A cat bite can be lethal
I think I’m missing something here. What is ‘skyrocketing’, which dog is attacking it, and what causes him to see it as an unrecognised public health crisis?
People talking Rott while a faction push for terrier ble solutions.I think this thread has peked now.
You should be hounded out of here for jokes like thatPeople talking Rott while a faction push for terrier ble solutions.
That may be normal with cats but not ok for dogs. Dogs need to know their owner is the pack leader or there will be all sorts of problems. And dogs need to be socialised with other dogs from a young age: imagine how humans would act if kept in solitary confinement until adult...
Average of 3 deaths a year.The attacks and deaths keep happening. This one is especially shocking: https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/12/man-34-mauled-to-death-by-dog-in-daylight-attack-in-park-17172239/
A 34-year-old man mauled to death in a park.
I'm always wary of dogs in parks. Off the lead, running wild.
An explosion of puppy buying during lock down. In urban areas the pavements can barely take the loading of dog turds, they are absolutely everywhere. One of our neighbours has taken in a large untrained dog and it has waged war on neighbouring dogs with barking at dawn and just now at 23:00. She tried to persuade it to come in from the garden earlier by taking its collar and it let her know in no uncertain terms it wasn’t ready to come in yet so she tried giving it a massage to persuade it, ie rewarding it for its dominance. She’s number three in the pecking order behind it and her own dog. It looks like a matter of time before it bites her.Surely it's the dog owners the issue is with rather than the dogs themselves?
I've noticed a lot of recent cases are American Bulldogs or the "XL" variety whatever they are, I wonder how frequently the list of banned breeds is updated...
Five in a house. Jeez. No wonder it proved fatal.
No different to a pack of wolves when you get that many together; i've seen the start of pack behaviour in just two dogs at times.