Yep - i agree maybe in those sorts of situations they should do more investigations.

Ok then if you want to split hairs - the dog had negative feelings, obviously they must experience positive and negative - whatever you want to call it the dog bit her.

Each case would have to be viewed

As a child my aunts dog bit my face very badly unprovoked and half my lip was hanging off - the dog was pts and I think this was the right decision in this case and if it were my dog I would do the same.

I have been bitten on my leg badly but was in the way of two dogs fighting. OH has been bitten and broke his finger due to fighting dogs and trying to separate. No dogs PTS.

I would have to look at the circumstances surrounding why the dog bit and how severe the attack / injury was.

If a dog attacks badly enough to kill maybe we should start putting the owners down. How many people wouldn't train their dogs properly then?

Huh ? its not always down to training - there are some dogs where that wouldn't make any difference !

Hmmmm, there are quite a few times when I see people who need putting to sleep!

Snorri

I would hate to see my wee Toro being agressive, I have tried very hard with her to make sure she is very well socialised and people friendly, just because of her breed type, I have came across a lot of people not sure of her and have left after meeting her realising that they are not the bad breed people preconcieve them to be, I love her so much I would be absolutely devastated if she ever bit, and with that in mind I am very careful to put her back on lead passing people, children, prams, bikes , joggers ect, I am very much of the mind if you own a dog the dog is your responsobility, if that dog becomes agressive towards people or other dogs, in some ways you have failed your dog, they look to us for leadership and we owe them that much !

We had a dog that we got off friends in the RAF, they got posted to Cyprus. We took her into our home and she was a lovely dog until I had my daughter. She became very jealous and would growl at me and my husband, I couldnt even touch her while I was pregnant. We assumed that was Abigail was born she would go back to her normal happy self...wrong. Abigail was crawling on the floor and the dog was in the kitchen (safety gate in place), baby went towards the dog and dog flew at her!!!...next day same thing, we had to take her to the vet that night and have her pts on the vets advice. I dread to think what would have happened if the gate hadnt been there. As much as we loved the dog our childs safety came first.

One of our scotties was very food possesive and would snarl and snap and certainly bite if we had got too close. In all honesty we didn't think anything of it despite getting bit a few times. Back then training dogs wasn't the big thing it is now and we were blissfully ignorant and just let him be. We never considered him aggressive and totally didn't know what food aggression was about....our fault for not training him. We just let him get on with it and he was at all other times and lovely chap.......very stubborn (he was a scottie), but a lovely chap none the less.

Another scottie my parents rehomed briefly from a rescue and he bit my sisters toe so we had to give him back (my sister and i were 5-9 yrs old or there abouts).
My mum was talking about it recently and realised now that it was completely our fault for putting him a situation with lots of people (a party at our house) before he had time to settle in....again ignorance on our part.
He was rehomed again and my mum kept in touch with the new owners who were thrilled with him so all ended well.

I'm not sure what my point is really , but I think a full out attack/mauling is very different and in those circumstances there probably is no choice but to PTS but when does a bite become an attack? Where do you draw the line?

Again as other have said it should be treated on an individual basis and certainly the dog needs to be given the chance to be understood.

Hi all

We hade a staffy once called Murphy we had him about 7months we got him from a rescue centre. He was grate for the first 6months no problems at all and he seemed happy and loved to play and be with me and the wife. But then one day we got up it was a normal day had breakfast then walk the dog with the wife but this is when it all changed while out on a walk with Murphy and he turned on Clare ( the wife) wasn’t provoked at all just the normal walk. He tried jumping for Clare’s face and bite her on the arm I stepped in and told him off know normally he nos he’s dun wrong but he didn’t he just tried to do it again and again and it didn’t seem to sink in that he’s doing wrong. Anyway we just thought he was just been a normal teenager and just wanted to play up. But it started to happened on every walk. Then one day when me mum came over for a brew we tuck him for a walk and he tried jumping at me mum. We tried every thing we could to stop him but it didn’t seem to work at all so we rang the rescue centre where we got him from and explained to them what’s happening asked if wed dun surton things give her the answers any way she said he’d have to be put to sleep witch we didn’t want at all so we tried another week to see if he would change bearing in mind this had gon on for 1 month already and nearly every day me or Clare ended up bitten. It didn’t work and he hade to go. They asked for me to take him to the vets and asked the to put him down I sead there’s no way I can do it I felt bad anuf making the call. So they tuck him for use .


Sorry Hope you didn’t mind me sharing the story.
Now just because if sead he was from a rescue centre I’m not saying that all dogs will be the same when you get them from a rescue centre.

I don’t think all dogs that bite just once should be P.T.S as they all dissever another chance.

phil

Years ago my mum had a gsd cross- she was extremely obedient and my mum did a few competitions with her. She was well behaved in all respects- but had always prefererred never to be around children (this was before i or my brother was born) she would leave the room and generally avoid visiting children.
then one day my mum was walking her as usual- she was being her normal well behaved self- walking through the busy streets to the park when coming the opposite way on the pavement was a woman with a pushchair (my mums dog had seen pushchairs lots of times) when all of a sudden mums dog lunged at the puschair (my mum couldnt physically hold her) and she mauled the hell out of it until my mum could get her off- luckily there was no baby in it- but my mum carried on walking and walked to the vets and had her pts. she felt there was no reason for the attack and that if there had been a child inside then she would of probably killed it.