Dog has a bite, owner watches

Little dogs can be nastier. I've found that Jack Russells and Yorkshire Terriers can be especially nasty around kids.

I don't see there as being any risk with my dog. He wouldn't be left with the baby unsupervised anyway and the baby will grow up having the best friend it'll ever know there to play with. My parents had a rough collie puppy when I was 6 months old and we grew up together. And as far as he was concerned he was my dog, not theirs. He used to sleep at my feet every night. My experiences with my first dog were some of the happiest moments of my childhood. Plus, in this day and age, if you were a kid walking a large dog, a paedo would be less likely to try and snatch you, the prospect of having a chunk of flesh ripped out of them is probably more persuasive than interfering with a child. Every single kid in my street makes a fuss of my dog when they see him and he loves the attention, so unless my niece/nephew has an allergic reaction to drool, they'll see a lot of Benson.
 
dirtydog said:
LOL if you say so. I agree with Amp34. Ban all dogs like that as far as I'm concerned, they're ticking time bombs.
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To what extent?

Banning all dogs like akitas, samoyeds, spitz type dogs? Those based on the wolves are probs the closest ones to real fighters,

afaik the only dog that's been prohibited in the uk is http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/tosa.htm
 
elroberto said:
Little dogs can be nastier. I've found that Jack Russells and Yorkshire Terriers can be especially nasty around kids.

I don't see there as being any risk with my dog. He wouldn't be left with the baby unsupervised anyway and the baby will grow up having the best friend it'll ever know there to play with. My parents had a rough collie puppy when I was 6 months old and we grew up together. And as far as he was concerned he was my dog, not theirs. He used to sleep at my feet every night. My experiences with my first dog were some of the happiest moments of my childhood. Plus, in this day and age, if you were a kid walking a large dog, a paedo would be less likely to try and snatch you, the prospect of having a chunk of flesh ripped out of them is probably more persuasive than interfering with a child. Every single kid in my street makes a fuss of my dog when they see him and he loves the attention, so unless my niece/nephew has an allergic reaction to drool, they'll see a lot of Benson.
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Parents had a golden lab when sis and I was growing up, and nobody could go near her pram without the dog getting between person and pram. It really was a case of approach at own risk.
 
That's pretty sick. My brother was describing a scene from 2fast 2furious (I think) about a rat in a bucket ... that's what should be done to the guy who owned the dog.
 
Amp34 said:
I have to disagree a little with that, as i said before staffs are fine but pitbulls are inherently rough and violent dogs, even if you treated it perfectly it could still turn one day.
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Thats what the media portrays, any dog can be rough and violent its the owners responsibility on how there dog behaves, there have been numerous studies that show there are lots of other breads who are statistically more likely to bite than a pitbull, In a study of over 100 breeds most likely to bite a person the Pitbull came 4th, from the bottom! Its the idiot owners who give the so called dangerous breeds a bad name.
 
I have confidence in a staffies temperament because Ive been around quite a few and never had a problem. However pit-bulls are in a different league and I am always fearful around them. I remember a news report a good few years back where a pit bull was eating its food from its bowl quietly. When one of the kids (a 2 year old) went to stroke it, she slipped and her hand went into the dogs bowl. The dog went schizo and bit into her arm and she became badly scarred.

If I had a choice between a pit-bull and a rotty, Id take the rotty. But above all I would definitely take a Staffie. They are awesome dogs and incredibly loyal and protective.
 
Chaos said:
Thats what the media portrays, any dog can be rough and violent its the owners responsibility on how there dog behaves, there have been numerous studies that show there are lots of other breads who are statistically more likely to bite than a pitbull, In a study of over 100 breeds most likely to bite a person the Pitbull came 4th, from the bottom! Its the idiot owners who give the so called dangerous breeds a bad name.
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Unfortunatly Pitballs are naturally aggressive and this is down to their skull splitting when they reach a certain size. That is why you do still need to register pitbulls with your local authority as mentioned in my other post.

I think I've seen ONE out of many Pitballs that came into the surgery I worked at that was nice and that was a puppy heh.
 
