A pit bull dog below in Wexford the latest episode of a child been savaged . Are these dogs suitable for pets .
PS The only people with Pitbulls or similar in our town are involved in drug dealing and or general criminality.
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I believe that it was a husky involved in this case.
I agree but this is not the first or last time a child will be maimed or killed by a dog. These attacks by all kinds of dogs happen all around the world daily.
I know dogs provide comfort for people but for me the drawbacks of having dogs as pets outweighs the benefits. I was attacked by a dog myself as a kid and have a scar to show for it as well as the psychological issues such as nightmares and so on. You see people walking dogs and the dogs urinating everywhere, not to mention that it's like going through an obstacle course avoiding dog **** at times. On top of that there will always be attacks by dogs on people. Is it worth it? Not for me. Not for this young lad either.
If any of these attacks had been made by a collie or a german sheperd, would there be calls for the whole breed to be banned or made extinct?
And both examples given can inflict a lot of damage, let me tell you.
Calling for all pits to be destroyed or simply all bull breeds to be made extinct is over the top.
That's my opinion on the subject and it's not for turning.
Quite shockingly, there is no offence under Irish law regarding a dog attacking a person.
The Control of Dogs Act, 1986 (Section 9 and 27) makes it an offence to have an uncontrolled dog in a public place, and the penalty is "a fine not exceeding £500, or, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month, or, at the discretion of the court, to both such fine and such imprisonment." But that's just for failing to have the dog under your control in a public place, not for it attacking anyone. And it doesn't apply if the dog is on the owner's property, or any place that the owner has been given consent to have the dog in. And even then, the maximum prison sentence is one month.
Here's a case from earlier this year where a dog mauled a child in the home of the dog owner. The Gardaí refused to investigate it at all, as under the Act, there was no offence committed - the dog was in the owner's home, and the Act specifically doesn't apply there.
In April this year, a review of the legislation regarding the control of dogs was published after a public consultation https://assets.gov.ie/224384/48b7f6a9-be34-4f27-9be6-d3b65ec77109.pdf
There's absolutely no mention of any changes to the penalties for not having a dog under control or for having a dog that attacks a person.
Just looked at the Mirror website. Unbelievable, words fail me. Can only hope the young lad recovers.
IMO, these dogs should be banned with draconian penalties for owners.
But MY liddle Shnookums wouldn't harm a fly.
there is no need for breeds to be kept at all that are capable of such damage and have the inflicting of such damage as a notable breed trait.
the restricted dogs list doesnt go half far enough, there's just no case for breeding these dogs at all
Those type of breeds should be destroyed and made extinct.
Owner should be charged as if they personally attacked the child. Deplorable.
Punish the deed, not the breed.
Not all pit bulls are savage, they are a product of their environment.
I do conceed they can be dangerous in the wrong hands of the wrong owners. Which this dog obviously was, and I agree that it was the correct action to have this dog pts.
I hope the poor child recovers and gets all the help they are going to need.
The owner left the dog roam the estate after the first attack. No words. I saw the picture of the poor boy. Dreadful.
Thats true but pitbull attacksspecifically are associated with far worse injuries. Say in the US in 2021, there were 430 deaths from dog attacks and 185 were from pitbulls and another 40 were from pitbull mixes so over 50% of deaths associated with one breed.
The breed was designed as a breed trait to deal out max damage when they attack and I'm sure they could be great pets with a responsible dog owner but there in lies the problem.
I was recently out on a run, and came across an offlead pitbull. I don't have any fear of dogs but it was very unnerving as it ran about investigating the environment/people/other dogs as the owner was turned away talking to someone. Nothing happened at all in fairness, but making everyone around you on edge while they use public spaces is hardly fair.
It's not just pitbulls though. The amount of cases where people are sure their dog would never attack anyone and guess what happens.
Whatever the offence under Irish law that such an owner could be charged with and whatever the maximum penalty is, it won’t come anywhere close to justice for this poor lad
so do the gardai if that's the case
The same dog attacked another child a few days earlier, who luckily didn't end up with same life threatening injuries. Case reported to the Gardai but sadly the dog was not put down until after the second attack. The owner has a lot to answer for
Some dog owners should have been drowned at birth.
The Irish Indo decided not to publish a photo of his injuries...but the Irish Mirror have it on their website.
It's horrific.
I absolutely hate seeing these types of dogs.
Sickening..
Dangerous dog's owners would be better title for the thread. Imo
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