@The Barbaric one - in short yes your friends bull mastiff should be put down. There are no use or needs for these breeds unless your a drug dealer or a chav with nothing to do.
@The Barbaric one - in short yes your friends bull mastiff should be put down. There are no use or needs for these breeds unless your a drug dealer or a chav with nothing to do.
every dog has the potential to do damage, there is wolf in all of them
@brick-spine , should we not therefore eliminate every member of the armed forces? Are they not "an animal" bred with the ability to be aggressive , able to be trained to kill .? Maybe your breed has no use .
You might want to have a bit of empathy for what happened to this poor girl rather than pin blame on dumb animals , unless of course you have an affiliation with them !
In response to your 2nd paragraph, indeed this a dreadful and very tragic case. The owner of the dogs along with the dogs should be put down, unfortunately society dosent work like this so only the dogs will be dealt with.
Bull Mastiff are agggressive dogs, I speak from experience when my ex partners brother in law had one. Like you they thought he was a family pet and was ok until he went all aggressive outside the front door for no reason one day. Totally uncontrollable that the family stayed inside until police handlers had to come. The family was in shock that they had the dog put down(it was heartbreak). To cheer the kids up they bought them a chocolate labrador at a later date. They werent put of having a dog, just the type. Do you think the labrador would turn one day like the Bull mastiff?? No, i dont think so either. Its the breed as well as the owner.
Im surprised a man of your knowledge has not had a quiet word in your friends ear regarding his choice of dog...
I see what you're saying in a way , but I think you miss the point . You had a bad , personal experience with a particular dog, therefore that breed is wrong ?
My friend was murdered by his army soldier dad when he was barely ten years old, we all thought he was a great bloke , serving his country , " until he went all aggressive outside the front door" as you put it . I am in no way trivialising things or justifying them but seriously you cannot pin a whole breed on a single incident
Pit bulls, mastiffs, staffs should all be banned or shot. No reason to have them as a domestic pet apart from Chav society using them as a fighting dog. I find it incredible that not enough has been done and much tougher laws for owners especially ones ago have been reported as attacking others.
i am , but only as a counter-argument. I have every sympathy for spits personal experience but i also have every reason to put foward my own point of view , why is a particular type of animal anymore culpable than another for their actionsAre you not doing the same thing with your analogy of the Armed Forces?
There is a tiger in every cat too, should we put them down?
More people die each year riding horses than being attacked by dogs. ALL breeds of dogs can turn nasty, as the Mastiff in the account above did, the ones that are trained to be nasty are owned by nasty people who want an agressive dog.
I've yet to see or hear of any labrador turn
I've yet to see or hear of any labrador turn
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-20/delhi/33975855_1_dog-breeder-mauls-ravi
NEW DELHI: Mauled by a pet Labrador dog, an 11-month-old girl died on Tuesday evening after doctors at a Noida hospital lost a three-hour battle to save her.
Boy, three, left with horrific facial injuries as Labrador savages him while his mother strokes puppy
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-injuries-Labrador-savages-Poole-Harbour.html
There are many many more.
Sorry not buying this daily mail sensationalism. The dog must have been a cross breed with something more sinister probably mentioned above