CLAWS said:
I have confidence in a staffies temperament because Ive been around quite a few and never had a problem. However pit-bulls are in a different league and I am always fearful around them. I remember a news report a good few years back where a pit bull was eating its food from its bowl quietly. When one of the kids (a 2 year old) went to stroke it, she slipped and her hand went into the dogs bowl. The dog went schizo and bit into her arm and she became badly scarred.
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I wonder what the parents' reaction was to that :rolleyes: Probably the girl's fault for upsetting their precious dog.
 
Shador said:
Unfortunatly Pitballs are naturally aggressive and this is down to their skull splitting when they reach a certain size. That is why you do still need to register pitbulls with your local authority as mentioned in my other post.
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They are naturally agressive towards other dogs because thats the way they have been bread not people. They are no more inherently dangerous to people than other dog breeds. Im starting to sound like a pitbull fanboy but im not, I just dont like the reaction that so called devil breeds get when most of the time its the owners fault. The media are partly to blame for the victimization of breeds, in the 70s it was the German Shepard, 80s the Doberman 90s Rottweilers and Pitbulls and recently looks like the pitbulls turn again.

Strange how we dont often hear the good things about the breed.

The no1 customs dog in america was a pitbull
One of the top rated search and recue dogs was a pitbull
A pitbull holds the most canine working titles than any other breed.
There are pitbulls in America that are taken to schools and assist in teaching kids about responsible pet ownership.

There have been many stories of pitbulls saving there family members life, a pitbull saved 2 chlildens lives when a snake came towards then, it shoved them out the way and took 2 bits from the snake, if it had got the children they would have died.

In fact similar things can be said for all the dangerous breeds I just feel sorry that so many get a bad name and most of the times its not the dogs fault.
 
Dirtydog have you ever had a dog? If you have you would realise that as long as a dog is treated properly and with respect they can be the most loyal thing in someones life.

Sometimes they will defend you to the death if they have to. This is especially true with people they think as too weak to defend themselves. When i was younger my our dog would have defended us no matter what, the same with my uncles dog at the moment. There is such a tiny risk to a baby that as long as you are sensible when they are small there is probably more of a likelyhood of being struck by lightning than the dog harming the baby. As i said in my previous post my sisters staffy adjusts her roughness to who she is playing with, with a small child she plays gently and with me or an adult she gets more rough but never hurts anyone.

I still hold my thoughts about pitbulls though, the same with rottys to some extent. I as a couple of other people thought pitbulls were illegal in this country?
 
singist said:
It has been illegal to own, import or breed pitbulls and pitbull crosses since 1991 so there really shouldn't be any around at all.
see here

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Yes, but they get around this by claiming their dogs are crosses from two other breeds and then nothing will get done about them.
 
Amp34 said:
Its always the same type of dog as well. :rolleyes:


But then its not the breeds fault they have a bad name, its the owners that like the specific breeds, "ooh im a big tough man because i own a staff or pitbull".



PS. Before anyone has a go about picking on certain types of dog my sister has a staff and its as dopey and thick as they come. The reason? Her ex boyfriend wanted one :rolleyes:
Just goes to show though if a dog is bought up well most of the problems supposedly associated with the breed arent there.
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I have a staff and he is awesome wouldn't hurt anyone most dosile dog i know, same goes for my sisters staff, he is just a lunatic but wouldnt hurt anyone!
 
Sounds like most of the staffs I know, though I have seen a few nasty ones. One dog was out loose when I was walking my boxer and was belting over to attack, now I'm pretty sure my boxer could have taken care of the little sod himself, but I don't want him thinking aggression was acceptable, so gave the staff a quick boot to the mush and it scarpered. But I don't think that it was reflective of staff's as a whole.
 
Marshmule said:
I have a staff and he is awesome wouldn't hurt anyone most dosile dog i know, same goes for my sisters staff, he is just a lunatic but wouldnt hurt anyone!
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Every time I read about a dog attacking someone, their owners say exactly the same thing.
 
dirtydog said:
Every time I read about a dog attacking someone, their owners say exactly the same thing.
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But its the truth, at the end of the day they are animals, so you will get nasty ones and you will get nice ones, people cant generalise
 
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