Toddler needs 200 stitches after dog attack
10 September 2010, 07:54 PM
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Toddler needs 200 stitches after dog attack
Where does it all end. But there is a twist, for those "dangerous breed" preachers.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-..._200_Stitches_
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-..._200_Stitches_
10 September 2010, 08:09 PM
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Where does it all end. But there is a twist, for those "dangerous breed" preachers.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-..._200_Stitches_
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-..._200_Stitches_
Jeez, poor lad.
"... "People naturally think it's pitbulls, rottweilers and the other dangerous breeds, but this was a collie. It's not usual that a collie would do this, but he wasn't brought up with children and snapped," she said. ..."
Sorry, but as I've said before, ANY dog can do this, no matter how soft it *supposedly* is, no matter how *well* trained it is, no matter that it *hasn't done anything like that before*, no matter that it may have been *used* to children. There is NO way that anyone, owner or not, can say that will never happen with their dog. It's just a bl**dy shame that it's the most vulnerable who get hurt the most. Kids like this that is.
Rant against the *my dog wouldn't hurt a fly, he'd lick you to death* brigade over ......
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10 September 2010, 08:23 PM
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Totally Dave poor little fella. Hope as much of that heals as possible.
Sorry if I have made it into a dig post and not give the kid the sympathy that is deserved.
Just goes to show though, any dog can be dangerous. And as the RSPCA said
Sorry if I have made it into a dig post and not give the kid the sympathy that is deserved.
Just goes to show though, any dog can be dangerous. And as the RSPCA said
A RSPCA spokeswoman stressed that dangerous dogs "are not defined by breed".
10 September 2010, 08:50 PM
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Agreed, this is certainly a break from the norm, A very sad one, but an eye opener for those blinkered to the view that only pits, staffs and rotties attack, and that smaller dogs never bite bad enough to make the news. Maybe we will finally get an unbiased view from the media now.
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10 September 2010, 11:08 PM
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So this is a working dog not quite a pet .
Collies are bloody mad anyway , when i was a kid people next door kept one , i say kept one , in fact it seemed roam free most of the time - was as skittish as hell and chased the back end of the bus that came once an hour - for miles
Used to have a thing with biting your feet as well if i remember correctly
Collies are bloody mad anyway , when i was a kid people next door kept one , i say kept one , in fact it seemed roam free most of the time - was as skittish as hell and chased the back end of the bus that came once an hour - for miles
Used to have a thing with biting your feet as well if i remember correctly
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I grew up with a alsation cross from 1.5 to 10 years which was off a farm
he mus have been brought up well cos there were no incidents - despite provocation from me and my sister
he mus have been brought up well cos there were no incidents - despite provocation from me and my sister
10 September 2010, 11:18 PM
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So this is a working dog not quite a pet .
Collies are bloody mad anyway , when i was a kid people next door kept one , i say kept one , in fact it seemed roam free most of the time - was as skitish as hell and chased the back end of the bus that came once an hour - for miles
Used to have a thing with biting your feet as well if i remember correctly
Collies are bloody mad anyway , when i was a kid people next door kept one , i say kept one , in fact it seemed roam free most of the time - was as skitish as hell and chased the back end of the bus that came once an hour - for miles
Used to have a thing with biting your feet as well if i remember correctly
11 September 2010, 09:38 AM
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So this is a working dog not quite a pet .
Collies are bloody mad anyway , when i was a kid people next door kept one , i say kept one , in fact it seemed roam free most of the time - was as skittish as hell and chased the back end of the bus that came once an hour - for miles
Used to have a thing with biting your feet as well if i remember correctly
Collies are bloody mad anyway , when i was a kid people next door kept one , i say kept one , in fact it seemed roam free most of the time - was as skittish as hell and chased the back end of the bus that came once an hour - for miles
Used to have a thing with biting your feet as well if i remember correctly
I would love a dog (Malamute) but we can't lok after it properly. Our daughter is 8 and I would have a dog at her age but not below 5 - any dog that is.
11 September 2010, 09:50 AM
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One of my favourite dogs was a Collie which my mate who had a few acres had. Always rushed up to say hello when I drove in and without fail cocked his leg over the back wheel 
Mate got fed up with UK, bought a container, and buggered off to New Zealand. Dog now has miles of empty sandy beach to burn off his boundless energy. Not a dog for a small family home.
Sorry off topic but to mention that my mate farmed Sturgeon and dog adored fish food pellets as a treat. These had a lot of fish oil and dog had the most fantastic coat I have seen.
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Mate got fed up with UK, bought a container, and buggered off to New Zealand. Dog now has miles of empty sandy beach to burn off his boundless energy. Not a dog for a small family home.
Sorry off topic but to mention that my mate farmed Sturgeon and dog adored fish food pellets as a treat. These had a lot of fish oil and dog had the most fantastic coat I have seen.
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11 September 2010, 09:53 AM
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11 September 2010, 10:32 AM
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You can look after mine for a while if you want
lolLol and you know that for a fact? What a stupid assumption. And one of those bites in the wrong place, like the neck could have been fatal.
11 September 2010, 11:02 AM
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I feel so sorry for that poor lad. He will surely be scarred for life. Very lucky it was not a worse result.
I think they will have to make muzzling law when a dog is out in public. Most of the ones I see around here are muzzled and they don't appear to be distressed in any way.
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I think they will have to make muzzling law when a dog is out in public. Most of the ones I see around here are muzzled and they don't appear to be distressed in any way.
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11 September 2010, 11:31 AM
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I think people seriously under estimate the capability of most medium sized dogs. If a dog wants to hurt you badly..... It will!
The injuries here were more than likely frustration bites, hence the number of re-bites and snap snap snap. Rather than tearing and mauling to kill.
Watch any dog bite in frustration and it will usually be a series of small snaps. My male will use this technique to put the girl in her place. When they fight it's a very different matter.
A fox can kill a sheep or other sized animal, look at the jaw on them!
The injuries here were more than likely frustration bites, hence the number of re-bites and snap snap snap. Rather than tearing and mauling to kill.
Watch any dog bite in frustration and it will usually be a series of small snaps. My male will use this technique to put the girl in her place. When they fight it's a very different matter.
A fox can kill a sheep or other sized animal, look at the jaw on them!
11 September 2010, 12:45 PM
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I feel so sorry for that poor lad. He will surely be scarred for life. Very lucky it was not a worse result.
I think they will have to make muzzling law when a dog is out in public. Most of the ones I see around here are muzzled and they don't appear to be distressed in any way.
Les
I think they will have to make muzzling law when a dog is out in public. Most of the ones I see around here are muzzled and they don't appear to be distressed in any way.
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Would be nice to see peep take responsibility for their children in public too. Like the woman who allowed her child to run up behind a 110lb lump of a dog (tuvaaq) to repeatedly try and catch his tail. All the while she was laughing and saying "oooh big doggy"
11 September 2010, 12:52 PM
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Lol ok you believe what you want, but foxes are hated by farmers for maiming sheep occasionally killing them, as well as lambs and other farm animals. My point being, if a fox can kill an animal, it can cause serious harm so a collie could indeed cause far worse damage to a child if it chose to.
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I find the biggest "distractors" - that's the use of "well more people are killed by...... so my man eating tiger is fine" are the ones that own the most dangerous of animals.
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Lol ok you believe what you want, but foxes are hated by farmers for maiming sheep occasionally killing them, as well as lambs and other farm animals. My point being, if a fox can kill an animal, it can cause serious harm so a collie could indeed cause far worse damage to a child if it chose to.