Dangerous Dogs Owners

You don't see anyone with a respectful career or a good, grounded position in the community with those dogs.

Funny that.

id say 99% of people who own these dogs are criminal drug dealers. from my experience.

Useful for enforcing drug debts I guess?

The only reason to own a dog like that is for the plausible deniability when you do decide to starve it for a week before setting it on someone.

Owners of dogs which attack others need to be treated as if they themselves carried out the attack, in a premediated fashion, with a weapon.

Rip to the victim here but what the hell was she doing with one of these dogs as a pet. Would a Labradoodle not do?

You could be a 6ft 4 body builder or whatever and still not be able to control an XL bully dog especially if off the lead- regardless of what way such a person could defend themselves against an attack, they’ll be piss poor use of their XL has bolted and attacked a kid 50 metres away

I think men feel it's a symbol of bravado.

How did she manage to have 4 dangerous dogs, I wonder were all chipped and licenced, sorry if that sounds victim blaming

If ever there was a rational reason to victim blame, this is surely it.

Anyone else who immediately thought of yer wan on liveline a couple of weeks ago complaining about having to give up her bull terrier cos they weren't allowed in her council house?

And great for their image as a "hard man" the dog is just a weapon to them like carrying a gun.

Of course the minister responsible has to wait for an 'expert' report on the matter before acting, lest they be blamed for actually making a decision.

You'd have to wonder why anyone votes for these people.

Perhaps her death won't be in vain if it makes other owners sit and look at their potential killer dog tonight and ask themselves "could that decide to maul me some day".

People behave perplexingly toward their own dogs (and other pets of course). Some treat them like they are almost human and seem to believe they have self awareness and "feelings" whereas in reality they are just primative biological eating machines.

This is OK if you have a small dog which will scarcely be a risk to anything I suppose but the same delusion with bigger dogs can be dangerous. The notion anyone would leave a baby with a grown husky is so stupid as to be Darwinistic. "Oh he loves the family, he's 8 years old...". All bs but the vast majority of people with that mindset set get away with it. You'd think nature stops at the door of their households.

As for "scrote dog" breeds yeah something should be done about that.

Dog lover here, have 2 labradors. Love all dogs, or at least I did until I met an xl bully. And then later some sort of bull terrier cross, which actually bit me. And I've been around Rottweilers, German shepherds a good bit, great breeds of dogs too. Although very powerful.

The girlfriends friend from work ended up minding xl bully last year, we dropped into her house to get something and was met by this abomination of muscle and teeth. Must have weighed what my 2 decent sized labs do together. Wasn't friendly either, it seemed a bit off with my presence and even scared of me which put me very on edge. I've gained trust of nervous dogs before, I've made a point of doing that but no way was I going near this thing. I was a bit worried for her leaving her alone with it but nothing happened. I'm a 100kg ex rugby player and I wouldn't fancy my chances if it did attack me, she would be bolloxed altogether.

The dog that bit me was small, about 15kgs I'd guess but it's head must have been half that. Bull terrier cross something or other. Massive head and jaws. I walked into the room, it was grand with 2 females presence but not with me, jumped up and bit me on stomach ripping through a t shirt and breaking skin. I still have a small scar. Again, she was minding it for someone.

These things are so far removed from suitable family pets or even suitable for the type of scrotes that but them.

They should be banned. What's wrong with having the hundreds of dog breeds that aren't bred to be so powerful and savage. Something wrong in the genetic code, I reckon it's a very shallow gene pool too.

I thought it was her own dog?

The ban should be brought in immediately. Several cases in UK, all the same type of dog. There should be no ifs or buts it's 100% clear cut.

It's plain and simple that these dogs have to be banned. Too many people have been attacked or killed, thankfully the times I've been bitten it's been by small dogs. These dogs are just uncontrollable if they turn and it's pretty obvious the owners aren't capable of been taught to properly train and look after them. You have to take control out of the hands of owners and unfortunately the dogs have to go

I have actually heard it said that pit bulls are great around children. Yip, hard to believe. Might just have been owners trying to justify their ownership?

Apparently German shepards have the highest number of attacks annually. Not sure I'd true or not.

That would require a level of awareness and intelligence that would be way beyond what an owner of those dogs could manage.

Yes - I don't like to speak ill of the dead, but I can't understand how a 23 year old woman would have the time to look after FOUR large dogs properly.

I'm including training in that, but even just the day-to-day exercising of four dogs wouldn't usually fit well into the life of a typical 20-something who doesn't have an outdoors-type job. So I'd suspect the dogs were getting woefully inadequate stimulation and exercise, and the fact that she knew she needed extra training for one of them shows there was en existing issue with behaviour.

Absolutely tragic, but TBH at least it wasn't a neighbour's child whose life was destroyed.

Did I hear right this morning that whoever raised the alarm saw the attack on CCTV and forwarded the footage to her family?