Does something need to be done about dogs?

The owners should receive manslaughter charges (not restricted to 'extreme' cases, all cases no matter the circumstance) since the owner should have trained them better or acknowledged their dangerous nature and mitigated the risk through ensuring their animals could not possibly be in such a situation to begin with.
 
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StriderX said:
The owners should receive manslaughter charges (not restricted to 'extreme' cases, all cases no matter the circumstance) since the owner should have trained them better or acknowledged their dangerous nature and mitigated the risk through ensuring their animals could not possibly be in such a situation to begin with.
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Would you apply the same stringent legal charges to the parents of children who kill or seriously maim other people?
 
Dis86 said:
That's straight up incorrect. Look at what happens with strays. Heck, they even form packs in homes.
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Dogs aren't Wolves. Heck, even the concept of Wolves being 'pack animals' with males fighting for dominance, to be alpha, has widely been debunked.

Dog Behavior And Training Dominance Alpha And Pack Leadership What Does It Really Mean | VCA Animal Hospitals (vcahospitals.com)

The research that was conducted decades ago that was misunderstood to conclude wolves and therefore dogs are pack animals, with a constant struggle for leadership was based on animals in captivity, made up of different individuals that would not be together in the wild. It too has been discredited.

You need to update your position with some fresh research.
 
Dis86 said:
That's straight up incorrect. Look at what happens with strays. Heck, they even form packs in homes.
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No it isn't.

Dogs are generally thought to be descended from wolves so it was automatically assumed that they would be pack animals with little to no research.

Studies of large quantities of free ranging wild dogs in Romania, Africa, South America, India, Mexico and other countries have shown this to be false. Research showed dogs would occasionally stick together for a couple of days through a common goal ( food, scavenging not hunting, or females in heat generally) and then go their separate ways. None of the dog populations studied formed packs in the way wolves do and male dogs do not get involved with the rearing of their puppies, unlike wolves.
 
Foghorn Leghorn said:
No it isn't.

Dogs are generally thought to be descended from wolves so it was automatically assumed that they would be pack animals with little to no research.

Studies of large quantities of free ranging wild dogs in Romania, Africa, South America, India, Mexico and other countries have shown this to be false. Research showed dogs would occasionally stick together for a couple of days through a common goal ( food, scavenging not hunting, or females in heat generally) and then go their separate ways. None of the dog populations studied formed packs in the way wolves do and male dogs do not get involved with the rearing of their puppies, unlike wolves.
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Again, incorrect.

"Stray dogs are unowned animals that tend to show remarkable plasticity in pack behavior, leading to group stability.103 The density of stray dogs reflects this plasticity, varying from 127 dogs to 1304 dogs per square kilometer.103 Stray-dog packs tend to be a little smaller than feral packs and have two to three times as many males as females.79,103,125"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/immunology-and-microbiology/feral-dog
 
In one incident in Hornsea, East Yorkshire, people were seen trying to pick up a four-month-old female seal by its hind flippers to drag it out to sea.

Emily Mayman, a marine mammal medic with BDMLR, said the pup was "pelted in the face with sand and stones by adults and children and suffered injuries to her head and eye".
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Sounds like dogs are the least of the problem here, :confused:
 
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