Bloody Dogs!
We have a group of Chavs living down the road from us, they are surprisenly quiet to be honest. They have an American Pit Bull what they show off, it’s a very mean dog.
This old lady were walking her dog down our backstreet this evening. The Pit bull jumped over the fence and starting attacking the other dog, the old woman were screaming for help, whilst the dog it was attacking were yelping.
A lot of the neighbours ran out of their houses and helped the situation. Eventually they got the dog off the other dog, I ran up and picked the little dog what was getting the attacked and walked down to my house.
I held the old ladys hand and told her to come down to my back yard. I give her a cup of tea and a ciggeratte. I then started to cry, the dog was so scared and was very injured. The old lady had a big gash where the dog bit her too. I give her a tea towel and rapped it round her hand. Chav walked down and walks straight into my yard to see if everything was OK, he states that the dog has been in trouble before as it attacked a sheep. I’m like, ”mate, not being funny or anything but that dog of yours needs to be put to sleep asap”. He didn’t say anything.
Just wondering what you guys think about this? you agree that the dog needs to be put to sleep? I walked the lady up to her home and I told her to go to the hospital tonight and take the dog to the vets tomorrow. She said she would, I do hope so does!
Please leave me a comment and let me know what should happen now?
oh my god ben u did great my friend i hope the lady and the dog is ok!!!!
I HATE DOGS!
It’s not bloody dogs, it’s the bloody owners!
My sister had a dog years ago, a staffy cross, lovely dog but she was always scared it would bite someone and I told her if I had a dog like that I would have it put down before it had the chance.
She didn’t listen to me (nothing new there) and it bit the thumb off the 8 year old girl next door. She had it put down then, bit late though.
The dog should definitely be put down – and as for the stupid chav admitting that the dog had caused trouble before – what a fekin numpty. Maybe the vet would do a 2 for 1 deal and put the chav down aswell?
Pit bull’s are illegal in the UK, so he should not have the dog in the first place!
lots of chavs have dogs now as a weapon. or just to look “Hard”
i hope the woman and her dog are ok, you done a good job looking out for her like that Ben!
I agree. Its the owners. The bring them up to be violent. Have you reported it to the police?
If a dog attacks a person isn’t that pretty much it and the dog gets put down?
I heard that if a Dog ever tastes blood they need to be put to sleep. Is that correct?
@TehBenny I thought it was just a ‘Pit Bull’ what was illegal, I didn’t know ‘American Pit Bulls’ were illegal?
Thanks Benny, I still feel so sorry for the dog and the lady.
Yeah man, that dog SHOULD be put to sleep. If the owners can’t control it and it terrorizes the neighborhood like that, sure. I agree with you completely. That poor old lady and her little dog. I hate those pit bulls, those dogs are always out of control.
If a dog attacks a person isn’t that pretty much it and the dog gets put down?
Legally, no.
In reality, yes: unless they really are bad people with so called “weapon dogs”, most owners are so shocked & ashamed that their animal has done such a thing that they will immediately give the police their permission to destroy the dog.
They are, of course, unwilling to accept their responsibility in this inevitable outcome, because they are encouraged from birth not to accept responsibility for anything, especially themselves.
I have owned Rottweilers since before the knee jerk, possibly worst thought out, and certainly least effective leglislation in recent history, the Dangerous Dogs Act. Rotties scraped past sanctions purely due to the fact that there were (and are) enough rich and influential Rottie owners to keep them off the list.
Thankfully, the vast majority of Rottie owners & breeders vet potential owners extremely carefully, so stories about “rogue” Rotties are relatively far & few between, compared to the more easily available Staffie.
I have frequently been offered significant sums to have my pedigree dog do his bit with a Rottie bitch by various pikey scum and have happily told them he’s not available or homosexual.
Forget innocent little Staffies, the Pitbull is an excellent dog- in the hands of a responsible, caring and mature owner.
