unclebuck

A two-year-old this time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...es/5383928.stm

How many more have to be maimed and die before the ego cripples have these symbols of their impotency banned for good?

PG

Plenty people are attacked by various breeds of dog on a daily basis.

Come! Jump on the Rottweiler bandwagon.

SJ_Skyline

You don't see cats attcking and maiming people!

DCI Gene Hunt

That's one bandwagon that wound seriously damage your health........

davegtt

Dont mean to laugh at such a bad story but

wtf was he thinking, I told it to go away Dont really know the whole story on this one to pin point any blame at the minute but its obvious ANY dog with the power and size of a Rottie is potentiolly dangerous and therefore should be kept on a very tight leash in public. So going off that the owner of the dog should have had more control over the animal but thats all I'll say at the minute, least the little lad is alive and well

Lydia72

you haven't met my *****.

davegtt

RMA26

I'm trying to be clean minded here, trying..............

Back on thread - Bad **** once again

RMA26

We think alike Dave!

Vapid

There's some truth in what you say about the scum that think these type of dogs are an essential component of their 'hard' image. However as usual banning things isn't the answer and only a mental cripple would call for such a ban.

Iwan

"behead all rottweilers"...

B9GLY

theres nothing wrong with rotties, a bloody poodle could tear a kid to pieces!!!!!!!!!!! the problem is how they are brought up/trained and looked after, not the dog breed!

Stainy

Ok so I'm taking the 'bait'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5049082.stm

Abdabz

Agreed. I have already emailed the bbc regarding their irresponsible journalism re this topic.
Dogs bite kids every day but since the horrific death of the child at the weekend at the the hands of a rottweiler the media have become "dogmatic".

The media would have us believe that since the introduction of the DDA, not one dog of ANY breed has ever mauled a human being... Until this weekend...When aliens took over the minds of rottweilers and made them all blood thirsty mentalists
There are tens of thousands of responsible rottweiler owners who will be sh1tting themselves now because of the public furor that the likes of our illustrious thread starter and the media are generating.

Last time when staffys, pit bulls and alsations were the target, the splendid media representation of the breed led to innocent owners having abuse shouted at them and being threatened.

I suppose as a few humans kill people, WE should all be neutered too?

alcazar

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Utterly agree with the above. Well said, that man.

Alcazar

SJ_Skyline

"A Ukrainian of Azerbaijani origin lowered himself into the enclosure using a rope. He was quoted as saying God would save him."

Natural selection in action!

Moley

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Agree completely.
The two dogs which attacked the child last week were kept as guard dogs.

Vapid

.............but it is true to say that people who own dogs like those in question and strut around with them as part of their 'hardman' pose are complete d1ckheads who probably shouldn't have them.

J4CKO

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Next Top Gear should feature a fully recovered Richard Hammond attempting to break the land speed record on a Rottie by whacking its nads with a wooden spoon.

THe Rottweilers and Top Gear can be banned in the resultant media/PC frenzy.

The Snug Rhino

all this "it could be any dog" stuff is not really true is it.

firstly some dogs ARE more likley to bite than others...to say thats not true shows a lack of common sense.

and

some dogs do more damage when they do bite.

so a dog not likley to bite and not able to do much damage if it does is less risk than one that may well bite and weighs 10 stone.

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

Vapid, thats like saying all X5 owners are ********.

davegtt

Maybe Im reading your post wrong but I disagree, you cant say a rotty is more likely to bike that say a jack russell, just the russell has less chance of causing serious damage for it to be registered at a hospital or with the media. OK when you say some dogs are likely to bite more than others Id say its only true if were talking about guard dogs etc but not individual breeds IMO, off course certain breeds need to be brought up with more care and understanding and effort by their owners but again that puts the onus back onto the owner and breeders etc.

J4CKO

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My mums Chiwauwa was a bugger for biting people, it smarted but didnt do any lasting damage, A Westie bit me the little ****, that hurt, broke the skin, my mate, its owner bit it back when it bit him, properly and it hasnt bitten since !

I dont fancy going any bigger in the biting stakes.

Vapid

You mean correct?

Generic User

Fact is, over the past year there have been numerous dog attacks, some being done by large "dangerous " dogs.

However nearly all of them have either been ignored by the media or given a small report that is often ignored.

...Until a decent head line pops up "baby killed by dogs". And Bingo, every reporter is seraching every single recent dog mauling case that is happening on a daily basis. Statistics dicate that out of the thousand of people mauled by dogs every year (re: Mostly postmen ) Some will be children, and some will be mauled by a Rotty (it's not as if they are a rare breed )

And there you go, an immdediate media bandwagon.

davegtt

lol.. My Bulldog tried to bite me once so I bit him back hard on the leg and made him yelp, he hasnt even considered doing it again.

Norman D. Landing

I fail to see the relevance of them being kept as Guard Dogs. Are you assuming that the owners tormented them constantly so that they would be better guard dogs? If they did then does that explain why they sought out a baby in an adjacent flat and killed it ? What exactly is 'Guard Dog' about that?

J4CKO

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You cant really blame the press, as healdines go,

'ROTTWIELERS EAT BABY'

is pretty emotive, the facts are they did kill a six month old child, granted any dog could do it, it it was Labs they would get the same treatment but with a 'your faithful family friend could be a murderer' slant, Rotties just get a 'see, we told you they are evil slant'.

Anyway, we narrowly avoided

'RICHARD HAMMOND KILLED BY VAMPIRE'

New_scooby_04

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Great headline:

'A ROTTWIELER ATE MY HAMPSTER'

I'm not sure about the assumption that people invariably buy Rotties for an ego boost though; although some clearly do!

IME Most of the time, you don't so much choose a dog as much as the dog chooses you!


Ns04

Vapid

Has anyone said that people invariably buy the dogs as an ego boost? I certainly haven't. There are a proportion that do though, you know the type,gold jewellery wearing shaven headed tracksuit wearing thugs and that's only the wives.