Stop BSL! It's harmful to dogs in England! Support to stop BSL and to learn more at This website: http://stopbsl.com/bsloverview/ or go to google and type BSL! They already put down a pitbull who has done nothing to a random family just because he looked dangerous!
Here in Australia there have been multiple case's where a dog, usually Pitbull, Mastiff or Rottweiler has reacted instinctively to a Human interacting with it and the results have been quite bad and in a few cases lethal.
It was only a few months ago a Bull Mastiff which was supposedly "a family dog and would never hurt a fly" from the owner's point of view unleashed all its might on a 5 year old girl when the owner left it outside without a leash in the front yard.
The dog escaped the yard and ended up in a neighbours front yard and mauled the 5 year old to death as her and her parent's tried to pull her away from the canine.
You may think these dog's are just like any other, they aren't.
Growing up on a farm where day to day I dealt with many breeds of dog's none have been anywhere nearly aggressive and territorial as the three I spoke of earlier.
A lot of other breeds are territorial but very few I have seen have the same ferocity and aggressiveness that they do.
Here in Australia there have been multiple case's where a dog, usually Pitbull, Mastiff or Rottweiler has reacted instinctively to a Human interacting with it and the results have been quite bad and in a few cases lethal.
It was only a few months ago a Bull Mastiff which was supposedly "a family dog and would never hurt a fly" from the owner's point of view unleashed all its might on a 5 year old girl when the owner left it outside without a leash in the front yard.
The dog escaped the yard and ended up in a neighbours front yard and mauled the 5 year old to death as her and her parent's tried to pull her away from the canine.
You may think these dog's are just like any other, they aren't.
Growing up on a farm where day to day I dealt with many breeds of dog's none have been anywhere nearly aggressive and territorial as the three I spoke of earlier.
A lot of other breeds are territorial but very few I have seen have the same ferocity and aggressiveness that they do.
Poor breeding, frustration, conditioning. Don't rule out medical reasons either. What was the dog's lifestyle like? Where did it spend most of it's time? I could get any breed of dog to behave in such a manner given the right conditioning. Also unfortunately for many dogs, people always say "They've never [displayed any aggressive behaviors] or [done that before] which leads to the misconception that it was indeed "out of nowhere." Which seems to be the most probable case here.
Not directly related: A dog very, very rarely bites or attacks out of nowhere, and when they do, and I'm talking no warning signals or distance increasing behaviors at all, it is because they have been conditioned, usually inadvertently, to not display these signals by their owners trying to correct the aggressive behavior.
Related: I recommend this, it's a good read if you don't mind near two-hundred pages of PDF. It's called The Pitbull Placebo. The author discusses dog bite reporting from the 1880's to now. Dogs in popular media, and the pattern of demonizing breeds, over and over again (bloodhounds, newfies, dobies, gsd, st bernards, sled dogs, rotts, pits...) One of the points she makes is how when caught (historically) we (humans) feign ignorance and put all the blame on the dog or the breed for our own evil doings.
Stop BSL! It's harmful to dogs in England! Support to stop BSL and to learn more at This website: http://stopbsl.com/bsloverview/ or go to google and type BSL! They already put down a pitbull who has done nothing to a random family just because he looked dangerous!
Too bad we have laws like that here, too.
Heres a thought! If the dog looks mean stay the **** away from it!
If the dog actually become a threat to your safety, then ask for something to be done about it.
Here in Australia there have been multiple case's where a dog, usually Pitbull, Mastiff or Rottweiler has reacted instinctively to a Human interacting with it and the results have been quite bad and in a few cases lethal.
It was only a few months ago a Bull Mastiff which was supposedly "a family dog and would never hurt a fly" from the owner's point of view unleashed all its might on a 5 year old girl when the owner left it outside without a leash in the front yard.
The dog escaped the yard and ended up in a neighbours front yard and mauled the 5 year old to death as her and her parent's tried to pull her away from the canine.
You may think these dog's are just like any other, they aren't.
Growing up on a farm where day to day I dealt with many breeds of dog's none have been anywhere nearly aggressive and territorial as the three I spoke of earlier.
A lot of other breeds are territorial but very few I have seen have the same ferocity and aggressiveness that they do.
I want to slap you in the face....with a brick.
Poor breeding, frustration, conditioning. Don't rule out medical reasons either. What was the dog's lifestyle like? Where did it spend most of it's time? I could get any breed of dog to behave in such a manner given the right conditioning. Also unfortunately for many dogs, people always say "They've never [displayed any aggressive behaviors] or [done that before] which leads to the misconception that it was indeed "out of nowhere." Which seems to be the most probable case here.
Not directly related: A dog very, very rarely bites or attacks out of nowhere, and when they do, and I'm talking no warning signals or distance increasing behaviors at all, it is because they have been conditioned, usually inadvertently, to not display these signals by their owners trying to correct the aggressive behavior.
Related: I recommend this, it's a good read if you don't mind near two-hundred pages of PDF. It's called The Pitbull Placebo. The author discusses dog bite reporting from the 1880's to now. Dogs in popular media, and the pattern of demonizing breeds, over and over again (bloodhounds, newfies, dobies, gsd, st bernards, sled dogs, rotts, pits...) One of the points she makes is how when caught (historically) we (humans) feign ignorance and put all the blame on the dog or the breed for our own evil doings.
Edit: I forgot the link, it's in now.
It doesn't matter whether I support or object to the subject at hand, if your argument is stupid I am against you.