Does something need to be done about dogs?

You say ice cream - let's take fishing. Fishing is known to be a very dangerous profession, and people can and do die at sea.
From a brief Google, there are some fatalities most years. 10 in 2021. 6 a couple years before that.
And many hundreds of injuries.
Would people stop eating fish to stop the deaths? Clearly, no.

People don't want to die, but accidents happen. Sheet happens. We accept it. We keep eating fish.

That said, we do take steps to try to minimise risk, whenever possible. Particular breeds of dog do represent an elevated risk, as they were bred to fight. I'm not sure I see the need for chavs to own said dogs, and would be perfectly fine with a total ban on some breeds.

But any dog can be dangerous. And it's a risk that, collectively, we seem happy to accept. The reason is pretty obvious. Dogs that don't kill you only make you stronger. Or something.

e: also, how has this thread reached 100+ pages? (Or 3.14159 pages for the weirdos with page size fetish). No, I'm not going to go back and read it all. Aint nobody got time for that. But an abridged version would be nice, if someone could volunteer?

When dave goes fishing and his boat sinks, does little timmy playing in the park get ripped to pieces?
 
Here we are again, another post with no new news outside of trying to scare mongering people in to believing their local shops are unsafe due to the thousands of dogs in the country.
No mention of type of dog, why dont you just admit you are scared and hate dogs entirely?
Do you work for the daily mail by any chance? The level of scare mongering within your posts is outrageously funny.

Waaa wass sidimmu crying again!

Told you, don't like the thread then you know where to go.

I'm sure the type of dog is really important to the girl whose face has just been chewed to bits.
 
Sorry I thought you decided to provide something useful in this thread for a change, how mistaken I was, yet again.

So you hate dogs entirely, glad we finally got there, only taken 2000+ posts.

You hate context to items and instead just want the outrage and justification for your rather strong and outdated opinion.

You're making things up. Tut tut. Waaaa
 
Have you read any of the previous posts in here or are just keeping completely oblivious to counter points?
Plenty of additional context, cant always be down to the dog alone; Why was this dog not controlled, was it on a lead? Why does the owner has a dog they cant restrain or control? How has the dog been bought up, if its aggressive, should it be out in public? Why is it not in a muzzle? If truly dangerous, why do you own it still and not destroyed it?
Human intervention points that the owners chose to ignore. All of this could have also prevented the 5 year old getting a "shredded face" as you put it.

All irrelevant points in the face of yourself and others in this thread who are in complete denial about there being a problem.
 
Very mature and very articulated response....
Fancy saying how all the points are irrelevant? As they could also save the public from a mauling.


Why are they? Some parents commit atrocious crimes with and against their children.

It's called logic. If people are not willing to accept there's a problem then the causes are irrelevant.

Without parents you don't have children. Come on, engage brain.
 
I'm not sure what to make of this thread.

I mean - yes, it's very nasty when something like this happens.... But in a country with 67M people and 13M dogs, it's just a fact of life that one or two of these things will happen every now and then, because that's the natural chaos of life.

**** happens, and it's horrible when it does - but that's the price of living in a free society.

Except it isn't 1 or 2 and it's increasing at a staggering rate.

You seem to be saying that the maiming and death of people is a price you're willing to pay so that people can have dogs?
 
How you getting on with your own idiot?

Sadly he has still abjectly failed at all training classes and the simplest of commands is beyond him. He's one dumb pup, his uncle beforehand was the direct opposite! Perhaps dumb isn't fair...belligerent. thats better.
Kept on a very tight and short leader when he's out. Kept away from kids at all times. Only let off the lead in a free-run area when he's out.
 
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What, in detail, do you propose to stop things like this rare event happening?
Rare event?


A recent United Kingdom (UK) population-based survey estimated that 25% of individuals have been bitten in their lifetime16. A third of those bites required medical treatment,

That's not a rare event!
 
Why did you ignore what i asked?

I'lll ask again : What, in detail, do you propose to stop things like this rare event happening?

So that you don't dodge this question again, i mean by rare that it's rare a child is killed by a dog going to the shop. But let's not argue over that, answer the question on what would you do to stop it?

The child wasn't killed. I don't get why you want to focus on one specific attack scenario to the exclusion of all others. That's very strange.
 
What do you think should happen though?

Each time there's an attack, you do a link-n-run and make a song and a dance about it,

But what actual idea or system do you think should be put in place to help solve it?

It's not each time there's and attack though, is it? There are literally thousands of attacks every year. The stats have been posted multiple times. And there's no running, I'm here replying.

Myself and others have already suggested systems throughout this thread.

Yourself and others seem content to do nothing and effectively sacrifice an ever increasing number of people, maiming thousands more for dog ownership without control.
 
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