They are fantastic with humans, especially kids; even, believe it or not, with other dogs. For several years after the the Dangerous Dogs legislation was introduced (until we moved), we let our male Rottie play for hours every night on Clapham Common with three different male Pitbulls. It was the only time they could safely let them off the lead and remove their muzzles because the police stayed away, for fear of being accused of persecuting the gay blokes banging each other senseless in the bushes in the same part of the park.
I could be wrong on this, but I seriously doubt that any Pitbulls now in the UK are owned by good owners, afer they were made illegal.
Me ‘n’ Mrs 849 would love a Tosa or Dogo Argentino. If we moved to a country where they weren’t illegal, finding a good breeder for one would be just slightly below finding accommodation.
Topical article from yesterday’s Hand Wringers’ Toilet Paper
Needless to say, I believe that a prohibitively expensive dog license is a very Daily Mail solution, which inevitably sounds viable & fair to people that think an outgoing & rounded life means joining a book club.
Nashtax: the old lady needs to leave the matter with the police to handle.
I seem to be seeing a lot of people out walking those Staffordshire Bull Terriers at the moment, especially around Council Estates and the like.
I’ll be honest, I really don’t like them. They are ugly, vicious, thick as two short planks and seem liable to attack you for no good reason whatsoever.
On the other hand, their dogs are brilliant…
has it got broad shoulders
has it got a sloping forehead
is it breathing through its mouth
has it got a big chain round its neck
if you answer yes to all of these
then there is a good chance that the dog he has with him is a pitbull
That is just terrible, and it makes me so sad
I hope the lady and her dog is doing fine now.
It is the owners though that has the fault here not the dog itself
the dog only follow what their owner has teached them to do.
If a dog is aggressive it is because the owner wants it to be so.
I have had dogs around me all my life, my family friends and myself all own dogs.
I have alot of experience with Many of what the people call the nasty type of dogs.
Ive had rottweilers, napolian mastiffs and english mastiffs All of them has been good and calm dogs. So again the dog only is the way of their owners will. I believe the rules on who can be allowed to have a dog need to be alot more strict. Dog lisences needs to be put in place everywhere. And as for that pitbull that attacked the lady and her dog yes it needs to be put to sleep right away. If a dog has attacked once it can and mostly likely will do so again.
Putting a dog to sleep because it is aggressive is plain and simple murder, this is the owners fault and not the dog, the dog does what it was raised to do, attack attack attack.
This dog obviously need a better home full of dog lovers, but honest dude don’t blame the dog, blame the damn ignorant owner.
I hope both dogs are okay here.
I’d better put my hand up here and say that I was raised with dogs. I love dogs – they’re fantastic. I don’t like to hear about dogs being put down for any reason. But for a dog to attack once is a problem. For the same dog to attack again, it’s inexcusable. I can’t blame the dog for doing it, because it’s a product of its environment, but at the same time, the dog did it and nobody was encouraging it. At that point, I’m afraid the dog’s a liability.
I’m not a fan of the big bull terriers – to me they just look ugly. My parents have had spaniels since I was 2, so I’ve been brought up with (frankly) pretty dogs. Ugly or not, that has no bearing on the animal’s suitability as a pet / companion / tool / whatever. I’ve spoken to a number of people who’ve kept bull terriers and loved having them. As Base says, they tend to be very friendly, intelligent dogs. The problem is the chavs / neds / pikeys / scallies / call-them-what-you-will who will obtain one of these dogs *just* because it looks hard. And they don’t know how to keep the dog from acting aggressively.
Unfortunately the people seem to be too stupid to grasp the simple concept that between you and your dog, there is only one boss. And if it’s not you, it’s the dog. My mum’s dogs have always known that she’s the boss. They’ll misbehave a little with me because I’m not really their boss, but as soon as she’s about they’re good as gold. And it’s that simple fact that stands between a strong, muscular, protective family friend; and a dangerous beast waiting for an easy opportunity to attack and relieve some boredom and aggression.
Still prefer dogs to cats!
