Dangerous dogs act what do you think??

Question

With the recent news of the poor little girl who got killed by the dangerous dog, what do you think about the dangereous dogs act? Should there be one?? I think all dogs are not dangerous unless the person who owns them trains them up to be the way they are..... We have a problem around our area where Bull mastive dogs are being trained for dog fights...... What do you think!

Answer 1

Its not just the dogs and their owners I have seen people that their ignorance to be fearful creates stress on a canine that turns them more aggressive.

Answer 2

Having worked with dogs as a dog trainer and running a home dog boarding business, I can honestly say that I have had more problems with aggression from small dogs whose owners think it is acceptable for their dog to act in an aggressive manner because it is cute. I hate those people. The large dogs i deal with are normally so placid and very rarely have problems. I blame the owners no the dogs. A dog is what you make it not how it is born. Those poor pitbulls are only doing what they are being trained to do . If you look at the tragic case of the girl being mauled I am sure that the uncle has a lot to answer for. Its clear there is some kind of dog fighting racket going on round the area.

Answer 3

The problem with DDLs is that they are often written by people who know nothing about dogs, and they are also sometimes a quick, 'knee-jerk' reaction to something that happened.

My local DDL says that my dog is a DD if it should run after a kid on a bike, which means muzzles, DD signs and an extra $50,000 in insurance. What should happen is a fine for disobeying the leash law. What dog won't chase a kid on a bike? Makes the owner irresponsible, so give a fine, it DOESN'T make the dog viscious.

The police are allowed to shoot my dog dead in the street should one get out of the fence and they "think" it looks dangerous. The police know little or nothing about reading dog behavior and a scared dog may very well "look" dangerous to them. Despite offereings to have a list of dog people they can call in situations, and seminars about dog behavior, they are not remotely interested and don't care.

If an attack happens by a Dobie, they just want to ban that breed. Although, as you can see with the Mastiffs in your area, the thugs just use sme other breed. If it was by an unneutered dog, they want to pass laws making spay/neuter mandatory.

Look at the antidog laws in Louisville, Albuquerque, and LA county. Totally unreasonable and makes it almost impossible for a person to care for and breed dogs in a normal fashion. Won't have much impact on the thugs or irresponsible owners either. WHY does the government continue to think these people will run right in to comply with the laws???

If the clueless AC would ENFORCE the leash law, that would go a long way to solve the dog attack problem, not to mention overpopulation as well. One of the two attacks in L'ville was from dogs that the seniors center had been calling AC about for almost a year! *MAYBE* AC needs to spend LESS time checking for approved toys, an empty food dish, and the reproductive status of dogs, and start ENFORCING the EXISTING leash laws.

Slap a $200-300 fine (or community service) and a court appearance for a wandering dog. SURE wouldn't be popular, so the politicians would not go for it, but people SURE AS HELL would get the message quickly!

GET THE DOGS OFF THE STREETS! We don't need more selectively enforced anti-dog laws that mainly affect responsible owners.



LKC has a good point. Many attacks happen because the children aren't supervised. Kid wanders into the neighbors yard or kid is left unsupervised with the families dogs. In this day and age, kids have no business wandering the neighborhood, where are the parents? People that leave young kids unsupervised with dogs have fully bought into the furbaby/Disney version of animals, where everyone loves everyone and is happy, happy, happy.


Kelly - Steroids can cause a dog to be more aggressive. Dogs that are taken away from their dam/littermates at so young an age tend to have aggression problems as well, they don't learn how to socialize nor do they learn bite inhibition. If your dog had learned bite inhibition it maybe would have just been a nip instead of an all out bite. The kid should have been properly taught to not run up to strange dogs.

Answer 4

I dont think its the dogs faults , the owners have alot to do with their dogs behaviour , some people buy a specific breed to look macho and train it accordingly purely for an ego trip and its not fair on the dog and when it does do something to a child the whole breed become tarnished with the same brush .. There has been a dog in my family from the day i was born til now and so far there has never been any incidences with them . Most dogs are pets and should be treated accordingly . The other dogs , security and guard dogs should be treated with respect and possible kept separate from a family establishment ,they aren`t pets they are trained to attack .

My next door neighbours cat is more vicious than my dog !

Answer 5

I agree with Miriam in that they should be judged on the behavior and not the breed. And they should also penanlize the owners that raise them to be dangerous dogs. I know that I'm saying this as an owner of a dog that could be dangerous. My German Shepard is a very aggressive dog but we have taken precautions to keep her away from people in the neighborhood. We just built a 6 ft fence to keep her in during the day while my husband and I are at work. and then we keep her in the house when we are home. She is with us at all times (on a leash) if out of the yard. But if she were to get out and hurt someone I would feel horrible and would not hesitate to have her put to sleep. But if she did do something I wouldnt want every German Shepard owner in my state to be punished because of my dog. That wouldnt be fair. They may have great GS (not that mine isnt great) that wouldnt hurt anyone and then if the pass some dumb law saying they are dangerous because they are GS then those people would be punished for just having that breed. That would be dumb.

Answer 6

I believe that the law currently states that owners should take responsibility for their animals and I think thats the way it should stay. If I read the article correctly the dog that killed the girl had already been reported to the council twice once for barking and also for attacking another dog.
With owning pets comes responsibility, it does not depend on the breed necessarily, I agree that some breeds have more of a tendency to behave aggressively but under good ownership this is less likely to happen. My friend owns a doberman and he is supposedly a "dangerous breed" yet he is one of the sweetest and friendliest dogs I have met

Answer 7

I dont like the idea of this at all the poor dogs are being trained to behave this way and getting abd names, and what happens to the oerson training them to behave this way nothing maybe a fine or just not being able to own an animal for a certain amount of months while the dog is getting the bad name and getting put to sleep it's not fair at all. I feel the same should happen to the owner at least a good amount of jail time

Answer 8

no bull mastiff is being trained to fight i think the dangerous dog act is a form of discrimination why don't we start a dangerous human act and put the most dangerous groups of people in this groups more humans are killed every year by certain groups of people each year than dogs do in a hundred years we could lower the crime on the streets by over 80%if we started a dangerous human act but we don't. you know why because it would be unconstitutional so politicans can stick that dangerous dog act up their a ss

Answer 9

I think it would be good if potential owners were somehow screened and not allowed to own a dog if they were seen as unfit by the test. However, I don't see this happening in reality.

I agree that it is 99% down to the owner, and people make the mistake of getting a dog for the wrong reasons.

Answer 10

I had a wonderful dog that i raise from 4 weeks old
He was an Akita Chow mix. He slept with me and my husband and sometimes the kids every night.( great family dog) when he was about 11 months old he weighed almost 90 pounds and developed bad allergies(He scratched his belly to no end ) The vet put him on Cortisone. The allergy went away . within 10 days of taking Cortisone I was taking my dog for a walk and a kid ran up to pet my dog (he has played with my dog before) my dog got startled and stood up on two legs and began mauling this kids lips off. I pulled the dog and kid apart tied the dog to a porch ran back to the kid (the whole thing lasted seconds) the kid needed over 100 stitches in his face and plastic surgery...I got the dog put to sleep...this happened 15 years ago and I still have traumatic daydreams of that day....oh Cortisone is a Steroid, I wish I would have known that

Answer 11

do you therefore think that the answer is to issue animal licences for owners ensuring that they go through a brief training course first? i think this would clear up a lot of other issues including animal cruelty aswell...and that if the dog does something to harm another animal or human that the owner should pay compensation?

i personally think that the dangerous dogs act is not enforced properly with known vicious breeds not complying by wearing safety equiptment like muzzles where necessary.