Dog confiscated from family for no good reason...

It may have been said as a joke.
'Yeah, Fluffy there will rip your head off, haha'
But a good prosecution barrister would make that look like a threat.
Just surmising.

This dog IMO does not deserve to die (and I will be quite frank when I think a dog needs to have a 'come to Jesus' meeting), or to have been locked up for 18 months, having been previously 'legal' enough to be licensed, microchipped and insured (doing any of these things is not legal with a banned/DDA breed/type, he must have only become illegal when he turned four).

Anyhoo, what do I know :)
 
Oh and another thing :p re the names of dogs - the name Lennox existed before there was ever a boxer called Lennox Lewis.
I enjoyed reading about the Lenox Conyngham family as a nipper :p
There is a user on here with a dog called Tyson, he is not a bull breed and she doesn't strike me as being a chavvy thug. And her bull breed has a well posh girlie name :p

I know a very nice put together, well qualified working GSD called Tyson imported from Belgium, he was called Tyson because...he was part of a 'T' litter and Tyson begins with a 'T'.
The dog which took the best young male title at the Sieger show in 2009 was called Tyson, from Scandinavian breeding.

When I was growing up there was a white boxer up the road called Minter. Lots of younger people will not have a clue what that name means nowadays.
Bruno and Butch and Spike and Tiger used to be 'hard' names, now they are 'funny' and 'ironic'. I bet a lot of younger people won't even know, like Minter, why Bruno would have been a 'hard' name.
It's to do with trend, pop culture, preference, it's just a name and it should not condemn the dog.

Personally I don't like to hear German-breed dogs with names like Kaiser or Fritz, it makes my teeth itch, or things like Apache or Cherokee (Those are tribes which still exist, it's like calling a dog 'Catholic' or 'Jewish' in my eyes, they are real groups of people!). Doesn't mean I hate their owners or think they are stupid or thick or dangerous, it's just a preference.
 
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CaveCanem said:
Oh and another thing :p re the names of dogs - the name Lennox existed before there was ever a boxer called Lennox Lewis.
I enjoyed reading about the Lenox Conyngham family as a nipper :p
There is a user on here with a dog called Tyson, he is not a bull breed and she doesn't strike me as being a chavvy thug. And her bull breed has a well posh girlie name :p

I know a very nice put together, well qualified working GSD called Tyson imported from Belgium, he was called Tyson because...he was part of a 'T' litter and Tyson begins with a 'T'.
The dog which took the best young male title at the Sieger show in 2009 was called Tyson, from Scandinavian breeding.

When I was growing up there was a white boxer up the road called Minter. Lots of younger people will not have a clue what that name means nowadays.
Bruno and Butch and Spike and Tiger used to be 'hard' names, now they are 'funny' and 'ironic'. I bet a lot of younger people won't even know, like Minter, why Bruno would have been a 'hard' name.
It's to do with trend, pop culture, preference, it's just a name and it should not condemn the dog.

Personally I don't like to hear German-breed dogs with names like Kaiser or Fritz, it makes my teeth itch, or things like Apache or Cherokee (Those are tribes which still exist, it's like calling a dog 'Catholic' or 'Jewish' in my eyes, they are real groups of people!). Doesn't mean I hate their owners or think they are stupid or thick or dangerous, it's just a preference.
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I agree with you on most of the above, and I'm sure that a few people give their dogs names like Tyson without thinking what it conveys. But I still think that most often, those names are given to make the dog seem tough.

Personally I wouldn't choose a "hard" name for a dog (ESP a bull breed) because it raises peoples' fears/suspicions whether fair or not. In fact, my dog was called Bruno when he arrived at the local dogs' charity kennels but the charity changed his name to the more innocuous Bobby.
 
This is why I mainly refer to the ginger gobshite as Dexie not Dexter (serial killer apparently!).

As an aside if it were your dog, would you have allowed it to suffer in those conditions for so long? or would you have PTS?
 
lexiedhb said:
This is why I mainly refer to the ginger gobshite as Dexie not Dexter (serial killer apparently!).

As an aside if it were your dog, would you have allowed it to suffer in those conditions for so long? or would you have PTS?
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Haha, yes Dexter now has a new meaning since the tv series!

On your other point, I have thought of that too. But I wouldn't like to judge, as I've not been in that position so I don't know. Plus there's a little girl involved, and you'd have to think of how you'd convince her that was the right thing to do.

