Beagle killed in dog attack

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WARNING : Do not watch the video if you are of a sensitive disposition!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5112185/Im-devastated-sorry-says-owner-dogs.html

Chester, a beagle, was out with his dog walker when he was attacked and killed by two aggressive dogs. The dogs involved are reported to be a Bully Kutta and the other a Rhodesian Ridgeback x Staffie (one looks remarkably like a Dogo Argentino with cropped ears and the other like a pitbull). BSL doesn't work, we all know that, but it is hard for me to understand why on earth someone wants a powerful, aggressive dog such as a Bully Kutta as a family pet. Bullys and other similar breeds are not good pet material. As far as I know they have never been kept as such during the development of the breed and are bred for dog fighting in Pakistan.

In this instance, I hope the dogs are euthanised and the owner prosecuted under the DDA. It must have been horrifying for the dog walker to witness and for the beagle's owners to have to come to terms with.
 
Pearlsasinger said:
I haven't watched the video and have no intention of doing so but

Who the hell stood there videoing that?
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There are different reports that I have read. One says it was the dog walker and she only started filming after the poor beagle was dead (within 30 seconds) and you can hear her sobbing and crying out in it, and the other said it was a passer-by. It could be a generational thing but I would not even think to get my phone out and start filming while my dog (or one in my care) was being ripped to shreds, but I guess it is common practice nowadays and at least it has been passed to the police so the owner of the attacking dogs has no chance of escaping justice.
 
WorkingGSD said:
There are different reports that I have read. One says it was the dog walker and she only started filming after the poor beagle was dead (within 30 seconds) and you can hear her sobbing and crying out in it, and the other said it was a passer-by. It could be a generational thing but I would not even think to get my phone out and start filming while my dog (or one in my care) was being ripped to shreds, but I guess it is common practice nowadays and at least it has been passed to the police so the owner of the attacking dogs has no chance of escaping justice.
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Yes, I can see the value of having the film after the event but getting my phone out under those circumstances would be the last thing I thought of - mind you it would probably take me about 5 minutes to work out how to film it anyway! Definitely a generational thing. But I would have been in there trying to stop the attack (not advisable, I know). I am glad that the owner of the attacking dogs will be held accountable, I only wish that the penalties were stronger.
 
No chance of me trying to stop the attack! If I had something to throw I might try that but I don’t usually walk with much ammo beyond a poo bag holder! My safety above any dogs life I’m afraid.
 
rara007 said:
No chance of me trying to stop the attack! If I had something to throw I might try that but I don’t usually walk with much ammo beyond a poo bag holder! My safety above any dogs life I’m afraid.
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This. I have seen the result of a human intervening in a serious dog attack. (I was a student nurse in theatres) In this case a lady in her 60's who tried to stop her son's 2 GSD fighting over a stick. The dogs then turned on her and she was lucky to survive, they'd ripped her flesh to the bone on several limbs. These were family dogs with no history of aggression who she knew well.
 
The footage was filmed by someone who came to the Dog walkers aid. Thank God as there is hard evidence of the attack and the owner and dogs were very quickly identified.

Sickening.
 
Words fail me. That poor dog. The attacking dogs should be immediately PTS and the owner prosecuted, I cannot believe he walked away :(

I agree with amymay, totally sickening
 
Pearlsasinger said:
I haven't watched the video and have no intention of doing so but

Who the hell stood there videoing that?
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Same to both. I know I would probably have been attacked by the dogs, but I would have been in there, boots flailing had it been one of mine. That poor little dog and the poor dog walker.

