Dangerous Dogs Owners

Gone are the days that instead of paying money you were sparing a pup a journey in a bag with a brick.

Children should be taught how to interact and respect animals irrespective of if you have them in your house or not. They are going to encounter animals in public and need to know how to interact and approach/not approach them. Not approaching a strange dog without permission should be lesson no 1 for dummy parents.

I’ve had children approach my dog on walks and pull out of him/ pull his tail. He’s placid and loves children but not all dogs are ok with this.

I’ve also seen 2 bold children throwing stones at the Alpacas in Farmleigh. Daddy said”oh Fiachra, now, now,” of course kids paid no notice and continued until I said in an authoritative manner “ Stop throwing rocks NOW”. Thought Daddy was going to say something but he didn’t. We’d have got strips torn off us for not respecting animals.

The bagged ones are strange allright. Often walked through parks and spotted bags of dog poo like leaves on the branches of trees

It’s the sane type of who leave their litter behind.

Another dog attack.

https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/two-rushed-hospital-after-dog-29309684

Why? Why do children need to be trained? This is victim blaming. If you bring a dog into a public area its YOUR responsibility to make sure it doesnt hurt anyone.

The mindset is unreal. As if a child should be the one who is responsible for not getting mauled.

“Well, ya know, my big dog only likes firm petting, any gentle petting, and he spooks and can attack. Your child should know this.”😖

Do folks have some secret magic dog interaction manual that protects you from getting attacked?

Plenty of attacks happen with no interaction. A loose wild dog and death.

This is a very uneducated statement to me.When I see a dog muzzled in public (particularly a dog on the restricted list) I automatically think,there's a good dog owner,they're following the law and protecting both the public and their dog.

I volunteer at an adoption center and my favourite dogs to walk are the staffies, the German Shepherds and the Mallys, in the right setting they are all fantastic dogs. However these dogs need very specialised handling and a hell of alot of training.Problem is, people watch the social media videos and think God that's a "cool" looking dog,I'd look so great strolling around with one of them,get the dog with zero research and then when they realise they have no clue on how to handle them,the dogs end up going to to the shelter. But getting back to the discussion,I've been around dogs all my life and there's there is no way in this world I would consider owning a XL Bully or a Cane Corso,they are too massive for 99% of people to handle. I don't find them ugly or unattractive I just know that should they decide to attack anyone or anything there's absolutely no chance of me being able to stop them. I don't know if banning the XL bully will make any difference, but if expensive mandatory training and expensive home inspection and checks were introduced it might reduce the amount of idiots who have no right owning an XL getting one.

As a side note,another person mentioned people training their kids how to act around dogs and some people got a bit peeved. I am inclined to agree with that statement. Kids should be shown by their parents that dogs have to be treated with respect, again social media videos of babies,toddlers, etc tugging on various breeds actually infuriates me because it's a ridiculously gamble to take with your kids. Teach your kids to ask an owner if it's ok to interact with their dog,any dog breed. Teach your kids to be gentle with interactions with any breed.

I imagine social media plays a large role in influencing certain people to get such a dog- TikTok will likely delete a dog mauling another dog or indeed a human so what you’re left with is cutsey videos of owners dancing with their XL bullys or saying how cute and loveable they are

There are certain people out there who ignore news reports government warnings and indeed the law which all advise against ownership of such dogs in one way or another - anyone owning an XL bully dog today is a fool quite simply- unfortunately it may well be innocent people not known to these dog owners who may well suffer lethal consequences yet

Another one, thankfully not fatal for those attacked.

I posted that too. If it was a child that was attacked, it might have been a very different story. Hopefully the injuries aren't too serious.

Just out of curiosity why do you think kids don't need to be taught anything about interacting with dogs? Do you mean all dogs or just those on the restricted list 🤔

I'd be more worried about the parents letting their children 'play' with these dogs, rather than trying to teach children not to get mauled by dangerous dogs. Perhaps the parents could do with some training

I don't think that the poster was saying - teach children to interact with dogs - as a way of excusing bad dog or owner behavior. I know some people who are terrified of dogs and that is something easily passed on to children as well. To me it looks like a terrible affliction if you can't go to places where there might be a dog. Again, not saying that as a reason to excuse dogs being off a lead where they shouldn't be, or restricted breeds not controlled whatever way they should be.

Parents have to come up to us and asked if their small child could pet our mutt, and we're happy to oblige as is he, because he thinks he's a child too or else they are small dogs, not sure which. It's just a useful life skill, that's all. In a few cases that's exactly what the parent said. They want their child to be comfortable around dogs.