Owners of dog left needing six hours of surgery after mauling by another dog ‘massively let down’ by police response
Owners of dog left needing six hours of surgery after mauling by another dog ‘massively let down’ by police response
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The real story is hidden in the detail.
>The dog that attacked him had to be beaten off with baseball bats by nearby builders.
I’ve never hired builders who routinely carry baseball bats. Is this a sign of the times, that organised criminals are moonlighting as brickies?
>But police decided not to seize the dangerous dog that bit Hugo “for now” because it is not a banned breed and does not have any history of aggression.
Chances are it’s one of the breeds the government wanted to subsequently ban after the initial 1991 legislation, but lobbying from the RSPCA/Dogs Trust/Battersea/etc stopped them from doing so.
So what’s the point of this law ‘It is against the law for a dog to be dangerously out of control anywhere’ if it’s not applicable to your dog being nearly mauled to death?
I wish we had a tighter system when it came to pets. I love the RSPCA but it feels like it’s not enough when basically anyone can buy/breed. Hugo will never be the same dog and that’s a fact. It’s so heartbreaking.
This is ridiculous, the dog might have had no REPORTED history of aggression but it absolutely has a history of aggression, it’s probably attacked others before but just never this bad
It’s not the dog, it’s the owner.
Therefore massively expand the number of banned breeds with highly restrictive licences for anyone who wants to own one. Same as guns basically.
This is tragic. Hugo (and Louise) have suffered substantial physical and psychological harm.
But those of us who feel compassion and empathy for Hugo (which I hope is all of us) – farmed animals are just as deserving of our care as Hugo. But they are bred into existence, often gassed, macerated or thumped to death at birth, mutilated without anaesthetic, taken away from their mothers, forced to exist in conditions that do not permit them to express their natural evolved behaviours, and painfully slaughtered before they would otherwise die.
All sentient beings are worthy of our moral consideration – humans, companion animals like dogs and cats, and farmed animals alike. Animal agriculture is intrinsically violent and exploitative, and always inflicts unnecessary suffering on animals.
Veganism is the moral baseline; the transition to a plant-based food system is a moral, environmental and global health imperative.
What animal ag in the UK looks like:
Stats: https://www.eatfair.org/
Footage: https://www.landofhopeandglory.org/
Another post from an astroturfing account.
Check out OP’s history. It’s all anti-pb stuff across every sub they can.
Goes against this sub’s rule for “single focus accounts”.