Not Stoked.

Something had to Want to make it maul the dog rather than give it a warning. Either way or sucks all round .

I had a staffy, best dog in the world, but one day a switch went off in his head and he’d completely red-zone whenever he saw any other dog/animal. Didn’t matter what species you were when he went that way, even human he’d go for you once he got started. Most of the time he was a total sweetheart, but eventually we had to keep him locked away from our other dog all day long.

We tried everything for over a year after it started, spent a fortune, but had to have him put down in the end, for safety’s sake. It was horrible. I tried to re-home him but we didn’t get anyone interested that we thought would realistically be able to handle him, and I was terrified of someone losing their patience with him and dumping him, in case something happened or if he ended up in a fighting ring or something. I still can’t pet another staffy without tearing up thinking about it.

Ah man that sucks hard.

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Did you have it from a puppy ?

Puppy-ish. He was a rescue but was still quite small when we got him. I put it down to irresponsible breeding I think. We’re pretty sure he was staff/Jack Russel cross. So he was always a bit bananas, basically a big Jack Russel on steroids.

I back this. Woman down the road had a dog that mauled her daughter and she needed plastic surgery to graft up the skin. She wasn’t physically able to protect her daughter from her own dog. Fucked

Not belittling anything but Pete King once told me the best story about walking his girlfriends dog when it attacked another dog in the park and he basically had to stick three fingers up its arse to get it to stop

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I can’t remember if I told this story before but a couple of years back on my way to work at about 7am I saw a guy stagger into and fall into the road, then when I got nearer I could see he was being attacked by two staffies. I jumped out of the car with absolutey no fucking clue what I was going to do about it and then saw that he was pissing blood and depserately trying to hold onto a tiny white poodle that he had in his arms. The two staffies were intent on tearing it limb from limb. He was screaming in terror. I ran up and just started booting those two dogs as hard as I possibly could. Fortunately for me they just yelped and briefly backed away for long enough to get him to his feet. By then there was a pretty big crowd people had come out of houses and a bus stopped right behind me, some blokes managed to get the feller and his dog (actually not even his dog, he was walking him for someone else) into their van. I just don’t really trust staffies at all any more.

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Should have tried fore play first

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That’s what you do. And if you’re attacked by a shark, try to hit its nose.

Obviously with crocodiles you wanna run away in a zig-zag.

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I too had a run in with a Staffie. I was walking through a park and heard absolutely hysterical screaming accompanied by some shouting along the lines of, ‘somebody do something it’s going to kill her’. There were clearly a few women yelling for help and it was right by a kids playground so I feared the worst and ran as fast as I could, vaulting fences to get over there ASAP. It was out of my line of sight to begin with, rounding the corner I could hear a dog and could see the women and thought a child was already on the ground being mauled. Fortunately it wasn’t and I couldn’t help feeling a little relieved to see it was a Staffie attacking another dog.

Relief didn’t last long and I dived straight in there grabbing the Staffie round the neck. I punched it repeatedly in the head with no reaction whatsoever. I changed tactics and tried poking it in the eyes. Nada. I gave squeezing its’ nuts a try. Again nothing. I gave strangling the bastard a go and dug my thumbs into it’s neck. They’re all muscle but it sort of worked after some choking noises but it took quite a while. The dog stopped shaking the other poodley type dog and eventually let go long enough for the small dog’s owner to snatch it away. Which left me holding a very riled up and angry Staffie. I swung it against a tree a couple of times and chucked it. On hitting the ground It turned around and ran at me and I kicked that thing full on in the face. I really thought I was up shit creek. I had slightly stunned it. It’s owner was freaking out. I was ready to bolt up the nearest tree to escape but didn’t have to as it got to it’s feet and came sloping up towards me and rolled on it’s back, peeing as it did so. Fully submissive. Thank fuck. It maybe took 3 pretty intense minutes from first grabbing the dog to it’s giving up. I got no thanks from the poodle owner and a bollocking off the Staffie owner for being so violent towards her dog, (who I, incidentally, told to go fuck herself). Both owners claimed that the attack came out of nowhere and neither dog had been responsible for starting anything and there was no sign of anything untoward beforehand and there was no warning at all. The poodle type dog was bleeding and shaking but I don’t think it was too badly hurt despite it’s ordeal. I did get some ‘well dones’ from some bystanders though. I’m not sure I’d do it again though - it was full spur of the moment stuff.

I would never have trusted the other dog after that. It does bring it home how little can be done when a powerful dog snaps. Had that been a Rottweiler or something like that the little dog would have been toast and there would have been nothing anyone could have done. It would have been screwed had I not intervened in this case too. If it had been a child it attacked then that kid would be in a real state if not dead. Scary stuff.

My mate has a rescued husky. That thing regularly escapes and has killed a cat, a fox, rabbits and a badger that his owner knows about. I wouldn’t let it anywhere near my Cocker Spaniel. The dude who owns it has small kids and seems totally oblivious to how potentially dangerous the thing is. I have told him what I think - the damn thing’s a menace. It’s like a permanently loaded shotgun with a hair trigger and a dodgy safety catch.

