Dobiegirl
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[h=5]Dogs Today Magazine shared Wood Green Animal Shelters's photo.
[/h][h=5]After the tragic story of little Lexy last week, the Daily Mail are trying to pull together a follow up story about other rescue dogs that may have bitten people.
They have contacted this magazine and also Wood Green to help them find case histories. We expect other people will have had these calls, too.
Wood Green's response was to ask people on their timeline to share their stories of rescue dogs and how much people love their dogs and value their friendship.
Last week, when the first call came in to us from the journalist, we encouraged the paper to contact fatal dog bite expert vet Kendal Shepherd who knows probably more than about tragedies like these. She is calling for proper forensic research after incidents so we can hopefully learn more and prevent further tragedies.
We also encouraged the journalist to contact www.familypaws.comabout their important Dogs and Storks work....See more[/h]
Wood Green Animal Shelters
Charity Organisation · 29,068 likes
As far as I know this was the first fatal attack caused by a rescue dog even though it wasnt a proper rescue, when you think of the thousands of dogs that are happily rehomed every year and are good citizens. I know its the Daily Fail but I think it will drive people away from rescue dogs and buying more puppies from puppy farmers, this could do for pedigree dogs what the tv programme Pedigree Dogs Exposed did for pedigree dogs.
[/h][h=5]After the tragic story of little Lexy last week, the Daily Mail are trying to pull together a follow up story about other rescue dogs that may have bitten people.
They have contacted this magazine and also Wood Green to help them find case histories. We expect other people will have had these calls, too.
Wood Green's response was to ask people on their timeline to share their stories of rescue dogs and how much people love their dogs and value their friendship.
Last week, when the first call came in to us from the journalist, we encouraged the paper to contact fatal dog bite expert vet Kendal Shepherd who knows probably more than about tragedies like these. She is calling for proper forensic research after incidents so we can hopefully learn more and prevent further tragedies.
We also encouraged the journalist to contact www.familypaws.comabout their important Dogs and Storks work....See more[/h]
Wood Green Animal Shelters
Charity Organisation · 29,068 likes
As far as I know this was the first fatal attack caused by a rescue dog even though it wasnt a proper rescue, when you think of the thousands of dogs that are happily rehomed every year and are good citizens. I know its the Daily Fail but I think it will drive people away from rescue dogs and buying more puppies from puppy farmers, this could do for pedigree dogs what the tv programme Pedigree Dogs Exposed did for pedigree dogs.
