Here's another small quote about dogs and Sudan, asked by someone in Sudan. The answer is also revelaing.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090526213338AApWxT6

"I know that there are most important issues to worry about like poverty, injustice, wars, human rights etc..
but i cant stand this everyday image in the streets of sudan, people are afraid of dogs and many of them beat them ..
i saw burnt dogs with rabish, dead dogs, skinny hungry dogs, many sudanese people throw stones to them to make them go away.
Many of them think that dogs are dangerous and will bite them but this is not an excuse from my experience with dogs no dog will attack someone without reason."

Sounds a lot like what I was saying, doesn't it?

Have you ever known a dog to just rush out and bite someone? I haven't. I've never known a dog that would enter a stranger's home without the owner being present or some form of inducement being offered. While the particular dog was obviously one of the more aggressive breeds, even pitbulls don't do this sort of thing.

I would almost guarantee that what has happened is that the dog has showed up (poor ownership) and the mother has freaked out, calling the kids to her and urging them to hurry. The older child may have tried to "tell the "bad doggie" to go away, or thrown stuff at it, causing the dog to react. A dog that size doesn't even have to be serious to do a child serious injury.

Nearly all dog attacks occur when people enter the dog's territory. It is very unusual for this sort of thing to occur and begs the question about what contributed. why do people find this sort of analysis so confronting?

So rabies is a significant problem. The smart thing for someone living in a country where rabies is prevalent is to avoid dogs that show any form of aggression.....and I support those views complicity to the point, regardless of what is, and that isn't:) and thank-you all for the up-pences that this very difficult subject requires.

The point still stands:)

One lump or two.....and don't forget that five mile jog...with mans best friend:)

Enjoy your the PET that doesn't eat you...lol.....and don't forget your MORNING doggy bag:)....

lol....and the day is balanced once again:)

LEAP

Just a small piece from News Limited, which confirms what I suggested above

http://www.news.com.au/national/pitbull-owners-stood-back-and-watched-it-attack-ayen-chol-claim-family/story-e6frfkvr-1226117867049

"The family, which came to Australia in 2004, is seeking answers on why the dog was not controlled. It got into Ayen's house after threatening two of her relatives standing in the driveway. They panicked and ran inside, and the dog followed them into the sitting room."

As I said...

The only thing I'd add is that I doubt the dog was "threatening" anyone until the kids ran away and made a commotion. It's tragic, but it could have been so easily avoided, even after the dog got loose. I have no concern about my children and dogs because they have been properly educated to understand what to do. Sadly, I doubt that these kids have ever had anything at all to do with dogs, except to be told to run away if they see one, which is precisely the wrong thing to do.

I would dearly love to see a proper education program for kids and dogs. Teaching children to deal safely with dogs is not hard and it's not complex. It beats me why we seem so reluctant to take it on when we seem quite happy as a nation to spend money on many less useful things.

"The family, which came to Australia in 2004, is seeking answers on why the dog was not controlled. No poo Ant-man! When did this brilliant peace of Scotland yard detective work, come into our livings rooms!......I mean..."Holy sh!t!.....do you think the Queen's in-breeds are any thing better!? .....of course not:) its sill a f/can/dog! isn't!.......lol...look:) we all feel for any dog aback...where ever its comes from...., but its still the owners responablity, and the childs safety is all of our concern.



LEAP.

People forget that fences were developed to keep things out, as much as in. Perhaps our fencing needs a second thought, we should never have kids suffering dog attacks.

However, there is one thing here I find very annoying.

Just a quick look at the posters will show those most against dogs, because, we assume, of the injury they can cause, are the very ones against others who are injured by wild animals.

Yes they are the ones who expect people to live with hendra virus carrying fruit bats. We can't move them on, even if tens of thousands of them are polluting our drinking water, destroying our livelihood, if we are fruit growers, or infecting our horses & killing us.

The penalty for killing a dangerous snake, that threatens your kids, is greater than that for bashing some poor shop owner with a base ball bat as you rob the shop.

The same people, mostly southerners expect us to live with crocodiles at the foot of the garden, if we are on a northern river, but want to deny us, an admittedly dangerous, guard dog, to warn & protect us.

They are the same people who demanded laws that require me to keep my dogs locked in a small yard, at night, preventing them from protecting my foals & calves from wild dogs. Ask my neighbours how many sheep & goats they find torn to pieces.

It is mostly the same people who want to deny my use of poison to control these dogs, & they are horrified if I want to use a gun, as a last resort.

About time some people got their priorities right.

Hasbeen! you may well have posted in a calm mood but tripe!
The subject of Hendra virus has nothing to do with it.
Anti, please reconsider,it does you mate, no good, no good at all, to constantly refer to the race of THIS VICTIM.
This story is not the first like it, in NSW children have suffered the same awful fate, death the neighbors dog.
Remember my claim to understand dogs.
And that dogs are the wolf still they came from.
Being afraid is some thing dogs understand.
In the wrong dog it switches the attack mode on.
Running too tells the dog some thing.
Wild animals? well often the owners are, but my dogs , every one of them,only ever bit one person,and it happened twice.
She was a pup from the pound,sits at my feet now, fear drove her to nip me as I medicated her for worms.
Here in a thread about our Friends,we still find reason to not address the subject.
I and as far as I can see no one is calling for dog culling.
Owner culling is the answer, if we outlaw these then others will follow,every dog can do this only some would.
Back yard breeders,accidental breeding has produced problems.
In owners as well as dogs.
Has your village lunatic got a dog much like himself?