The Japanese Tosa: Is it REALLY The Most Dangerous Dog In The World?
Submitted by Ryan O'Meara on June 2, 2009 – 3:21 pm11 Comments
Remember people, we in the UK live in a land where dogs are determined ‘dangerous’ at birth. Our law states that. Our actual law of the land tells us that some dogs aren’t fit to breathe the same air as us as they are likely to eat our children, corrupt our souls and most likely engage in selling weapons grade plutonium to North Korea.
They’re deemed bad to the bone before they’ve even had a chance to eat their first choirboy. But is it REALLY true what they say about the big, bad Japanese Tosa? That this, not the Pit Bull, is really the most dangerous dog on the planet? Let’s find out….
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Ryan – its people like you who have kept illegally breeding pit bulls, like the one that just killed a 4 year old boy on the weekend, congratulations.
They are aggressive fighting dogs, how stupid are you?
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Ryan O'Meara Reply:
December 4th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Duncan, it’s ignorant, airheads know-it-all, know-nothings like you that are hindering progress and children die as a result of your ignorance. The people MOST responsible for death by dog attack are the people who simply don’t understand what it is that CAUSES dog attack and instead ignorant flail and spout their personal opinion as if it was fact, when they don’t know one end of a dog from another. Add yourself to that list. Congrats.
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Duncan you don’t know about Dogs.Pit bulls,Tosa and other fighting dogs are aggressive to other dogs not to Humans.Instinctly. If you socialize them in young age then you will have a nice friendly house dog.Some people make their dogs aggressive with a lot of ways.And espesially the people who have pit bulls.Then the dog can kill or bite a human and then is the dogs fault!?? This is the same with Racism to Humans. Example i am Italian ok? Italians make lots of crime in USA Ok? So you must kill all italians? You must ban all Italians? The same goes with the dogs. Understand that Humans make the dogs aggressive.And all dogs can be trained and socialized. Sorry for my english but i thing you will get my point.
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Awww…… That video is so cute
hey I just thought of something:
In 1991 weren’t there only one of those dogs in the UK when BSL was passed and no Dogos or Filas?
hmm… I’m scratching my now……..
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John Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
oops!…. I meant “I’m scratching my head now”…
Typo! silly me……
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Well said Ryan and Geo. All too often in this country we see things banned because they are deemed dangerous – handguns, knives, dogs – I’ve yet to hear of a dog kill without being trained to do so (and I’ve worked with war dogs, guard dogs and pets) and similarly I haven’t come across a knife, gun, bottle, glass or car kill a person without another human involvement.
It’s about time that people realise that if they are not capable of training a dog to be non-aggressive to people then they should seek the services of someone who can do it or not have a dog at all… All dogs, regardless of breed, are capable of killing or maiming if they are trained in the right way (some are just easier to do it with).
In the same vein, I have seen some of the most wonderful ‘puppy play’ from dogs trained to be dangerous when placed in the right environment. Yes, it is possible to train a dog to behave according to environment – a Rottweiler who would play without so much as a growl with her handler’s daughter but when put into her guard run would defend the territory to the death.
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Ryan, unfortunately the laws are necessary because people as (EDITED) stupid as you get ahold of potentially dangerous items and that needs to be restricted. Of course the dog deaths are not the dog’s fault Ryan, their essentially wolves, it’s what they do. They are in fact your fault Ryan. Because you’re too (EDITED) stupid to realize that, and don’t take responsibility for either your stupidity or your actions… they have to make laws.
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Ryan O'Meara Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 9:41 am
We do not approve comments on our site that contain bad language so yours has been edited.
However, I’m happy to address it. Listen closely, you might learn something.
Firstly, happy to give you some guidance. Perhaps you should go on an anger management course to help with your uncontrollable rage that makes you use language like you did – perhaps you didn’t really want your comment to be approved as it would end up in you getting your ‘logic’ picked apart for all to see.
Once you’ve finished your anger management course, see if you can get in to a school to help you with your powers of reasoning. For, you see, the irony of calling someone ’stupid’ whilst writing:
“their essentially wolves, it’s what they do.” – is a little hard not to laugh at.
1) It’s they’re.
2) No, ‘their’ not ‘essentially wolves’. Do you not have any concept of what 15,000 years of domestication does to a species? Clearly not. Do you also advise that teachers regard their pupils as ‘essentially cavemen’ – because that’s how flawed and idiotic your logic is. Dogs are NOT wolves. Get some education on the subject and come back and shout the odds when you don’t spew the sort of garbage that most 5-year olds have progressed past.