I totally see the value of the video, it will be brilliant evidence. I hope both dogs are euthanised and the owner strongly sanctioned.
 
rara007 said:
No chance of me trying to stop the attack! If I had something to throw I might try that but I don’t usually walk with much ammo beyond a poo bag holder! My safety above any dogs life I’m afraid.
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I've stopped a similar attack on my own dog by an American pitbull type and something a little chunkier. But I've never been so physically scared for my own life (inc motorway car accidents and numerous falls from equines) and I couldn't have done it alone. I also knew that there would be a point where I'd put me first and may have to face watching the child's dog be ripped to shreds and telling child I'd made that decision so it wouldn't be child's mother AND child's dog torn apart - and I was incredibly sad about that. I was fortunate to have a large and strong ish umbrella to hand (it was raining) and that the larger of the two dogs started to go for me - at which point a passer by did intervene to pull that one back from me which allowed me to grab my little mutt (calculated risk that I could fight off the American pitbull whilst the otehr was restrained). Also was incredibly fortunate that the American pitbull had picked mine up by his harness and he managed to wriggle free from that leaving her shaking that around without him in. And that both the larger dogs had harnesses on which withstood being grabbed.

I'm still talking (writing) about it months later because it was horrible. And TBH I can understand why no-one would intervene for a dog that wasn't theirs. Although the two owners involved in my incident doing nothing at all was unforgivable I thought.

Very sad.
 
Dear God!... How disgusting... And to think that guy says the dogs are gentle with his 3yr old daughter, until they're not.
 
Truely horrific, these dogs just have no place in people's homes, just have to hope they have been destroyed already and maybe someone, somewhere will think again about what they consider to have as a pet. To think that they lived with small children.
 
I have only seen the stills.

If you stepped into that (two dogs of that size on one) without being armed with something, you'd probably be hospitalised and maybe lose the use of your arms/hands and never be able to work again. Lucky you had brave people to help GirlFriday.
The dog was apparently beyond help at that stage and as mentioned the video could do more in terms of a prosecution than a vet could do with the poor mite.

I've been on my own with an under control large dog, when an even bigger dog has tried to have a go and once when his mate joined in.....it is horrible and whilst I do protect him with my body and feet and took to walking with a schooling whip, it would my worst nightmare, meeting dogs like that, who wouldn't be stopped.
Once when said humongous dog came running at us, a workman saw me start to swear and turn in the other direction and he very kindly chased it away from us.
 
GirlFriday said:
I've stopped a similar attack on my own dog by an American pitbull type and something a little chunkier. But I've never been so physically scared for my own life (inc motorway car accidents and numerous falls from equines) and I couldn't have done it alone. I also knew that there would be a point where I'd put me first and may have to face watching the child's dog be ripped to shreds and telling child I'd made that decision so it wouldn't be child's mother AND child's dog torn apart - and I was incredibly sad about that. I was fortunate to have a large and strong ish umbrella to hand (it was raining) and that the larger of the two dogs started to go for me - at which point a passer by did intervene to pull that one back from me which allowed me to grab my little mutt (calculated risk that I could fight off the American pitbull whilst the otehr was restrained). Also was incredibly fortunate that the American pitbull had picked mine up by his harness and he managed to wriggle free from that leaving her shaking that around without him in. And that both the larger dogs had harnesses on which withstood being grabbed.

I'm still talking (writing) about it months later because it was horrible. And TBH I can understand why no-one would intervene for a dog that wasn't theirs. Although the two owners involved in my incident doing nothing at all was unforgivable I thought.

Very sad.
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Sounds absolutely horrendous GF :( I am gad you and your dog were ok.
 
god, just hideous-poor wee dug and so traumatic for the walker and the owners.

I did wade into a dog attack-a GSD that attacked my setter. I went in safety-rigger boots first and I strongly believe that if I hadnt, my dog would have been dead-he had teeth marks and bruising all around his penis. It happened at work just outside security and two of them, me and the owner managed somehow to get him off-my dog was under him on the ground literally screaming. I wish the bloody thing had bitten me, I'd have had it PTS much quicker than it finally was.
 
That actually made me cry.

A few years ago, I took a friends dog to the vet early one morning that had been attacked whilst he was on lead. (She didn’t want her children to see him in the state he was in). It was horrific, and the owner had been hurt pulling the other dogs off. Owner of attacking dogs couldn’t have given a ****, and sadly Tinks died a couple of days later.
 
