Lennox

milo'n'molly said:
The point is this dog had a family who wanted him and had abided by the rules
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Yeah, I think people are up to speed on what the point is, but talk of Boycotting Belfast, and the London Olympics and so on is far from helpful. Death threats and bomb scares is just insane. :confused:

Either way, Rest in Peace Lennox, although I suspect you probably have been for some time.
 
RIP Lennox, I actually don't know anything about this story apart from the odd fb update from a celeb vet who was trying to save him. Can anyone enlighten me?
 
What a **** hand of cards he was dealt :-( thoughts are with those who fought so hard for this boy who did not deserve these last 2 years.
So sad his family could not be with him at the end - sweet dreams Lennox x
 
Lennox, I as a dog owner, do not care for the warring words between people, who was to blame for what, how your temperament deteriorated, what you looked like or who the bad guy is in all of this. I am just so sorry that you suffered and I have no doubt that you did.

I hope you are at peace now, enjoy Rainbow Bridge handsome boy.
 
Just posted by Victoria Stilwell on FB:

"I am so disgusted and want everyone to know how low Belfast City Council have stooped.

The Barnes family heard about the death of their beloved dog through me because I had been told by a source at BBC Radio Ulster. After what the council put the family through they didn't even have the decency to inform the family first before everyone else know.

Someone involved in this mess needs to lose their job. If this is the way they represent their citizens then Belfast beware. Belfast City Council should hang their heads for the shameful and insensitive way they have handled this.

Heartless doesn't even begin to describe the people surrounding this case. Appalling and I can assure you, this will NEVER be forgotten!"
 
The Lennox site have also just posted that BCC wont return Lennoxs collar to the Barnes family.

Whatever the ins and outs of this case BCC have behaved completely without feeling and quite frankly are oblivious to the furore their behaviour has caused.
 
Dobiegirl said:
The Lennox site have also just posted that BCC wont return Lennoxs collar to the Barnes family.
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ARGHHHHH :mad: :mad: :mad: this whole story has made me so damn angry!! That poor poor dog, my heart breaks for him :( RIP Lennox :(


just to add...does any of this seem really 'odd' to anyone else... they won't return the collar...erm why?! Seems very strange to me, perhaps they are trynig to cover something up?.. hmm :cool:
 
It's all very dodgy if you ask me. They're either totally heartless & dead inside OR Lennox was pts a while ago OR they don't want anybody seeing the state of him :(

They're targeting the wrong dog owners here. It's the gangs of lads, walking the streets, using their dogs as weapons who need the dogs removing from them.

My cousins dog was seized by the police for being of 'pitbull type'. She got him back though. I was always under the impression that even if they ARE an illegal breed, they can be kept as long as they're neutered, microchipped & muzzled in public places? Is this not the case?
I know a staffy x pitbull. Known him since he was a pup. He's probably about ten now. Honest to god, he is the daftest most loveliest dog you could ever meet. It's just when they get in the wrong hands....:(
 
All so often, campaigns such as this, become bigger than the subject. I wonder just how much interest some of the campaigners actually had in the dog. Far too many who've acted and spoken, ostensibly on behalf of the dog, have sabotaged any chance of reprieve. By going public, Victoria Stillwell added further nails to his coffin.

It isn't the fault of BCC, it's a court decision. The poor old chap's dead. That's it.

Alec.
 
Interesting to note that Stilwell and Milan were contacted very early on in the campaign but only chose to get involved at a late stage when there was lots more publicity and the decision had been taken to higher courts and was pretty much irreversible. Anyhoo...
 
Sorry,disagree.That dog was not dangerous,having seen his "assessment" vid,where he is slapped down and does not react.It was of a submissive polite dog hoping for a treat.On it they based their assessment as unpredictable. This BSL law is nothing more than racial prejudice with dogs,and it needs to stop .BCC were given the option to get the dog off their patch and into a professional rehab home,they could have scored myriad points for humanity if they had.As it was the usual pig headed N. I. nature took over. I`d be far more worried about a blasted time bomb border collie biting me than one of these guys,and about bull breeds I do know quite a bit.:mad:
 
EAST KENT said:
Sorry,disagree.That dog was not dangerous,having seen his "assessment" vid,where he is slapped down and does not react.It was of a submissive polite dog hoping for a treat.On it they based their assessment as unpredictable. This BSL law is nothing more than racial prejudice with dogs,and it needs to stop .BCC were given the option to get the dog off their patch and into a professional rehab home,they could have scored myriad points for humanity if they had.As it was the usual pig headed N. I. nature took over. I`d be far more worried about a blasted time bomb border collie biting me than one of these guys,and about bull breeds I do know quite a bit.:mad:
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Serious question for you then .....why was the dangerous dog act brought in to cover pitbulls and other fighting dogs and not border collies ?
 
the dangerous dogs act was bought in as a knee jerk reaction! it was very badly thought out (or not thought out) and worded. bully's are a fab breed of dog, .. like any dog .. in the right hands they are fantastic, we look at the wrong end of the lead .. alsatians and rottweilers and dobermans were all victimised and thought to be devil dogs too ..thankgod we still had common sense back then .. otherwise we would be several breeds down, ...and the next breed (and there will be a next breed) ..it might be your dog of choice :(
 
gracey said:
the dangerous dogs act was bought in as a knee jerk reaction! it was very badly thought out (or not thought out) and worded. bully's are a fab breed of dog, .. like any dog .. in the right hands they are fantastic, we look at the wrong end of the lead .. alsatians and rottweilers and dobermans were all victimised and thought to be devil dogs too ..thankgod we still had common sense back then .. otherwise we would be several breeds down, ...and the next breed (and there will be a next breed) ..it might be your dog of choice :(
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I appreciate it was a rushed through and fairly unworkable act but it was brought in for a reason.....but what I was asking was if collies are as dangerous as pitbulls why they weren't included ?
 
