Comments on: Dramatic Rise in ‘Dangerous’ Dog Seizures: Just When Are We Going To Learn?

By: B Morgan

B Morgan — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:08:25 +0000

Come to Peterborough and you will find these hoody dogs and many places which were public community dog walking areas, gradually reducing in the number of responsible dog owner use.
Why are they reducing?
No nothing to do with being taken away but taken over by thugs bringing their dogs over and bending young trees over for their dogs to grab before launching them off the ground to swing while strengthening their weak neck muscles.
Ask them why and the reply is, “incase he gets attacked. He needs to be able to bite back harder. Why?”
Exercise over, they are then let loose to chase around the parks and terrorise law abiding dog walkers.
Having worked with the local youth for years, I can tell you almost all these owners are into drugs in a small or bigger way as in ‘giving/selling to others’ and many I know are also into organised dog fights.
The proof of this can only be given as many of these dogs disappear to be replaced by new ones more often than not before they are even 2 years old.
Although most are placid towards most humans, they tend to have a limited span between having something to chew and gnaw upon.
The breed you ask?
Usually anything with some form of bull terrier in it and often English Bull mastiff is mixed in somewhere or failing that, rottweiler.
Just my rant as a volutary warden for some local childrens parks, and owner of German Shepherds for over 35 years

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:06:27 +0000

So where were all the hooligan dogs prior to 2007, if only 40 seizures in London in 2006 and is it only London that has this huge number of seized dogs apparently down to yobs with dogs, being as you obviousely don’t get problem peole anywhere else in the country, makes sense all this.

I couldn’t see anythng about an RSPCA summit on status dogs on their web site.

By: Frankie

Frankie — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:30:29 +0000

I thought the RSPCA already held a ’summit’ on so called status dogs last year in London but didn’t hear no more after it all blew over.
I think they should be organising a national conference on the topic of ‘REPEAL Stupid Law” and put their money and energy into getting rid of it instead of just paying lip service with a whimpy call of ‘deed not breed’ a phrase that has been around for years yet what is actively being done to get the law changed in westminster, nothing, no repeal as there is no campaign for deed not breed, it’s all smoke and mirrors.

By: John Lilburne

John Lilburne — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:38:51 +0000

What about a ‘crackdown’ on the Metropolitan Police and those London councils who are obsessed with ‘hoodie dogs’ instead?

The forthcoming RSPCA ’summit’ on status dogs is basically a propaganda exercise being run by the RSPCA for their friends in the Met Police and certain London councils.

Surely by creating special units or teams in London to deal with alleged ‘yob dogs’ they are contributing to fuelling the situation?

Where are all the ‘yob dogs’ in the rest of the UK?

Perhaps I am being far too cynical but all these BARK type intiatives and the setting up of a special Met Police unit to deal with these dogs has surely resulted in the disgraceful figure of 608 dogs being seized by these people?

My confidence in the Met Police has always been really low, now as they are seizing hundreds of dogs, they have gone down even lower in my expectation, what the hell will they do next?

Where are all these dogs kennelled and what happens to these dogs in the kennels? They must have a canine Guantanamo somewhere that is full of dogs?