ANY dog can be dangerous particularly to small children. Our dog was a real softy but I would NEVER have left him alone in a room with small children or off the lead where small children were playing – it’s just not sensible.
My ex in-laws had a Golden Retriever that was a sweet dog – we were visiting when she was in season and my (then) 9 year old daughter was told to leave her alone. She didn’t and got bitten – not badly, just nipped, and the dog knew she had done wrong and ran away – but it just goes to show.
The main issue here is the attitude of dog owners regarding their own responsibility towards society.
But it got me thinking about the only time when one of our dogs attacked someone, an unpleasant story all round.
Attitudes here in the UK of non dog owners towards dogs are different to other parts of the world. Not necessarily worse, or better; just different.
A negative for me during summer is the number of street urchins that feel that they can help themselves to my dog. I cringe when I see a group of children- there’s inevitably one at least that will do it & it’s my responsibility to keep it all under control.
As they mob him, arms outstretched:
“Duz e boight?”
This is Essex for “Can I see if his head and legs unscrew, or is he a dangerous dog like what I seen on the telly?”
“Not if you leave him alone” is my usual answer.
You simply don’t get this in most of the rest of the world. A Rottweiler is well known as a guard breed, not a fluffy toy.
Back to the story:
In Africa we had a lot of dogs over the years; never more than four at a time, but a lot were killed by prospective burglars poisoning them, or snakes.
One stood head & shoulders over all the others in his ability to protect the house: Dragon, a Rhodesian Ridgeback. Bred for hunting lions they’re never lacking balls, but generally not that smart.
But he was part Weimaraner- normally another dizzy dog, but somehow he was just about the smartest dog we ever had.
Anyway he survived his first poisoning, possibly because he figured the meat didn’t taste right & stopped eating it. In all the years after, over many further attempts, he never touched any more meat that came over the fence. In all the time we had him we didn’t get burgled by anybody other than our own servants- but that’s a different story.
Snakes are the other significant hazard- we’d have several snake/dog interfaces a year.
Being bitten by a Cobra (or occasionally a Black Mamba) is as bad news for a dog as a human, but Dragon knew when to leave them alone. Better than that, he was the alpha dog & all the other dogs learned from him & also stayed alive!
A couple more things about Dragon: he was that rare guard dog. He’d attack silently.
Not a polite little woof to give the game away before letting them have it.
Word gets round and the inside of the house that dog is guarding gets struck off the list of pretty much all burglars.
Then (don’t laugh), he had really yellow eyes. The Africans are very superstitious and without exception all believed that he was part lion. They simply didn’t want to be in the same yard as this animal.
So, as a guard dog, he was worth his weight in gold.
Then came the attack…
… on a child.
One of the next door neighbour’s teenage daughters amused herself each day by throwing rocks at Dragon as she walked past to & from school.
She’d been asked to stop by us & by her mother, many times.
This went on over a period of years.
Then one day my father made a serious error of judgement: he hadn’t seen anybody outside for a long time and Dragon was around the back of the house, out of sight. He didn’t shut Dragon in the little garden before putting the car outside.
Dragon didn’t make a single sound throughout. There was just a streak of light brown as he sprinted round the house, out through the gate and up the road, out of sight.
Then the screams started.
He’d obviously seen her go past long before the gate opened. He’d found her amongst a gaggle of girls all making their way to school and bit her dozens of times. No one else, just her.
A few bites were no more than an inch from her jugular vein- it was very serious.
We expected that it was a foregone conclusion that the police would turn up to shoot him, but amazingly that didn’t happen.
The girl’s mother forebade us to put Dragon down on account of this attack. She was angry with her daughter for disregarding all plees to stop stoning the dog and said that she’d brought this terrible attack on herself.
The mother remains good friends with my parents to this day- if she visits from Africa, she’ll stay with them.
No point to this story really, just a story from my childhood.
The DDA is a complete waste of time and money. So, how to police the problem? Because the problem is a human behavour problem