I was thinking about this, walking my dog this afternoon.

I genuinely think I'd do jail time if You happened (or even remotely happened) to Daisy.
 
I won't watch the video but did see the short clip of the man walking away. A very strange response in my opinion. It's incidents like this that make me wish that people had to have a license to own a dog, to prove that you have the knowledge and skills to effectively train your dog. To me it's crazy that people are allowed to own powerful animals with little/no understanding of dog behaviour and training.
 
Tragic - and incidents like this will keep on happening unless legislation changes. Like another poster says, dogs like this have no place in the domestic home, they are bred for one purpose only - aggression. Our powers that be need to grow a pair and ban these dogs.

For those already in the country, compulsory neutering, muzzled and on lead in public, and compulsory public liability insurance for a start. I would like to see dog licencing back too - plus a face to face interview for anyone wanting to own bull breeds to see that they were wanting them for purposes other than a status symbol.
No bull breeds allowed in social housing either.

In this case the person in charge of the dogs should be jailed - his attitude was disgusting, and he would be made to watch those dogs be PTS in front of him and be made to dig the holes to bury them in too.

Poor little Beagle RIP. I would be devastated if it was my dog and would probably be in jail after shooting said dogs and owner.
 
The owner of the attacking dogs tries to justify the walking away by saying he was trying to get the dogs to follow him
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...ews/owner-dogs-killed-beagle-salford-13945497

Someone has posted elsewhere saying that these dogs had attacked their dog some time ago but they hadn't been able to identify the owner until now, so think his attempt to get the sympathy vote would seem to have backfired.
 
MurphysMinder said:
The owner of the attacking dogs tries to justify the walking away by saying he was trying to get the dogs to follow him
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co...ews/owner-dogs-killed-beagle-salford-13945497

Someone has posted elsewhere saying that these dogs had attacked their dog some time ago but they hadn't been able to identify the owner until now, so think his attempt to get the sympathy vote would seem to have backfired.
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The fact that he thought 2 dogs in full blown attack mode would follow him as he walked away just demonstrates his lack of understanding of dog behaviour & bolsters my view that licenses should be required to own dogs, particularly powerful breeds. The fact that these dogs had been totally misplaced in a family home with young kids is terrifying, unbelievable & quite frankly idiotic.
 
el_Snowflakes said:
The fact that he thought 2 dogs in full blown attack mode would follow him as he walked away just demonstrates his lack of understanding of dog behaviour & bolsters my view that licenses should be required to own dogs, particularly powerful breeds. The fact that these dogs had been totally misplaced in a family home with young kids is terrifying, unbelievable & quite frankly idiotic.
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The owner is a total moron who should be banned from owning any animal and also jailed for what his dogs did - we HAVE to start making people accountable for the actions of their dogs, or I believe that they will continue to see them as 'status symbol' accessories :(
 
I haven't watched the clip but did see some pictures on a news report, I really cannot understand how the owners of those dogs are happy for there 3 year old daughter to live under the same roof they must be bloody mad.
 
Pinkvboots said:
I haven't watched the clip but did see some pictures on a news report, I really cannot understand how the owners of those dogs are happy for there 3 year old daughter to live under the same roof they must be bloody mad.
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Or totally bloody thick as those type of people often are...
 
Hopefully both have been removed and shot by now, if they haven't and they remain the family home they are a major risk to anything or any person getting near them.

Surely they would not have gone home after the incident ?
 
We had trouble a few years ago with a couple of pit ball types they had eaten a hole just big enough to get out of in the back gate and were hunting cats. I saw them coming back with one and lost it. smashed the gate in and got the cat off them I was making a lot of noise but did not directly attack them. The cat died in my arms but still better than getting eaten. You could hear the owner calling for the cat for a couple of days and to her credit the dogs owner told her what had happened.
 
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