It has just been reported that yesterday afternoon there was yet another dog attack. Apparently 2 children were attacked by the same dog in separate incidents yesterday afternoon. It has been reported as a staffordshire bull terrier.

Yes luckily they are not badly hurt. The dog if it is the same one had been missing since New Years Eve.

I was glad to see in the paper tonight that the father of the boy who was bitten said he blames the owners not the dogs and he has bred staffies himself and the wee boy was posing in the pic with his own pet staffy.  I'm starting to think there is the dog equivalent of full moons as all the attacks happen in clusters and then nothing is heard for ages.

I think it's more likely that people get bitten every day, but it's not newsworthy. Then when there's a terrible incident of someone dying suddenly all dog attack stories become 'hot'.

I was watching the local news yesterday and they were reporting that a women had been attacked by a bullmastiff, the dog had killed her jrt and then attacked her. She is wanting the owner of the dog to have it pts.

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I agree these things go on every day and only when something tragic happens they come to light and there is a media frenzie. The next big news item it will be forgot about. I do hope that something good can come of it though. Even if it means all the bad owners realise this and hand their dogs over to the relevant places. It may result in a huge cull which is sad but I would rather that than every dog tarred with the same brush.

Problem is we could sort this problem out and then some idiot would creat or import some other breed and it could all start again. Whos to say in a couple of years time all these labradoodles could turn nasty due to the bad breeding. Ok a bit extreme but do you see were I am coming from

Wendy

>Whos to say in a couple of years time all these labradoodles could turn nasty due to the bad breeding.

Spot on. Any type of dog that becomes popular is subjected to the activities of the 'jump on a bandwagon' type of breeder, who're happy to churn out puppies to fill a manufactured niche in the market. Hollywood films are very guilty of this ("Lassie", "Rin-tin-tin" (for those of us old enough to remember), "1001 dalmatians" umpteen times, "Turner and Hooch", "Beethoven", "Incredible Journey" ... the list goes on) plus TV advertising ("Dulux dogs", "Andrex puppies" etc etc) and any bitch and any dog vaguely resembling the 'stars' are put together regardless of quality and there's your problem.

'Labradoodles' are one in a line of timebombs.

I agree that whatever the current fashion is for dogs, the dogs will suffer as happened with afghans, gsds and others and now it may be the labradoodles turn. BUT I still think that a bad labradoodle may well bite someone but is unlikely to kill them (IMO), Neither poodles or labradors have been bred for centuries to fight so I think we'll be ok :D