This is quite simple to do.
Look, here's the OP's first opening salvo:
Thus, the conversation is defined. We will be covering the following topics:
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Now, if the OP had started the thread as follows:
Then of course your continued trolling about incontinent, blood thirsty dogs mauling children would be perfectly acceptable.
Tripe and you know it.
I didn't enter this thread until page 6 post #83.
The first reference to child mauling was #72.
Long before I entered the thread, the conversation had strayed far from just dogs and puke, to encompass (at least) Cats, Guinea Pigs, Pigs, Humans, Wives, Crows, Rooks, etc.
And the following posts could all be seen as not only outside of the 'dogs/puke' frame of reference, but even anti-dog/owner' in some way or other: #6, #9, #20, #31, #50, #53, #58, #64, #66,#68,#72. And that's only how far I got before I got bored/had enough evidence.
Yet you pick on me to call a troll, simply because I persist in trying to get dog owners to admit that 'dog mauling' deaths are an issue.
That's all it takes, but you all would rather just argue that mauling doesn't kill as many people as cancer, or RTAs, etc. Well of course it doesn't but that does not mean there is not an issue.
How hard is that to understand?
IIRC, the Dog License, was scrapped in 1987. We still had dogs then and paid for licences conscientiously.
OK, the old License scheme was pathetic, but IMHO we need something now.
I would argue that all dogs should be:
1. Licenced
2. Registered to a specified owner/address.
3. Chipped.
I would further argue that some form of dog/owner training should be at least considered as a requirement on first registration of a dog.
Might seem draconian, but if you think about it, as well as minimisiing the 'casual/inapppropriate' ownership of dogs by idiots, it would also improve the welfare of dogs, improve security and improve traceability of stolen mutts.
And.. those of us who choose not to keep dogs might feel that we are also being considered.
Mull