Stupid people & dangerous dogs thread

[Zarkov]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/1034...ter-dog-attack

"The vicious attack also came just days after the boy's father Orlando Shepherd posted a picture of the dog, which he called a pitbull, on his Facebook page with the status line: "Mess wif me il eat u alive...

Orlando, he knows about dogs.

Also:


A pitbull freed from the Napier dog pound after a community fundraising campaign has mauled a dog to death within days of being liberated. Dante, a 2-year-old red-nose pitbull, was caught by animal control officers late last month and was due to be put down on Monday, March 10.
His owner, Teressa Kati, 23, could not afford the $532.30 Napier City Council wanted for unpaid registration fees and desexing fees, so she took to Facebook to see if anyone would pay the fees and make him their own.
In a local newspaper article on March 14, she described Dante as "an absolute honey" who loved being cuddled and playing with her two kids, Fury-James, 4, and Lahtezia-Lust, 5.
Instead of offering Dante a new home, people donated money - enough for Kati to pay the fees.
Dante went to her sister's house in the Napier suburb of Maraenui and was put on a run in the back lawn, where another dog, a 7-month-old shar pei named Terror, was on a chain.
Dante got off his run on Thursday night and mauled Terror to death.
Terror's owner said his children witnessed the attack, which left the lawn covered in blood.
The man said he agreed to look after Dante because Kati already had a dog at her Housing New Zealand house and was not allowed another there.
"I was next door. By the time I got there, it was over.
"I watched my dog die and he [Dante] still wouldn't let go. He was trying to rip his head off. There was nothing I could do. I watched him have his last breath. To make it worse, my kids saw it all."
He said the children were "hysterical".
"My backyard is full of blood. My missus doesn't want to go out there. Dante shouldn't have been allowed out of the pound."
Animal control officer Dwayne McOnie said he found a "horrific, bloody scene" when called to the property shortly after 5pm. Dante was known to be aggressive, and his owner had been spoken to in the past.
He was seized on February 23 because he was not registered, had not been desexed within the required time, and was not microchipped.
Terror's body has been seized as evidence, pending a council decision on whether to prosecute Kati. Dante is back in the pound in the meantime.

[george formby]

Stupid people or dangerous dogs? Whats your point?

Another child has been mauled and another dog will be euthanised. A terrible thing.

[jasonu]

Who in their right mind calls their kids names like Fury-James, and Lahtezia-Lust?
Over here the Afros are known for putting 'La' or 'D' in front of ordinary names (eg LaMichael, D'Marcus) and also for coming up with crap like Shanequa, D’brickishaw and Barkevious D’quell
Looks like a bit on NZ monkey see (on some yank tv show) monkey do.

The pooch in the photo isn't pitbull, just a mix of god knows what was around at the time. The owner should receive a hefty find for her stupidity and ignorance plus she should be kicked out of her tax payer funded council house with no chance of another.
BTW Shapeis are not know as the worlds friendliest breed either.

[Flip]

So another child has been malled by another gang dog.

The only diference between a gun and those dogs is it is legal for children to play with the dog.

There should be a crime that goes something like "attempting to own a dangerous dog" and the facebook comment could be used as proof.

[PrincessBandit]

People with the wannabe gangsta mentality don't give a second thought to whether their life choices impact in a bad way on their kids or society - it's a completely self centred existence whereby they put their children at risk of serious injury/death, other people at risk of serious injury/death, other peoples' pets at risk of serious injury/death. They don't give a shit because their imitation badass image dog fits their own delusion of toughness.

They should be banned from ever owning ANY animal, and probably having kids too.

[Stirts]

FFS when will common sense prevail!!!

If you own a dog OF ANY BREED you train it, just like kids you can teach them right from wrong. And when the fuck did we stop teaching our kids how to behave and interact with dogs?

Once again humans not taking responsibility for their own fucking stupidity...makes me sick these kids and dogs are paying the price!

[jasonu]

People with the wannabe gangsta mentality don't give a second thought to whether their life choices impact in a bad way on their kids or society - it's a completely self centred existence whereby they put their children at risk of serious injury/death, other people at risk of serious injury/death, other peoples' pets at risk of serious injury/death. They don't give a shit because their imitation badass image dog fits their own delusion of toughness.

They should be banned from ever owning ANY animal, and probably having kids too.

Dead right. Yet they still manage to get themselves in cheap tax payer funded housing.

[Akzle]

we should be able to put down 'owners'.

[slofox]

And when the fuck did we stop teaching our kids how to behave and interact with dogs?

That was round about the same time we stopped teaching our kids anything...

[awa355]

People with the wannabe gangsta mentality don't give a second thought to whether their life choices impact in a bad way on their kids or society - it's a completely self centred existence whereby they put their children at risk of serious injury/death, other people at risk of serious injury/death, other peoples' pets at risk of serious injury/death. They don't give a shit because their imitation badass image dog fits their own delusion of toughness.

They should be banned from ever owning ANY animal, and probably having kids too.

Sums up these drongos nicely. I once asked a tidy looking young woman ( similar background to the Napier woman ) why she was wasting her time chasing a deadbeat doing 7 years in jail. She said, ' because he's hard and tough, and a tough strong man will fight for me and survive.' The idiot was doing time for various violent assaults, including attacking her.

Dumb dogs dumb owners.

[R650R]

I think it comes down to more how the dogs are treated than the breed. Some of these morons are prob feeding the animals p like the USAF does when they train them to be attack dogs.
There is a basketball court near my house, frequented there by all sorts on weekends.
There's one large family who had dog like the one in picture. seemed very agitated and they were making a game of it chasing their own kids
Nearly called the cops as it was clear they were training the dog to attack/chase people but I believe in the Darwin theory and had other stuff to do...

[BuzzardNZ]

I think it comes down to more how the dogs are treated than the breed.

True this. I had an English Bull Terrier cross Bulldog. She looked pretty scary but had a heart of gold and the only danger any person faced against her was being licked to death.

[Banditbandit]

And I had a Labrador - yeah one of them big dopey family friends - it bit at least six people during its life and today would probably have been put down ...

(It was a hunting dog, not a big sloppy family pet ...)

[bluninja]

FFS when will common sense prevail!!!

If you own a dog OF ANY BREED you train it, just like kids you can teach them right from wrong. And when the fuck did we stop teaching our kids how to behave and interact with dogs?

Once again humans not taking responsibility for their own fucking stupidity...makes me sick these kids and dogs are paying the price!

Whilst I agree with the sentiments and general point, the concept that dogs know right from wrong is not correct. I think ascribing morality and anthropomorphising dogs is one of the issues that leads to poorly behaved dogs.

Fido does not cower when you come in because he knows he ripped up the house whilst you were out. He cowers because he has learned (through repetition) what happens when you come through the door and your body language changes on seeing the mess.

[bluninja]

I think it comes down to more how the dogs are treated than the breed.

Yes and no....based on breeding some dogs have more developed drives that will tend to certain behaviours. Training can redirect those drives to more desirable behaviours but cannot eliminate the drives.

Thus police dogs tend to be from breeds with a high prey drive, the physical attributes needed, and a strong drive to please it's handler. The training just enhances what is naturally there. Despite the training there are regular occurrences of police dogs attacking people that are not the target of the chase, or not stopping immediately on command; probably due to the effect called "sensory narrowing" that occurs when prey drive is fully engaged.

Fighting dogs have high prey drive and dog to dog aggression. They are normally soft with humans....if not they rip into the handlers ...and get killed. Bad breeding for more and more aggression and you end up with high prey drive towards everything. Professional dog fighters are the scum of the earth as far as dog lovers go, but they do know what to breed and how to train them.