On the DDA - anyone also know why most of the other breeds included on the list had barely set paw in the UK and were pretty much unheard of - and still are, to most people? Why 'ban' a breed of dog no one really owned anyway?!

Oh and if anyone reading this has been phoning or emailing any vets who they think 'might' have administered the injection, please don't, vital test results are being blocked/delayed from getting through to clients with ill pets.
 
I think it was because they were beginning to come into the country and maybe would have become the next fashionable breed...at least the act worked to stop that happening.
 
I did see a post from Save Lennox asking people not to ring vets as it was causing vets to miss vital tests results, I did think it was a stupid thing to do in the first place, as was the idea to ring all crematoriums to ask if they had a dog of Lennoxs description come in.
 
Dobiegirl said:
I did see a post from Save Lennox asking people not to ring vets as it was causing vets to miss vital tests results, I did think it was a stupid thing to do in the first place, as was the idea to ring all crematoriums to ask if they had a dog of Lennoxs description come in.
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People are weird .....that's all.
 
Suppose so Bonny re the DDA.


Re the continuing online hysteria, I thiefed this comment from a newspaper comments section, food for thought...

If everyone who 'phoned the world, emailed the world, tweeted the world...had switched off their phone/mobile/internet services for a month and donated the cash they spent on them to the Barnes, they could have engaged Max Clifford & Mishcon de Reya, it might not have made the difference but it would have been hellish better than sending people boxes of poop and all the other fantastic actions carried out in the dogs name.

But then that wouldn't have been what it was all about for them... It's got bugger all to do with this former dog. It's about them, about being "in on" something and now that the dénouement has been played, there's panic and every effort in the world to stop the party ending.
 
CaveCanem said:
Suppose so Bonny re the DDA.


Re the continuing online hysteria, I thiefed this comment from a newspaper comments section, food for thought...

If everyone who 'phoned the world, emailed the world, tweeted the world...had switched off their phone/mobile/internet services for a month and donated the cash they spent on them to the Barnes, they could have engaged Max Clifford & Mishcon de Reya, it might not have made the difference but it would have been hellish better than sending people boxes of poop and all the other fantastic actions carried out in the dogs name.

But then that wouldn't have been what it was all about for them... It's got bugger all to do with this former dog. It's about them, about being "in on" something and now that the dénouement has been played, there's panic and every effort in the world to stop the party ending.
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It is just mass hysteria....all those people who never met the dog, had nothing to do with him and didn't actually have any idea about his aggression or lack of it.
Facebook sometimes has alot to answer for. It might be boring but think of how much good could have been done if all that so called caring had instead gone on the plight of dogs in general in this country. Why do so few people care about all the dogs who lose their live's every day simply because they are homeless and unwanted instead of jumping onto a crazy bandwagon about one dog who was doomed from the start....
 
Bonny if all this fuss and furore on fb helps bring about a change to the BSL law that can only be a good thing.

Its a national scandal that so many healthy dogs of any breed are being put to sleep everyday thats why 2 of my dogs are rescues.
 
Dobiegirl said:
Bonny if all this fuss and furore on fb helps bring about a change to the BSL law that can only be a good thing.

Its a national scandal that so many healthy dogs of any breed are being put to sleep everyday thats why 2 of my dogs are rescues.
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I don't think for a minute it will bring about any changes to the law, why should it ? I don't think people on the whole care at all about the law or even stop to think about it. Alot of people simply became sheep and joined in the uproar about one dog as if somehow that was what mattered.
 
Strange act the DDA,it was brought about after a couple of Rotties killed a child known to them;not even a bull breed FFS! Another "incident" involving a pit and a little Indian girl ,the press said the dog was "tempted away" by chocolate.Oh please,if a pit is genuinely in red zone he won`t even care about chocolate or anything else for that matter,fact,the dog concerned was not red zone.
Although the knee jerk reaction banned some breeds already here,there are other equally well armed dogs being imported as we write..for instance the bullykutta.This is a ginormous Pakistan fighting dog,not on any list,but potentially lethal..IN THE WRONG HANDS. Because not many know anything about it it`s existance does`nt bother the authorities.
And of course various crosses are being done to produce dogs quite as efficent as a pit could be..in the wrong hands.
Any breed can be dangerous,some are better armed than others,but in every single case it is the human that is at fault.
 
That's the point, it's the wrong hands that's the problem and its them who choose the bull type dogs to look hard. The nastiest most aggressive dog I have ever met was a Yorkshire terrier and it got away with it because of its size but when it went to bite people the intention was to do harm. The dogs banned are the ones who appeal to divs (not saying the only people who like these dogs are the morons who mishandle them but these people are after a status dog who looks the part and wouldn't deliberately choose a border collie or a Yorkshire terrier
 
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