Off leash parks - what's with people?!

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Originally Posted by trilinearmipmap

In my opinion savage "macho" dogs like Rottweillers, Pit Bulls etc should be banned. No they are not harmless, please do not put my children at risk by owning a dog breed with a documented history of killing and maiming people.

It's the thinking of people such as yourself that give certain breeds of dogs their "macho"(as you so elliquently put it) status.

If you had done the smallest bit of reaserch into this subject you'd realize that a bann should be placed on irresponsible ownership and NOT on a specific breed in general.

Fact of the matter is that in places where these banns have been put in place the incidence of attacks on humans(By the banned breed.) has dropped, but only because the breed is no longer there. These numbers are soon up with other breeds becoming the attackers.(Because people are going to have dogs, wether others like it or not.)

Do you remember when Dobermans where the bad ones? That's only because the breed was very popular. Now you hear very little(If anything at all about them.).

I've had around and owned Rottweilers and Sheaperds for my entire life and can tell you that yes there are some that should not be kept as pets. But most of these are a result of poor ownership and training rather than poor breeding. (I'm not saying that breeding does not play a role either.)

The problems we see are more to do with poor ownership, inadaquate housing and most of all lack of training. All of these problems are dwarfed when you have people keeping multiples of any large breed dog running around their property and calling them family pets. (Did you ever hear of a pack? Contrary to popular beliefes after thousands years of breeding they still have a very strong pack instinct, large or small breed.)

What is needed is some laws with bite to make owners ultimately accountable for the actions of their dogs.

The caged Rottweiler in Jamie's post is a prime example of poor ownership and a dog that has not been socialized at all. What would expect from a person that has been kept in a room with minimal contact from the outside world? I can tell you that people that have lived much like this do not usualy have an impressive life history to say the least.

Should we bann all people of arabic decent from air travel? After all, they do have the highest doccumented history of terorist activities. I don't think you can put them all into one group because some of them where taught wrong.