It does sound like Lennox was fierce with strangers/visiting officials/ the animal behaviourist (IF the paper isn't lying) so God knows what the poor lad will be like after being slammed up for over a year.
 
lexiedhb said:
This is why I mainly refer to the ginger gobshite as Dexie not Dexter (serial killer apparently!).

As an aside if it were your dog, would you have allowed it to suffer in those conditions for so long? or would you have PTS?
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Thats a very good point Lexie and I hadnt even considered that aspect, on reflection I couldnt bear to see any of my dogs locked up like that and would request they would be put down, any dogs suffering those sorts of conditions I would have thought will have suffered long term mental damage.
 
Our Dex was after the Midnight Runners and why I now have a pup named after one of their songs :p
Lexie an interesting point and something that puts the owners in a Catch 22 situation, if you get my drift.
Do they fight and get their dog back and set a precedence, however long it takes, or do they agree for him to be PTS to avert his suffering? Who wins in either situation? Obviously, it would be of benefit to the people taking the case, to do the latter.

There was a fear at one stage that he would come out of kennels completely traumatised, could never integrate back into family life, thus proving the 'point' of the case and he would be PTS anyway.
However I can't really go into detail here but there may be evidence that these fears are unfounded :)

It's nothing to do with the paper lying, if it was covering a court case and an *allegation* was made in court.

My older dog can be protective, especially around men he does not know if they encroach on our space suddenly.
Doesn't mean he needs the needle, he gets put away, introduced properly or a bat around the ear depending on the circumstance, or if I am on my own out in the woods and feel threatened (which has happened) then I don't care if he has a grizzle if it makes me safer.
 
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This is what I thought- knowing what Dex was like after 6 months in kennels with people he knew, I can not imagine his mindset after 18 months like that. I know it is "letting them win" but I seriously do not think I could put a dog through that sort of ordeal, only for it to become unmanageable and be PTS anyway when I did get it home.

ETS Floofy Mc floofy knickers was a DMR's song??????? :)
 
As regard names Diesel isnt my favourite name but this is what he had grown up with, I did think about changing it but it would have had to have rhymed. The only names I could think of was Teasel & Weasel and as he is mostly black and big I didnt think they suited him.:D
 
This is B as a pup, with our old girl.



Nancy.




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Dobiegirl said:
As regard names Diesel isnt my favourite name but this is what he had grown up with, I did think about changing it but it would have had to have rhymed. The only names I could think of was Teasel & Weasel and as he is mostly black and big I didnt think they suited him.:D
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I had a dog from a rescue place who had been called Dusty all her life. She really knew her name, so I told my family if we changed it, it should be something which sounded like Dusty. We came up with: Crusty, Busty, Lusty, Musty, Fusty....

So Dusty it was for the rest of her life. :D
 
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I had a dog from a rescue place who had been called Dusty all her life. She really knew her name, so I told my family if we changed it, it should be something which sounded like Dusty. We came up with: Crusty, Busty, Lusty, Musty, Fusty....

So Dusty it was for the rest of her life. :D
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Yes your choices were a lot more limited than mine:D
 
a dogs name should never enter the equation!! that is just ridiculous!!

i knew a dog called trouble, a chaos, a hassle, asbo, tyson....

what on earth should a name you choose for a dog have to do with anything?

a cousin of a friend had a dog called sheep- doesnt mean the dog was a sheep-
 
"There is a user on here with a dog called Tyson, he is not a bull breed and she doesn't strike me as being a chavvy thug. And her bull breed has a well posh girlie name"
... I can be a bit chavvy :p

*takes off burberry baseball cap*
 
Well older staffie bitch arrived bearing the name of "Tyson" which I thought was a bad choice for a rather pretty bitch. It was changed to "Tara" or as the yard now know her "Lady TPT" (yes, seriously!)
 
Luci07 said:
Well older staffie bitch arrived bearing the name of "Tyson" which I thought was a bad choice for a rather pretty bitch. It was changed to "Tara" or as the yard now know her "Lady TPT" (yes, seriously!)
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Hmm, someone didn't check the undercarriage, eh?!
I knew a female dog called Brutus, bought as a yard dog, they didn't really care either way when they realised it was a bitch and the name stuck.
Oh and my friend has a bitch called Shane, again, she changed it to Jane for a while but it did not suit her as much :o
 
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Please, please everyone go and give your dogs a hug and thank your lucky stars that they are not on this appalling 'list' - think of Lennox and his family today and be grateful that your dog won't be next, because of the way it looks.
 
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