NOT AGAIN!! A child mauled by a dog and another child with “life changing” injuries. I guessed a Staffordshire Bull Terrier. Did I guess right? Of course, I did!! I’d have been surprised if the killer dog had been a Golden Retriever or a Cocker Spaniel.
All the BS, “It’s not the dog’s fault, it’s the owners” – there are Golden Labradors who have irresponsible owners but they aren’t known as child killers. There are plenty of Red Setters who have irresponsible owners but I don’t think I’ve read about a Red Setter mauling a child to death. It’s almost always a Staffordshire Bull Terrier.
Let’s be honest, I’m not one to judge a book by its cover but you do only have to look at some of the owners of these dogs to see why they have one – it’s a macho ‘thing’ – the dog is a weapon. The dogs are rarely muzzled in public so there’s no way that they are muzzled in their homes.
If you aren’t one of those brainless sorts who has a Staffordshire Bull Terrier as a weapon, why would you have one. There are so many other breeds to choose from and so many ‘non breeds’ in cat and dog shelters who need a home – why pay however much it is to someone who is breeding these animals?
Any dog can attack, any dog can act out of character, however much we love our dogs, we must always be aware that any dog can ‘snap’. It can’t be denied, however, that Staffordshire Bull Terriers ‘snap’ more than other breeds – more precisely, they don’t ‘snap’ – ‘snap’ implies acting out of character. It seems to me, and it is only in my humble opinion but it is based on evidence and my understanding of the evidence, it seems to me that when these Staffies (a loveable nickname which does not change the fact that these dogs kill people!!), when they maul a child to death, they are not acting out of character, that there is something sinister in their make up which predisposes them to kill.
Why someone with young children would choose to bring a Staffordshire Bull terrier into their home is completely beyond me – would these people give a rattle snake to a child as a pet? Would these people put their toddlers in a bath with a few piranhas? Would these people buy some Black Widow Spiders for their toddlers to cuddle in bed at night? Maybe….
How many more children will die agonising, horrendous deaths in the jaws of these dogs before the British Government takes action? Think about it, children, in agony, terrified beyond the imagination, screaming while being mauled by a slavering Staffordshire Bull Terrier!!! This latest attack, a child dead and one left with ‘life changing injuries’ – I dread to think what those injuries might be!!!
Breeding and owning/possessing these dogs should be illegal and if you have one and it injures or kills someone, you should be dealt with by the criminal justice system as if you, yourself, had caused the maiming or death.
October 14, 2016
Horses and Cows kill more people a year that dogs of any breed do, do we ban them as well ?
October 18, 2016
No, we don’t. I will read up on the breed and check the stats etc and I’ll comment again after I have done it. Thanks for your reply/response.
October 14, 2016
May I ask that people who have no experience of certain breeds of dog refrain from having an opinion on them. Not one so called eye-witness could categorically state what breed of dog it was and here you are condemning all Staffordshire bull terriers to death. Anyone who hasn’t got education or experience of handling dogs shouldn’t have an opinion.
October 18, 2016
Hi, I read that the breed was a Staff but I did then hear, after I posted this blog, that it was a ‘mix’, a Staff and another breed. I will do some more reading and will check stats etc and then I’ll comment again. I admit that I did shoot my mouth off (via the blog) when I heard about the attack – it upset me so much and I have no doubt that it upset you as well. I said to myself when I heard about the attack, “It’ll be a Staffordshire Bull Terrier” and I wasn’t surprised, therefore, when I heard that it was (though, as I have said, I now hear that it was only part Staff). I think, though I will check, as I said, the stats, but I do think that whenever I hear of such attacks, it always seems to involve a Staff – I can’t remember hearing of Labradors or Cocker Spaniels mauling children though I have no doubt that they do happen. I’ll leave the blog up otherwise I won’t be able to post again on it when I have read up on the subject. Thanks for the post.
October 14, 2016
As a multi dog owner and kennel manager I can tell you with upmost authority that Staffordshire terriers don’t bite folk anymore than any other breed
Infact it’s less golden retriver labs and collies will bite you more but alas there is a media bias promoted here
Its a case of respecting the animal in front of you and not provocation picking up small dogs screaming
Pulling the dogs tails ears and the like
I can say that I respect any dog but singling out a breed nope it’s counterpoint to racism
October 18, 2016
Thanks for the post. I will read up on the breed, the stats, the allegations/accusations against the breed and the responses. I’ll post again when I have done it.
October 14, 2016
As a multi dog owner and kennel manager I can tell you with upmost authority that Staffordshire terriers don’t bite folk anymore than any other breed
Infact it’s less golden retriver
October 18, 2016
Thanks for the post. I will read up on the breed, the stats, the accusations against the breed and the responses to the accusations. I’ll post again when I have done it.
October 14, 2016
The only thing that should be made illegal is the rantings of the uneducated.
October 18, 2016
I concede that I may be wrong and that my jumping to the blog judgement was premature (though I don’t think that my blog, however incorrect the view I have put in the blog might be, I don’t think it should be ‘illegal’). I was so upset, as I’m sure you were, when I heard about another dog attack on children and I did think when I heard the news that it would be a Staff – I heard not longer afterwards that it was a Staff but I heard after I posted the blog that it was a mix, only part Staff. I will read up one the breed, I’ll check the stats and I’ll read the responses to the allegation made against the breed. When I have done that, I will post again. Thanks for the post (I’ll leave the blog up so that I can respond/post again on the subject).