I'm sick of dogs being blamed for attacks.

[JackHb]

Very good idea maybe dogs must be kept on leads in ALL public areas? especially parks etc where kids are usually playing.

Any dog that attacks should be put down and the owner should get taken to court and sentenced to whatever punishment they should get if they carried out the attack themselves.

The majority of dog attacks are from neglected or badly treated animals but on the rare occasion the most loved animal has been known to attack The dog could be to hot, have something wrong with it, a bee or wasp sting etc. Dog owners/person in charge of a dog need to be 100% responsible for the dogs actions.

I think they should put you on a lead

If you bring your dog up right then the dog wont attack anyone - I have two dog's and both wouldnt hurt anyone. My cats would but the dogs wont.

[W00TZEH]

sorry to go off topic but OMG HI JACK

and dogs are cool if brought up properly

[Black_Apalachi]

I just saw a perfect example on the TV before which criticises the argument about certain breeds being dangerous no matter what. It was a programme like Pet Rescue but it was on BBC1 or 2 and this RSPCA officer was called to a house which was just empty and abandoned but there was a pitbull living in there with a litter of puppies which were a couple of weeks old. There was no food or water and the police were called to smash the door in so the dog would have been scared as hell, was starving and would be nervous of these people coming towards her puppies - yet still, this ferocious and dangerous monster was happy to come up to the RSPCA officer and was being as friendly as ever with no signs of aggression or even being protective of its pups. Now, I wouldn't be surprised of ANY kind of dog (or most other animals) acting aggressively in a situation like this so how is it that one on the banned breeds list showed such friendliness?

Humans suck.

[Muct]

Yeh, my Dog got put down the other month when it was snowing like mad in the UK...
And it wasn't his fault It was a properly trained Dog, and I always took care of it, so it wasn't my fault, it was the child and his Dad!

So, story here anyway...
I was walking the Dog on the field, and on the side of the field is a massive hill, a child and his Dad were sledging down it, my Dog was on the lead because I don't like it running around in the field in the freezing cold, so anyway, the child picks up a massive piece of snow, throws it at my dog, I look at it and realize it had one massive block of ice in the middle of it, I keep my calm but my Dog doesn't, it runs so hard I have to let go off the lead, and it doesn't even harm the child, it just simply pushes the back of it, and then it tries running back to me. But, the Dad takes it upon himself to grab the lead and literally WHACK it! When it did absolutely nothing wrong!
Sure, it pushed his back, but no harm was done, and the child was laughing, not to mention how he threw a block of ice on it before, and the Dad had no right whatsoever to hit my Dog, I took him to court and got him some Community Service and a Fine, but my Dog got took down...

That's harsh yo. I wouldn't mind, well, I would, but the Dog was fully trained and didn't even harm the child!

[Becca]

Your dog shouldn't be put down for that. I think that's ridiculous. The dad should be able to care for his kid and make sure that it doesn't throw snow at dogs, whether it's friendly or not.

[Black_Apalachi]

I don't get how you managed to win the case but lost at the same time

[Moh]

I agree that it's not always the dogs fault, but some breeds are different.

It actually doesn't depends on the breed either. We had a blue roan and tan cocker spaniel (mixed colour) and she had no temperament problems. However, there has been a lot of research gone into cocker spaniels and a solid colour cocker spaniel have more temperament problems than a mixed colour. No matter how much time you spend training the dog, they can sometimes just snap for no reason at all.

I don't think they should be put down though, surely they would make good guard dogs?