well another idiot journalist blaming my breeds for all that is wrong in the world this artical has really got me pee'd off,,,, please read and give me your view on this idiot,,,

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/04/26/barking-up-the-wrong-tree-with-microchips/?rs

sorry but its really annoyed me,,, how totally narrow minded he has been here,,,

i have EBT's and a Rottweiler and really their as soppy as the day is long,, its reports like his that people read then look at me with my dogs in disgust,,, like i must be one of these kinds of people,,,,

i feel i am a responsible dog owner so why blame my dogs for all the wrong in the world ..

he says Staffies, Rotties and Bull Terriers - none of them banned - are as dangerous as unexploded bombs.

This is partly because they are usually in the wrong hands. The owners of these unlovable and potentially-lethal beasts are often as dangerous as their animals.

We've all seen their owners - sporting tattoos, Union Jack T-shirts over their ample stomachs and forbidding frowns - swagger down the street with one of these slavering weapons at the end of a short leash.

Read more: http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/04/26/barking-up-the-wrong-tree-with-microchips/#ixzz1td0lFcQv


So now what i should run out and get me union jack and a nice face tatoo to live up to what he thinks of owners of these breeds,,, Arrrrrgggggg makes me so mad,,, sick to death of being put in that stereo typical box by people like him,,, when in fact his statement regarding his own overweight labs is more true about my dogs than his perception of me as an owner of the breeds his slating here,

DREADFUL. Much as I agree that microphoning won't stop the irresponsible owner's dogs from attacking anyone, that article was totally over the top, unnecessary and uncalled for.

appalling reporting ! microphoning lol microchipping I think you meant

Wow, that's rude! I must admit Rotties and Staffies are not breeds I would want (though I do have a soft spot for EBTs thanks to the Incredible Journey book), I love my fluffy coated droopy eared spaniels. But I know plenty of lovely natured dogs of all 3 breeds, I would never make rude remarks about 'why would anyone want one!!' Grrr

I'm sorry but I don't consider him a 'journalist' all basic journalistic principles must have been thrown out of the equation when that was written. What an absolute idiot the man is. I'd love to know what the editor was thinking when this was allowed through. It is essentially a blog post expressing the man's one sided opinion. Very little balance or thought put into it- not one attempt was made to speak to anyone about these dogs- either in support of these breeds or those against them. That is NOT reporting, that is opinion writing.

I'm going to have to find the editor's email address to lodge a complaint.

>  please read and give me your view on this idiot,,,

I'm sorry I couldn't read much of that rubbish, I got as far as reading that his overweight labs 'are not dangerous' and then realised his head is shoved so far up his own backside he can't see the outside world.

As it happens I was doing a bit of research into dog-attacks only last night and came accros an incident where a retriever dismembered the leg of a baby and another one where a westie ripped part of the eyelid of a toddler off and the lab PUPPY that killed a baby....... People that can not see, no refuse to even acknowledge that ANY dog that has teeth in it's head has the potential to be dangerous WHATEVER the breed are living in ignorance and promoting the ignorance that leads people to beleieve it's OK to allow thier children unsupervised/wrong interactions with a dog if it isn't a 'dangerous' one.

The govement need not do anything other than enforce the current laws, if people like that pratt of a journalist actually used thier writing to EDUCATE owners with FACTS instead of continuing on with pathetic, useless breed hate and breed sterio types.

BSL is rubbish, it does not work and, along with the media, has only served to demonise breeds/types and make them MORE favourable to the people that shouldn't have any dog - the very people that cause dogs to be a danger.

Before any body starts with the 'big/powefull dogs can cause more damage than a small dog' or 'I'd rather be attacked by a little dog than a big dog'  - I have this to say I do not want to be attacked by ANY sized dog, I do not want my children to be attacked by ANY sized dog and I do not want MY dog - no matter the size, attacking or frightening anybody else.
If a dog is capeable of consuming bone - chewing up actual bones and eating them - it has a powerfull enough jaw to inflict seriuos wounds on an adult and fatal wounds on a child.

Dogs need to be OWNED responsibly, they need to be treated as DOGS, not status symbols (and that includes the young couples that get a husksy/mal becaue it looks good aswell as the idoits wanting a 'macho' image).

I'm sorry for ranting, I am in a bad mood today, and hearing of the tragic case of a 1 year old boy that was killed by the family dog as he was climbing on it has got to  me.

Nothing any govement insists upon is going to stop innocent children being hurt untill people wake up and realise that dogs are dogs. Even the loving bundle of fur you have curlded up at your feet is a DOG, it thinks like a dog, it acts like it's been trained to, but in the spur of the moment, under specific conditions, when it encouters something it has not been trained to deal with - it will act like a dog - shock horror, even fat labs are dogs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, I'm ranting with no purpose now. I may have a go at reading the article later but that sort of sensationalist ignorance is winding me up right now!

This is a good link, I found it on the replies to the article.
Seems a good spot to put it.
'The Anatomy Of a Dog Attack'

Before any body starts with the 'big/powefull dogs can cause more damage than a small dog' or 'I'd rather be attacked by a little dog than a big dog'  - I have this to say I do not want to be attacked by ANY sized dog, I do not want my children to be attacked by ANY sized dog and I do not want MY dog - no matter the size, attacking or frightening anybody else.
If a dog is capeable of consuming bone - chewing up actual bones and eating them - it has a powerfull enough jaw to inflict seriuos wounds on an adult and fatal wounds on a child.

Well said :-)

I read that article a few days ago, thankfully the majority of the replies were in condemnation of it.
The injustice and blind ignorance of such articles are becoming all to common nowadays, it's just gutter journalism at it's tub thumping best, hopefully he'll shuffle off, dragging his knuckles as he goes, and target another easy option, probably immigrants or single mothers next.  

Jeez aloo!

Another trash talk journo spouting uninformed, ignorant clap trap.

Really beyond belief.

I've linked in several Stafford clubs, the parent club and others, lets see what they have to say about this rubbish.

There has been a response from a reader, which has been printed by the same 'news' paper here

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/04/30/don%E2%80%99t-blame-the-dogs-blame-the-owners/

Well I couldn't read it all, I do not own any of those breeds but it still made me so cross that someone called that load of rubbish journalism.

On another note, what a beautiful looking stafford that they have used in the photo, clearly a well bred example of the breed, bet the owners wouldn't be too happy if they knew it's photo was being used like that, looks like it is show dog by the way it is presented.

I too wonder who that photo/Stafford belongs to labs

Just adding on the end
I own a staff I have tattoos and I may not have a skinhead(I have one side shaved)but have a nice socialable staff and I'm also a responible owner. It is bad that people are the cause of all our beautiful breeds having bad press AGAIN.
I will carry on trying to the best I can with her. Shame that the byb will not and that is the problem, as they just want rid to the person that has the money. And we now that it will go round and round in circles.

Nessa

Mastifflover, thank you very much for the link to "Anatomy of a Dog Attack" - it should be required reading for all owners, (and even for all (real) journalists writing about attacks).  I'm passing the link on to other owners I know, hope that's ok. So often the poor dog pays the ultimate price for its owner's ignorance. 

I've often wondered whether attacks on the children of a dog-owning family are the dog's attempt at disciplining what it regards as an out-of-order puppy - the injuries, while severe to human eyes, seem usually much less so than might have been expected from an animal capable of eating bones.  JMHO :-)