Having just read of yet another incident in which a small child has been killed by a vicious dog I am wondering just when the heck our politicians are going to get serious about doing something to stop these totally unnecessary and horrendous deaths. Children being killed by savage dogs – it should not be happening, it should not be tolerated and the owners of these creatures should be sent to prison.
Dogs such as pitbulls, mastiffs, akitas – they do not belong in suburbia and neither do the idiots who own them. The problem lies not only with the fact that these dogs were bred for killing and possess the attack instinct to a far higher degree than your poodle or labrador, but mostly with the fact that they appeal to the moron-element in society; men who think a large uncastrated, untrained and uncontrollable dog somehow makes them look tough…think again fools. These tragedies occur because people own them who have not the slightest notion about canine psychology or behaviour. They have no idea about training or control which is why when their dog attacks they either run for the hills themselves (the cowards) or simply stand back unable to control their dog. This is negligence of an astonishing kind.
And before anyone points out the usual dross of ‘all dogs can bite or attack’…yes we know they can. But the jaws of a poodle are not designed by nature to be steel vices, a dachsund does not weigh several stones of muscle and bone. A labrador was not bred to see other creatures – human or animal – as prey. The laws are nowhere near tough enough on irresponsible owners – I cannot shoot a person for simply waling into my yard without going to prison but I am not prosecuted if my dog tears the postie’s leg to pieces as he was on the dogs ‘territory’… this has to change. Nothing will help poor little Ayen Chol, the 4 year old Sudanese girl in Victoria, Australia, who was mauled to death in her own home by a neighbour’s pitbull/mastiff cross (now there’s a lovely combination eh…?) after it chased her cousin into her own home. There are very few more terrifying ways to die.
Time to rid suburbia of these horrible mistakes of nature. Time to make muzzling of ALL dogs in public places compulsory. Time to enforce dog owners to undertake compulsory dog control training. Time to make it impossible for anyone to buy and own a dog classified as dangerous…and we know which dogs they are. Just like hand guns, in the hands of the wrong person a dog is a weapon with the ability to kill, some dogs more so than others. And just as some people have a fascination with handguns, some people have a fascination – a sick need – for animals designed and bred to inflict hideous injury and death. These dogs and their owners – in my opinion society can do without both.
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