Out of control dogs/dog attacks

[Oranges038]

I agree and I wouldn’t even apportion it to blame: a child is a child and children mostly learn through mistakes. A dog is a dog and even the best behaved can have a moment of distress or confusion. There are countless stories and vids of the most dangerously labelled dogs truly appearing to be the absolute guardian of children, seeing them as family and members of the pack - you may have seen that rather famous one with the 4 or 5 pit bulls with the little girl in America? They chaperone her everywhere and it looks awesome, but wow, on the other hand, the element of risk to that is crazy.

Unsupervised, it would just be negligent. I’ve known many households with dangerous dogs being in and around the kids in the home, thankfully without incident, but I wonder if the dogs are left unattended with the children, as that’s another aspect entirely.

I saw a video before of a 4 or 5 year old in feeding 6 pitbulls, where they sit and wait for her to tell them to eat. Could be the same one maybe.

In terms of them being pack animals, that's got me wondering how many of these xl attacks are committed by male dogs. As part of a pack they sort themselves out, I leave mine out with a dog minder when we go away and she just lets them all run free, all kinds of dogs. Doesn't take them log to sort out the pecking order and the dogs learn fairly quickly which ones they can and can't fcuk with. Most of the time all it takes is one warning growl.

So it maybe some of these seemingly unprovoked outbursts are them trying to assert some level of dominance and it's something that was brewing for a while, which hadn't been identified or resolved by the owners.

 

[stevoc]

I think that's cruel too, depriving an animal of an essential part of their anatomy just so humans can please them.

This will probably sound harsh but since humans stopped partaking in blood sports (legally) they don't really have a use, which is the case for most dogs in the modern age but most other dogs are not equivalent to a dangerous weapon. It would be best to let the breed die out naturally via stopping them being bred. Ofocurse this is difficult due to all the backyard breeders and it would take every country in the world to enforce it.

Via castration and spaying?

I'm being facetious I actually agree they should all be neutered as opposed to destroyed if they haven't been a danger to people.

 

[2mufc0]

Via castration and spaying?

I'm being facetious I actually agree they should all be neutered as opposed to destroyed if they haven't been a danger to people.

it's a fair point to be honest.

But it goes back to keeping animals for human gratification, guess we can't have it both ways.

I agree with your solution too.

 

[MiceOnMeth]

They're so quick to ban any drug that could give you a good time but a lethal weapon on 4 legs is somehow too difficult of a thing to remove from society

 

[stevoc]

it's a fair point to be honest.

But it goes back to keeping animals for human gratification, guess we can't have it both ways.

I agree with your solution too.

Yeah it's part of dog ownership I struggle with I get that spaying and neutering is a good thing and something I practice with my own dogs (and Cat). And I get that cropping ears and tails just for looks is a bad thing but they're arguably the same thing even if done for very different reasons.