staffordshire type ???

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/10017616.Boy__4__bitten_by_family_pet_dog_in_Darwen/

staffordshire type of dog? how generalised is that? its so proffesional to breed fear of staffs.If they dont know the breed then family pet was suffice

Another bad owner , unsupervised child and dog


“It was not a dangerous dog type.

“It was a Staffordshire bull terrier-type dog.

“The owner, due to the fact that he had bitten his nephew, took it upon himself to have the dog put down.

“They were very upset about what happened.

“The children were very upset too as the dog was a family pet.

“It did not look like a vicious dog and had been through all the checks.”


but the owner should not have had his dog destroyed and what exactly is "been through all the checks" supposed to mean

Every sane person knows that any child should be supervised around any dog,we all know children have the tendacy to pull ears,lips,tails and pretty much torment a dog so i blame the owner.By the way Dave lovely photo

For goodness sake, three small puncture wounds! Do they know why? Did they even bother to try & find out why?

Heaven forbid that they should think that maybe the child was teasing the dog?

These days people don't distinguish between nips and attacks. Three small punture wounds doesn't sound like a dog that needed to be put down. It does sounds like a dog that in this day and age perhaps shouldn't be around kids. Who knows what happened - it may have not been well, the dog may have been teased or it may just be grumpy but the fact that the child wasn't supervised makes it impossible to know what went on.

Back before the DDA being nipped by a dog was all part of learning about dogs - be it learning to respect them or knowing when to avoid a grumpy one. It seems nowadays that this has been forgotten and we are bringing up kids to who believe they have the right to treat everyone and everything as they feel - just look at how some children treat teachers as another example! I'm not saying that in this instance this is the case far from it as I have no idea what happened (then again nor do the ppl involved) but it does seem to be the way society is going these days.

Sorry rant over!!!

Well it seem to me the owners wanted rid of the dog so took the easy way out, they should be shot themselves

Steveb wrote:These days people don't distinguish between nips and attacks. Three small punture wounds doesn't sound like a dog that needed to be put down. It does sounds like a dog that in this day and age perhaps shouldn't be around kids. Who knows what happened - it may have not been well, the dog may have been teased or it may just be grumpy but the fact that the child wasn't supervised makes it impossible to know what went on.

Back before the DDA being nipped by a dog was all part of learning about dogs - be it learning to respect them or knowing when to avoid a grumpy one. It seems nowadays that this has been forgotten and we are bringing up kids to who believe they have the right to treat everyone and everything as they feel - just look at how some children treat teachers as another example! I'm not saying that in this instance this is the case far from it as I have no idea what happened (then again nor do the ppl involved) but it does seem to be the way society is going these days.

Sorry rant over!!!

I agree totally,when i was growing up our family dog nipped me on the hand my dad said "that'll teach you to leave her alone" and suprise suprise i did learn,but there was not even a hint of dumping her,more chance of me being left tied to a fence.Nowadays parents think their kids have the right to just walk upto any dog known or not and do what they like and then scream dangerous animal/irresponsible owner, i hate humans sometimes

Great 4 last posts and all very true , puts a lot of meaning into when Steve says its Society we have to fix before anything else

"taffordshire bull terrier-type dog", whats that supposed to mean ???

I can remember my Mum saying that only thing newspaper is good for is starting a fire, how true that saying is literally.

i would not have but a my dog down for that but i would be extra careful around children .....it may have been that the dog was playing and just got a bit rough

kathytake2 wrote:
I can remember my Mum saying that only thing newspaper is good for is starting a fire, how true that saying is literally.

When I was a kid we used to use newspaper as toilet paper!

dave742 wrote:

Steveb wrote:These days people don't distinguish between nips and attacks. Three small punture wounds doesn't sound like a dog that needed to be put down. It does sounds like a dog that in this day and age perhaps shouldn't be around kids. Who knows what happened - it may have not been well, the dog may have been teased or it may just be grumpy but the fact that the child wasn't supervised makes it impossible to know what went on.

Back before the DDA being nipped by a dog was all part of learning about dogs - be it learning to respect them or knowing when to avoid a grumpy one. It seems nowadays that this has been forgotten and we are bringing up kids to who believe they have the right to treat everyone and everything as they feel - just look at how some children treat teachers as another example! I'm not saying that in this instance this is the case far from it as I have no idea what happened (then again nor do the ppl involved) but it does seem to be the way society is going these days.

Sorry rant over!!!

I agree totally,when i was growing up our family dog nipped me on the hand my dad said "that'll teach you to leave her alone" and suprise suprise i did learn,but there was not even a hint of dumping her,more chance of me being left tied to a fence.Nowadays parents think their kids have the right to just walk upto any dog known or not and do what they like and then scream dangerous animal/irresponsible owner, i hate humans sometimes

Could not agree any more with any of this. I was bitten a couple of times as a child and learnt my lesson, I always did not develop a fear of dogs..more a healthy respect. Why are people so ridiculous as to assume that a dog will tolerate any sort of torment and the minute it defends itself or says "enough" it should be put to sleep!!!!

yet again another stupid owner

Stupid owner for sure poor dog suffered because the little prince can't put a foot wrong, i see so many young kids today with parents who think they can do no wrong , and frankly it brassess me off

Its a sad case, if the dog had not been PTS there might well have been a court case, I think that a hospital has to inform the Police of any dog bite, please someone correct me if I am wrong. Since a child was involved and in the event of a court case the dog may well have had to be PTS as directed by the judge. I think its terrible what happened to this dog, it was tried and found guilty with no one to defend it.

Anne

not sure how the law lies with that one , but the dog was executed without a trial and from the story , which in all fairness are always overstated just seems a gross injustice

Panda wrote:Its a sad case, if the dog had not been PTS there might well have been a court case, I think that a hospital has to inform the Police of any dog bite, please someone correct me if I am wrong.

They might not have been a court case. Although the hospital informs the police, they would probably investigate & decide if it was a one-off accident or something more sinister. If the dog is usually friendly & well behaved, and the child was left unsupervised, the police & the family may well have been able to let it go.

Pure ignorance by the owner and yet again the dog suffers. Why dont they have themselves put down for being bad parents and dog owners? Oh no it can never be the fault of humans can it, as a species we always have to find something else to blame for our mistakes. And yes it is getting worse, it never used to be this bad. The blame culture arrived around 15 years ago and has steadily got worse.

omg wht is the world comming to ?? puncture wound and dog been put down for tht, its disgusting if he mauld him then yeh fair enough but you dont know what the child was doing to the dog, i have a boy and torement my staffy to dead and she nips him.. and yeh mark him. and she gets told of for it lol. down to lack or training poor dog has to suffer and give staffys a bad name just because of inresponible owner ship ( sorry about spelling mistakes ) lol

Parents wrap their kids in cotton wool these days When we were kids if that had happened to me or my sister we would have got in trouble for it, not the dogs, cause our parents knew our dogs would only nip us if we had been annoying them or hurt them.. Poor doggie RIP