Why Dogs Attack - Rather Interesting Article

Get a cat. I love them. They're independent, loveable, fickle, definitely has a mind of it's own, very intelligent, sneaky, a great lap warmer, loyal, entertaining.... they make great pets.

Oh! And you don't have to take them for a walk - they take themselves and will go back home when they're ready too.... lol.

 

I have scars on my right leg from an incident about twenty years ago. I had a cat for about fifteen years, one evening he got perturbed and jumped on my leg and proceeded to chew me up...I had to go to the emergency room, my leg swelled up like a football...

 

OMGAWD! Sorry to hear that! Cat Scratch Fever is nothing to dinker around w/and it sounds like you may have had that.......

Did your cat have a nice funeral?

 

Cats make the best pets...or should I say, humans make the best pets for cats.

 

My sister has a scar on her chin from where her cat clawed her. She put him right up to her face, and he got scared and lashed out. Cat got into trouble even though he was defending himself. Sister got pampered.

 

My brother has a pit bull and a black lab. Pit bull is lovable most of the time. She is very affectionate; sleeps in their bed; loves to cuddle and very protective. However, she is dog aggressive. My brother thinks it is because she was attacked by 2 mastiffs when she was a puppy. She required over 100 stitches. She gets along very well with the black lab; even shares food dishes. Only aggression between our minpipn and the pit bull was over food or a ball. The aggression was snarling and snapping, but never any blood drawn. There is always competition between the minpin and pit bull for my affection, but never in an aggressive way.
My $0.02: Pit bulls make excellent pets when the owner is the pack leader. My brother treats her very well and gives her plenty of exercise. In return, the pit bull is very responsive to my brother, his wife, his daughter, my wife and me. I trust the pit bull more than his daughter's springer which had to be put down for almost taking a chunk out of his daughter.

 

trusting any dog capable of killing a human is an error, leaving it alone with a child is a huge risk no one should take..."I don't understand it he/she's never done that before" is the words you hear often when some child has been killed...

in an earlier post I mentioned a family whose infant was killed by a husky, a trusted member of the family, defenders of aggressive large breeds will say that the owners didn't train their dog properly, but the owners were professional sled dog trainers...they had an older child that never had a problem with the dogs but without provocation a trusted dog decided out of the blue to kill the newborn... http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/family-dog-kills-newborn-boy-139501853.html ...this demonstrates regardless how strong your trust is you can never fully trust a dog...

no doubt if this was a pit-bull which had done the killing some forum members would claim it was a media rumor and mistaken identity, but since it was a husky no one will question the media reports

 

As well leaving a loaded gun lying about for kids to play with IMHO. That breed is know here as "drug dealer dogs".

I have a friend over 6'2 and built like a tank, combat trained, arrest trained, criminal investigator for 30 years, a sailor in his spare time on his own yacht and overall big tough man. He retired and became the local gardener in the yacht marina where he lives, so a very very active and fit and strong guy. He was in the garden and heard screaming. His neighbour had 2 pit bulls and one attacked her 17 yr old son. They were both trying to fend it off the boy. My friend was holding a rake and he did get it off the boy, but it turned on him. He managed to force it into a bedroom and shut the door on it. It was eating its way through the door when the Police appeared.

Everyone survived it. My friend went to the hospital with two broken arms.

They said the heat drove the dog mad. Personally, I don't care what made it mad...

 

Yes, but the story is if someone attacks you with a Jack Russell you've had it. Whereas with a Gordon Setter you've got a fighting chance of sorts.

I like walking the big dogs if they're well trained. It is a down side of small dogs that you feel unprotected. I don't walk up in the hills alone for days the way I used to with the big dogs.

The people who say the dog is what its master is, are quite wrong. It may be the case most of the time, but my lab won first place in dog obedience while a couple of years on the setter had to leave the class on account of his highly strung disposition. We were able to train him to a degree, but dogs have personalities and attitudes just like people. The setter displayed intelligence many times, he just didn't like company.

 

After doing a little digging:

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And from one of the comments:

But I do agree, children and dogs should never be left alone together.
And, yes, just like people, some are vicious. But I do believe that some "vicious" dog attacks are due to a misunderstanding.

 

so this family friend is a dog psychologist? and after interviewing the dog explained the unfortunate misunderstanding? ...and the owner supposed expert/trainer is also not as expert as they claim, their "dog whisperer/psychoanalysis expertise" is nothing more than self delusion as their child is dead after all...their child is dead they'll search for any excuse to avoid blame in order to cope with the loss and their error in judgement...

as has been pointed out problem dogs are usually dog aggressive or human aggressive( sometimes both) but until that first incident occurs there is no way of knowing which...

and what's really weird with particular incident, like those women who think they can reform serial killers and rapist prisoners, there were numerous offers to adopt the dog to save it from being destroyed...it was destroyed...

 

my daughters walk our Border Collie in the wooded parks I'm a little apprehensive when they do so but being a mutant size BC at 60lbs we keep him shaved so he looks like a cross between a Greyhound and a small doberman... he's intimidating, super smart bugger too...

 

cats don't back from walks in my neighborhood, they end up as coyote snack food...

 

LMAO...a baldie collie? Pics pics please.... They'd be ok with a border collie, they can be fierce defensive when they want to be.

 

I don't know how to attach a pic of my dog but here is a shaved BC, mine would have an all black face and more heavily muscled like a doberman

 

I have finally found someone mastering in the art of fighting dogs, or Dog-fu, who apparently teaches for free.

There are on the same page other people explaining the theory behing dog anal probing, but the application of which is left at the user's discretion.

http://everything2.com/title/What+to+do+if+a+big+dog+attacks+you

 

On a first visit to a friends house we were only seated and talking a few minutes when I was bitten on the ankle by her Chihuahua. When she realized what had happened she said; Well you're sitting in his chair!

 

I love dogs. I have four of them right now and have had dogs my whole life. There are many factors as to why a dog may attack. Usually aggressive dogs are made that way by bad owners. Some breeds are naturally more aggressive and need a little more focus when they are young to help curb some of their instinctual behavior.

For the most part dogs instincts are not to be aggressive but if they feel fearful or helpless they will become aggressive.

I have two large dogs, a doberman(105lbs) and a pitbull mix(85lbs), both of them are the nicest most loving dogs I have had. On the other had my little dogs are far more defensive because they need to stand their ground against my large breeds.