If you haven’t got the intelligence, discipline not to resort to juvenile language or knowledge of the subject matter, you might be best airing your rants on a website more suited to your level, although I don’t think Disney.com allows your naughty, grown up, rude words either.
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haha id be more concerend about the little one aproaching me!
i shouldnt be, but i really am astounded at the level of ignorant hatred pouring out of some of these posts. in everything that ryan has ever written that ive read, not once has he said he breeds pitbulls!
he has said that he has worked with thousands of dogs, qualifying him with a much better than the average persons experience of dogs.
as for the ignorant posters please go to dog attacks you never hear about blogspot. you will be saddened and shocked to see reports of vicious attacks from many breeds. one example is of a greyhound biting its owners nose clean off her face. can you imagine how horrendous that must be for the lady.
another example is of a labrador puppy left with a baby in one of those swings you hang from the door. the puppy ate the baby! why because the stupid woman was off her head on drugs and drink and slept, leaving the pup and baby alone.
please dont be so ignorant to comment on a subject you clearly know nothing about!
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We all know there is no such thing as a “bad” dog and while i have sympathy for the dogs the people who own them are almost as bad as the idiots breeding them.
Why would you breed a pit bull or tosa (not saying anyone here does) when you know it could be killed just for existing and why would you own and care for one knowing that was the case?
You can show a video of a tosa and a pug fooling around but we all know it just takes one split second impulse in the dogs entire life span, just one bite, and that pug could be dead. Thats why they’re a banned breed because the potential for harm is far greater from a Tosa than than it is from a Pug.
Sure between a pug and Tosa the line blurs, Rottweilers for example have the potential to do just as much damage as a Tosa but the line had to be drawn somewhere so it was drawn under dogs that were specifically breed for fighting. You can put forward whatever case you’d like but you can’t rewrite history.
While the first poster “Duncan” may have been very Daily Mail in his response your replies leave a lot to be desired. He may know nothing about dogs or the causes of dog attack but unless he owns a dog…he shouldn’t need to!
Not everybody likes dogs and as members of our society they have every right to walk down the street without fear of being mauled or slipping on dog turds. Its these people that laws like this exist, you can’t outright ban all dogs but you can limit the risk to society at large by banning those most likely to cause harm.
This (Stuart!) is why we also banned handguns, some knives and hand grenades. They are made to do harm to others and my desire to not be shot on purpose or by accident by your handgun supersedes your right to own one for no other reason than you think they’re neat.
We all know its the owners not the dogs but the fact is dogs like the pit bull were victims of their own image. They’re portrayed as vicious fighting dogs so people took them because of that image, someone who wants a vicious dog doesn’t want a pet they want a status symbol or a bodyguard.
Staffs (Staffordshire Bull Terrier) have almost completely taken over the pit bulls domain in the UK. Staffs are the fifth most popular breed in the UK but although i have no figures to back this up if you did a study it would be the most popular breed in the inner citys.
Why is it that anytime you see a “youth” in a hoodie smoking skunk screaming on their mobile “YA YE NAW WAH IZ SAYINZ BLUD!” two steps beside them off the lead with no mussel is a staff? Typically if you look at the scum of society you’ll find a staff or Rottweiler with a chunky gold coloured chain around their neck close by.
If i ruled the world I’d introduce a dog license where you have to prove you’re capable of taking care of your perspective breed and sign something stating that you personally are willing to suffer the consequences of your dogs actions so if your dog mauls a kid you’re the one who does 15 years for attempted murder and you pay the state the cost of caring for your dog for the rest of its natural life.
Of course that would never happen since humans incapable of feeling are worth more that animals that do.
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I can see where people are coming from from their post’s, however, I feel that dogs have 2 sets of reasoning, preditor or prey….(a little simplistic, but bear with me….) I believe that dogs should be ‘kept in their place’ ie, don’t let your dog sleep in your bed, do not let them eat with you…it is massively confusing for them, a lot of these ‘home’ attacks (fair enough not all) have been, I feel are down to owners not having a decent understanding of what a dog needs, love and nuture, but also disapline, structure and a pecking order, I feel it’s when these boundries are not clear that a dog will fight for leadership hence dog attacks on owners…..You can not keep a dog and expect it to react like a human just because it is treated as one.
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