Six-year-old boy rushed to hospital after dog leaps fence and savages his face as he played in the garden | Mail Online

Not sure if anyone has already seen this or posted something in relation to it, if so then I apologise, I had a quick scan through and didn't see anything and to be honest, just needed to vent some anger before I pop a vein or something.

The poor lad and his family truly has my heartfelt sympathy at what happened, and I hope he has a speedy recovery.

However, the comments below the story have just made my blood boil, it's all the typical garbage "Dogs of this size should be banned in the UK" etc etc, some of them and honestly, whilst I know the majority of comments are made by uneducated, poor excuses for common-sense folk, it just leaves me utterly furious and I wish I could find out where some of them live.

"Rhodesian Ridgebacks are known to have a taste for blood"

"There is no reason for dogs to be kept as pets, they are wild animals and should be treated so"

"Dogs needed teeth when they were wild, but now they are domesticated and fed soft canned food, they should have their teeth removed for public safety. This should be part of the legality of owning a dog"

I mean seriously who thinks this s**t up?

I'm slowly losing faith in humanity; whatever happened to common sense and understanding and not thinking that because your entitled to an opinion your an expert on everything. Sigh.

WTF?? I see what you mean, yes, of course we should remove all dog's teeth.. what planet are these people from? I really do despair sometimes....

I know that there's a lot of nonsense said following these incidents, but I do feel that very often the wrong kind of people buy this type of breed for no more than status. Most of my adult life I've owned, and trained Springers and Golden reteivers to work. I consider myself to be a reasonable dog trainer within that area, I've never had a dog that I couldn't trust to be anything other than sociable. I would, however, have serious reservations about taking on one of these breeds, not because I think they are any more dangerous but, because as I'm not familiar with them, I'd be a little unsure of how to handle them. I think therein lies the problem, people buy them, as pups they are cute, as are all pups, but twelve months down the line you have a dog that is capable of doing serious damage if it's not been brought up properly, I sometimes think that some, not all, people who buy these really large and powerful breeds just dont consider this.

I definately agree with you there Springerpete, but it's just such a shame that responsible, diligent owners are stereotyped because of the breed they have, and not because of their actions, but because of the actions of those who just don't bother to correctly train and take care of their dog and thus risk situations such as the headline story.

An example would be SBT owners; SBTs, in my opinion, are such sweet-natured and lovely dogs, but because Charlie Chavface has decided they make a good status dog, the genuine SBt owners are pretty much descriminated against.

I just think it is so utterly pathetic and it's the people like those posting comment's under the story that cause such a chasm between the dog lovers and the dog haters.

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alot of breeds are missunderstood. What most people dont know is that its not the dogs fault, its the owners. some of the most friendly dogs i've ever met have been known to be the most "vicious" breeds. really annoys me when people blame the dogs

Thats fair enough! so long as it cuts both ways!

We'll cut of the hands of thieves!
The 'dicks' of rapists
etc etc etc!
Some peoples views on dogs just make you blood boil! what the hell happened to the UK! We were ONCE known as a nation of animals lovers!
So very very sad!

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I haven't read the article, but I have been around all sorts of dog breeds and it is the first I've heard that "Rhodesian Ridgebacks are known to have a taste for blood"

Very few people feed their dogs on canned food. And as for "no reason for dogs to be kept as pets" For God's sake! No reason for a lot of things, certainly no reason for the totally uneducated and pig ignorant to giving views on dogs, but we have to put up with it just the same.

Some people are just so brain dead I can't understand why they are still walking around instead of donating their organs and making themselves useful.

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Now, correct me if I'm wrong but has it not been known for humans to use teeth in pub fights to bite ears etc....
So, maybe as children when your adult teeth come through, we should have them all whipped out. We can use blenders to liquidise our food so that surely makes it the right thing to do

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