Hartlepool man Garry Clark was left with serious facial injuries after his dog Bandit unexpectedly turned on him.Has this put him off?
The 46-year-old had taken five-year-old Bandit and his other Staffordshire bull terrier Tipsy for a walk at Grayfields recreation ground, opposite his home in Jesmond Gardens, when the incident happened.
Garry, who got the dog as a six-week-old pup, said: “I thought I could die.”
He was left with a flap of skin on his cheek “hanging off”, a severe injury to his lip, two wounds in his left temple, a two-inch gash to his throat and two half-inch wounds in both arms.
He had to have plastic surgery at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, where he received 96 stitches.
Unemployed Garry, who has had four Staffordshire bull terriers, added: “I would still recommend the breed because they are a lovely dog.”/facepalm
They may be no more likely to attack than any other dog, but the consequences, when they do attack, are clearly far more serious than with a chihuahua or a poodle.
Still, maybe you can recommend one to this lady?
Surgeons have been battling to save the savaged arms of a 61-year-old woman who suffered horrific injuries in a dog attack.
Neighbours yesterday gave harrowing accounts of hearing victim Linda Woodall’s screams as she was attacked by her pregnant friend’s bull terrier after she called in for a cup of tea at a house opposite her home in Thackeray Road, Ravenscliffe, Bradford.Perhaps poochy misunderstood the request ‘One lump or two?’..?
Neighbours, alerted by her terrified screams and her friend’s frantic yelling, said she lost part of one of her arms in the mauling.
About 50 people in the street ran to the house – some armed with garden spades and forks to try to fend the dog off on Wednesday night.Nice neighbourhood.
Or, maybe not?
A dog seized from the property was being examined yesterday to determine its exact breed and whether it is an American Pit Bull which is banned under the Dangerous Dogs Act.What a shocker, eh?
A man, 34, and a woman, 25, were arrested yesterday morning on suspicion of possession of an illegal animal and remained in police custody last night.
A quantity of cannabis plants was also taken from the house. A 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of the cultivation of cannabis. He also remained in custody last night.Lovely!
Inspector Tom Horner, of Airedale and North Bradford Police, said: “I want to reassure residents the animal involved has been seized by authorities.”In fact, it seems you’ve seized ‘animals’, plural!
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Dogs are weapons and should be licenced.
If the mutt needs to be examined by an expert then how are ordinary people supposed to ID them. Another stupid law.
On the plus side its usually an innocent victim that gets consumed by these dogs. Perhaps the punishment for having an out of control dog should be to be eaten by another one. We could televise it and recover the costs.
Yes Gallo, that's what we need, more government intervention. It's always the solution to every problem.
What about lengths of 4x2, house bricks, butter knives or lawn mowers (or pretty much anything sold by B&Q)? They could be used as weapons, should we also have licensing for those too?
What people fail to realise is dogs are pack animals. If you can't be the alpha dog, (this applies even if it's a labrador or Yorkshire terrier) you've no business owning a dog.
My Staffie occasionally tries it on with a bit of a challenge to me. He gets a slap and shoved into the floor. He rolls over into submission and I let him up giving him a bit of a fuss.
Woman on the field began shouting at me calling me cruel. I said "The difference is I can control my dog and it comes when I call it, my dog isn't dragging me down the road pulling at the lead and I aren't chasing after my dog calling "Come back Woofie" as it disappears over the horizon like that bloody thing of yours".
Another incident I recall from way back. I was sat outside the chippy with a mate, and along comes this young girl of about 11 my mate knew. She had this young Doberman (about 6mth old) on a lead and whacking it with a stick. I said "Don't be doing that, because it'll turn nasty". She said (No word of a lie) "Yeah, we had to have the last one put down because it turned nasty".
So Gallo, tell me how having to buy a dog licence from the post office will somehow cure idiot dog owners like in the 2 examples above?
Lord T, if a dog bites someone in a public place, let's just say it warrants investigation. If a stranger in my garden gets bitten by the dog, and they choose to ignore the "Beware of the dog" sign, in my view it's a case of "Tough shit" and it's their own stupid fault.
Follow ups set.
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Considering the injurys, could you not be a little more.....ironic?
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A bull terrier attacked my Jack Russell two years ago.
There was only ever going to be one outcome but the bull terrier pulled through after an emergency blood transfusion.
Dog owners are a bit like car drivers. Most drivers think that they are 'above average good' drivers when infact they are probably pretty crap like the rest of us.
Dog owners, particularly Brits, do tend to imagine that 1. they have and can keep control over their animals and 2. THEIR dog would NEVER...
They also like to believe that it's only the Stabby McChav's who have dogs that suddenly go batshit and kill for no apparent reason.
There is a lot of deluded waffle about 'responsible' owners and not penalizing them.
A dog is a wolf that has been bred to be a better killer.
People don't seem to understand that their pooch is infact a genetically engineered Killing machine.
The clue is in the name sometimes. Very often in the German name. The cute German Sausage Dog ('Badger Dog' in German) was bred that shape so it could go into dark holes and attack badgers. If you've ever seen a badger close up then you'll understand that a Dachshund has to be fucking psychotic.
The loveable St.Bernard? Wasn't bred to carry flasks of brandy around its neck. It was bred to kill wolves, bears and anything else stupid enough to attack the herd on the mountain pasture ('Mountain Pasture Dog' in German).
Rottweilers we still call 'Butcher's dogs' because they were re- bred (after having been bred to tear germanic tribes men apart) to pull carts! Heavy carts. You really want to argue with a killer that strong?
We took one of nature's killers and rebred it, honed it and then tickled its tummy.
Any dog can suddenly go batshit and kill. It's hardwired into their brains and genes.
The real wonder is that more of them DON'T go postal.
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Long, long ago, in the early history of doggy evolution (and several million years prior to the emergence of chav), the mouth department was already peerless in the flesh tearing and bone crushing departments.
Lovely pets.
Greencoat - my mother has one of those psychotic JRT bastards. I believe you! :D
SBC, I take your point, but dogs hunt in packs, singularly they aren't much good against man. Simply put man is taller, has opposable thumbs, fists and steel toe-capped boots. Another of my little utilised skills these days is the ability to "take out" guard dogs with my bare hands.
Your point though is valid, case in point a year or 2 back a local druggy dropped dead, they found him about 3 days later, his 2 jack russels had made a hell of a mess of the corpse!!
This is quite a regular occurrence, especially amongst old people who drop dead and that nice little pooch they have hasn't been fed for a day or 2.
"If the mutt needs to be examined by an expert then how are ordinary people supposed to ID them. "
The utter stupidity of Breed Specific Legislation...
"What people fail to realise is dogs are pack animals."
Some people seem to have trouble realising they're animals and not little people in fur coats!
"Considering the injurys, could you not be a little more.....ironic?"
:D
"There was only ever going to be one outcome but the bull terrier pulled through after an emergency blood transfusion."
SNORK!
"singularly they aren't much good against man."
I don't disagree. I worked with attack dogs that had been beaten and starved into psychosis and on their own they could have been bested by anyone with basic 'commando' skills (for want of a better phrase)...or a maglite (as was our want....or if they are really good on technique the dog's own lead.
I will never forget the look on the young rottweilers face when it found itself on the floor hog tied and muzzled with its own leash and the vet standing over it growling in a heavy afrikaaner accent:
"I am NOT taking any fecking shit from you puppy! Ik was vet to South African police dogs"
(the sort of dogs fed on raw Soweto-Meat)
But dogs, on the whole, when they do go postal don't attack full grown men (ie Pack leaders), they go for weak prey. Again that's hardwired into them.
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