Another Needless Death Due To An Xlbully Dog

[pastafreak]

Sad and pointless...yet some owners still think their dogs are harmless. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13043605/essex-dog-attack-xl-bully-dog-breeder-wannabe-rapper-jaywick-grandmother.html

[jno]

you could see if any local eateries will put XL Bully on the menu, pasta ... it'd be only fair 🤢

[Atheist]

Pasta... Are you suggesting that people should leave the country if they feel sorry for bad dogs?

[pastafreak]

I'm not sure how you got that impression Atheist. By 'other countries' I meant those that are far from sentimental and sell them for food.

I think jno got it 🤔😉

[Atheist]

Sorry, Pasta...

 

[Canary42]

Eating dogs is a cultural thing (just as we eat India's sacred cows.)

[andres]

Her grandson must be devastated. Your gran comes to visit and your two dogs kill her. This is tragic.

[andy-hughes]

It's interesting that, as a society, we would not collectively dream of trying to keep a lion or a tiger as a domestic pet.

Because, apart from space considerations, either is capable of killing an adult or a child with very little effort.

Why then, do some people find it acceptable to take a species of dog into their homes, to live with their famiies, when it possesses exactly those characteristics.

I am always banging on about idiots who claim their dog would 'never hurt a fly', but at least in the majority of cases, the worse they stand to get when they are proven wrong, is a nasty bite.

With these devil dogs, as we are incrasingly being told, a fatality is very much on the cards as an outcome of the day when 'soft as a brush' Fido suddenly decides to go for it.

[jno]

as a society, we would not collectively dream of trying to keep a lion or a tiger as a domestic pet.

up to a point, andy. There are more tigers in Texas than in India.

https://www.texasobserver.org/2835-a-tigers-tale-in-texas-where-you-can-own-a-pet-tiger-the-booming-exotic-animal-trade-has-grim-consequences/

[tomus42]

That's not our society jno, thank gawd. America is a strange place. They have guns as well as Tigers.

[ladybirder]

Death due to an idiot for an owner.

[andy-hughes]

jno - // 

as a society, we would not collectively dream of trying to keep a lion or a tiger as a domestic pet.

up to a point, andy. There are more tigers in Texas than in India. //

I was speaking of UK society, but acknowledge I did not make that clear in my post.

[jno]

it depends, tomus. You could map the demands for a Great Wall of Texas alongside the ones for an armada to block little boats in the Channel; or just note Boris endorsing Trump's re-election. I'm not going to make rash predictions, but I don't think it's right to just say "Oh, they're different from us".

[wolf63]

Police dogs are trained to run after bad men, bring them down and to back off on command.  They are a very effective asset.

But these Bullies have no such training and will continue to attack until they kill the opposition.

I had a nine stone Scooby Doo clone.  He was a gentle giant but was very protective of me.  He ran to my aid one night in a very remote area when I had problems with a drunk male.  His size alone made the guy run away, thankfully I never found out if would have attacked the guy.

 

[Barsel]

It isn't always the owners' fault. 

My late cousin had a beautiful Alsatian dog many years ago, soft as a brush.

We went to visit once with our 3 children and one of them started making a fuss of the dog and rubbing it behind his ears, the dog bit her.

My cousin failed to mention that the dog had an ear infection!

Took her to A&E but she was fine, and it didn't put her off dogs as she has 2 dogs of her own now, Daschunds.

 

[ladybirder]

Barsel the owner should have told you the dog had an ear infection so it was his/her fault.

[mibn2cweus]

I wouldn't count on any dog being any brighter than its owner.