your mums bag, as you wouldn't want to p the neighbour by grassing on them coz you live so close.

Could this be because they're status dogs? Bred by idiots to be aggressive? Look back 20 years and it will have been Rottweilers. Don't base like/dislike of an entire breed on a few incidents.


OP. I love staffs. I have two. But I would call the police and report. The owners are idiots for leaving their dog unattended.


I'm not about to spout the usual 'could have been a child blah blah'. Because it wasn't. But your mum could have been injured due to the owners idiocy.


I don't know the dog. So am not about to condemn it. There could be many reasons why it's behaved the way it did. But the owners should know better.


I'd report. At the very least ask the owners how exactly reinforcing the gate will stop when a gate can be opened. If they intend to continue to leave the dog unattended then they shouldn't have the dog.

jumpingjackd

Hmmm my daughter was bitten badly on the hand when she gave a crisp through the fence to the Akita next door, she spent a week in hospital after operations, We did report it ,nothing happened!!
I dont blame the dogs but the owners in that case and a lot of others.
Having said that we have a Jack Russell who barks and growls at everyone and everything but would not bite

AS an afterthought, Im certain after my daughters accident I would not have been posting on here at the time, took me a week to contemplate calling the police

skivenov

I'd totally agree with rev on that. Staffies arent a nasty breed, but they're highly impressionable and will do whatever they think will gain their owner's approval. If the owner wants a nasty dog, a staffie will learn to please it's owner by being one. Likewise if the owner wants a teddy bear.

piglet25

If the dog had wanted to bite your mum then no bag would have stopped it from doing so, maybe it thought there was a treat in there for it, or maybe wanted to play raggity with the bag. I have a staffy, lying asleep next to me as I type and she is as soft as fluff, but if she decided to bite me then I wouldn't be able to run off from her. My staffy is a rescue dog and whenever she sees a folded newspaper she cowers and tries to get away from it ( was clouted with them in her previous home ) so it could even have been a similar reaction from the neighbours dog. I don't think it was a genuine threat but I can understand it may have spooked your mum if shes suffers from anxiety.

jumpingjackd

My mum has seen the dog rip teddy bears and balls to shreds in seconds. Is that normal?


Again hmmm, how has she seen this, would think it might be an unusual occurrrence unless the dog wa
s particularly viscious