As a side note, after the bumbling ‘rescue’ I carried out, I remembered the sticking something up the dog’s arse to get it to release it’s bite thing. Given doing that or fist fighting a Staffie in attack mode again, unpleasant as it would be, I know what course of action I’d be taking.

I’m completely biased because I LOVE big dogs but it’s really all down to the training and owners. We have a six month old Cane Corso and he’s been trained properly each day and socialised regularly with every type of dog, adult and child. He’s so bloody soft and lovely. Nothing better than a loveable and cuddly beast!

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It’s not just big dogs that can be a problem. About fifteen years ago I rescued a Golden Retriever from being attacked by a Jack Russell. I pulled the Retriever away whilst my friend kicked the Jack Russell across the field. The retriever was so badly hurt that it had to have one of it’s legs amputated. I love Retrievers, (and gundogs in general), and have a bit of a grudge against little dogs with Napoleon complexes. One of my Cocker’s favourite dogs she plays with is a Spanish Mastiff who’s huge and great fun and I have absolutely no issue with. Lovely temperament and super well trained.

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That genuinely put a grin on my face for a good minute. :joy:

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I’m due to get a new dog on the 13th so this is some fun wake up reading as he’s a small breed a lot smaller than my last dog.

I’ve had a few run ins in the past, similar fair having to rip dogs apart, I find (if possible) if you grab them below the scruff of the neck and twist pretty hard they’ll release however there’s always the risk of them spinning and biting you back but it’s always a blink of an eye, act without thinking deal, you hope it never happens.

I’d say two thirds of the incidents I’ve dealt with it’s been the same, staffie / pit bull illegal looking fuckers with moronic chavvy scumbag owners following with no lead or shit bags.

One that stands out was the time a staffie ran up out of nowhere and grabbed my Jack Russel by the neck I managed to pull him free and pick him up whilst having to repeatedly kick and punch the staffie away who was jumping head height with me and wouldn’t fuck off, it was a horrible fat headed looking bastard with one of those stupid harnesses with gold sovereign medallion bullshit on it. The owner ran up and instead of immediately trying to control his dog began to square up and have a go at me for kicking it’s cunt in. I saw red and and screamed in his junkie face “WELL PUT THE CUNT ON A FUCKING LEAD YA PRICK!” Just as it jumped up at me again, I grabbed the cunt by the neck and threw it on its back (it whelped) and it finally gave up.
I’m guessing I must have scared the guy because he didn’t say anything back and quickly put his dog on its lead and fucked off sharpish. I’m a bit ashamed to say the only other thing I remember from that day was huge rock on the side of the path I was fully prepared to apply to dog and owner.

I’m a nice person honest.

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We had a jack Russell for a good few years which was a rescue, funny little dog, soft as shit but loved a tug of war with me. We had our first baby and the dog changed instantly, cried every second of the day, literally just wanting to get to the baby. We tried introducing them many times but the dog just looked like it wanted to eat the baby. We had to have 2 stair gates between the 2 main rooms and always keep one closed as we go through. One day he snuck past and through the gate, jumped up onto the sofa and leapt over towards the pram, If my wife hadn’t have caught him mid air, he would have landed inside and ripped our baby apart, i’m sure of it. So fucking sad but we had to give him away but he made an old man happy for a while.

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Ours was a rescue too, he passed in the beginning of January, the last time I posted about him I was moaning about him puking every other day, turned out he had a growth in his intestine which was too far gone, didn’t really feel like sharing it on here at the time. We swore off another dog for a while but the house is too quiet. And my kitchen floor is the messiest it’s ever been.

We had the same trepidations about introducing him to our girl as just before the birth there was more than one news story about Jack Russell terriers mauling toddlers / babies. Luckily he was good as gold and once he learned the baby was a good in for scraps he became very affectionate towards her and she was always very gentle with him so we had no worries leaving them together, by the end he was sleeping on the foot of her bed most nights.

I’ve been reading about the skater thrown into the Thames in 1999.
I didn’t know him, but I would see him at SB quite often.
So sad

Dog topic.
I was attacked by my next door but one neighbour’s dog when I was about 6.
I was on my way home from the school bus with my friend who lived next door but one and who’s parents owned the dog.
I’d been round there playing in the garden many times so was familiar to the dog. Never wound it up or anything, just this day it ran out of the garden gates and grabbed my by the leg, puncturing my calf etc.
Haven’t fully trusted dogs since and it really fucks me off if I want to go out for a nice walk and somebody has about 5 dogs, well even 1, off the lead.
Completely ruins my enjoyment and I get even more wary about my sons.
People who say “don’t worry, he won’t bite” can piss right off because a dog can make that decision at any given moment and when it does, it’s too late.
I don’t trust dogs at all, whatever the breed.

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