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Originally Posted by Dogghound  To me if your scared of a dog because its big you need to check yourself out. Owners are to blame, but also some of them species can be abit wild if they are owned by a clown who has no control. My dog is large totally harmless it amazes me how many people fear it, its hardly a wolf, i do actually find it immature at times. |
I'm not scared of dogs on the basis of size (we had boxers then Irish wolf hound when i was a kid) but some breeds do worry me - particularly those bred for fighting such as tosa and american pit bull.
a couple of years back i had a serious dust up with a pitbull - it was attacking a yorkie - i intervened and it went for me - I had a six cell maglight in my hand and a jacket round my arm but i still wound up with a hairline fracture in the radius, two broken fingers , a cracked rib , and pulled muscles in the abdomen - the yorkie needed 48 stiches to put it back together and the pitbull had to be shot dead by a police firearms officer.
That this was in a busy public place and it could just have easily been a child on a the recieving end doesnt bear thinking about.
To my mind dogs like this should be banned full stop not just from council housing.
however i wouldnt extend the ban to GSD or rhodesian ridgeback - though i do think these ought to be muzzled in public