Dangerous Dogs

A neighbour said on tv that she'd been out to buy a meat pie to eat and when she returned with it the dogs attacked her.

The BBC interviewed a neighbour who said his Japanese Akita cross something else big and fiery was always kept caged and never allowed near children or strangers. I don't think it came in the house either. How pointless. The only reason I can of for keeping that poor animal is as a threat. But to whom? And why?

Of course I meant "jumps", fingers all over the place today.

I wonder why she wasn't at school? And before anybody jumos down my throat for being unsympathetic, I am not, but why was she there with apparently unsupervised dogs?

She was only 14 though. And on her own in the house with them...

I agree that a pack of dogs should not be kept in a small terrace. Also that you should never leave a child with a dog even for a minute as that's all it takes.
However the poor girl was a teenager.

I would never leave any dog with any child. I completely blame irresponsible owners. I feel that any dog is dangerous if in a 'pack' which these obviously were. Just my humble opinion.

As an example I was on the beach last week when a young [but fully grown] Bernese Mountain dog bounded up to me and my dog. We greeted him and patted him and laughed at him [he was a big, soft baby]. If that had been a mastiff I would have kept my dog on a short lead and got out of the way as quickly as possible.

Poor little girl.

But if you take two breeds of large dog it would be safe to assume that a mastiff would be potentially more dangerous if not correctly handled than, say a St Bernard by their very breeding, even though both dogs are so big and powerful that a person could not control them physically.

If only the powers that be could realise that the big problem is irresponsible owners. They seem to spend a lot of time minutely examining dogs to see if they are "dangerous" breeds (any dog can be dangerous in the wrong environment) instead of doing something about the idiots who are deliberately keeping them as weapons.

Horrible story, a young girl just starting her life. Poor girl and her family have to live with it. I am wary of dogs because I have never grown up with them and I am sure they can sense this.

It is a tragedy.

My experience of dogs as a visiting SW has never been good - the most difficult clients always had the most difficult dogs.

Dogs are pack animals - they are not meant to be cooped up in houses. And when one turns on someone the others will follow.

So very sad - and what a terrible way to die.

Sorry, it was 5 dogs, one of which was not destroyed. 2 staffies and 2 mastiffs were put down in the garden. A needless tragedy all round.

I saw the house on local news. Looks like an ordinary council house with enclosed back garden. I used to work in Atherton about 15 years ago and recognise the estate. Those houses look like they wouldn't have a housing assoc or local authority restriction on pets, although why anyone would choose to have 4 dogs in a small property I don't know, unless they bred them.

I heard about this horrible event late last night on the radio and, not surprisingly, had dreams about big fierce pit bulls, though I don't know if these were implicated this time.

One report that I read said that the property is a housing association owned maisonette. I wouldn`t have thought that tenants would be allowed to keep 5 dogs, also, there can`t be much room for them.

They had reverted to pack mentality, which any dog can and does do. Tragic case.

Cause not all dogs are like the one the radio mentioned, most of them are friend of us... Once they were taken care carefully, they would be not offensive, thought this kind of issue happens just due to they are not treated kindly or trained appropriately...