Prison for dog owners whose animals attack.

[antiqueshell]

This should be standard practice for these irresponsible people. It's seems to me that such animals are essentially "lethal weapons", that are more dangerous than guns because the animal cannot make rational actions no matter how well they are trained.

Examples:

Locally here in SC. My opinion is that the laws are WAY too lax and as a result these owners don't think there are enough serious consequences in order to shape up and take the proper control of their animals.

Prison ordered in Australia for this owner.

WarwickDailyNews


Prison time for a US woman.
DailyGazette

 

[Rolla07]

Agreed. Control your pets...and your children.

 

[SuperDave456]

Same thing with releasing dogs in the country so that they can "Go find a nice country home".

The folks in the City should get to pay for all the livestock that "Fluffy" kills off for food/fun.

 

[daves87rs]

Originally Posted By: Rolla07
Agreed. Control your pets...and your children.


+1

 

[JHZR2]

Originally Posted By: Rolla07
Agreed. Control your pets...and your children.


+1/2

Pets definitely. Kids, to a point. Im all for discipline and control, but at some age, like 13 or 14, they become mini adults, and while imature, still have a good idea what they are doing... And are smart enough to be malicious, can lie convincingly, etc. At some point the poor parents may be helpless in that situation. Not to make excuses, but some of these horrible kids I read about just scare me, and I wonder if it was ever possible for the parents to actually control these crazies.

But thats a discussion for another day. Pets? Definitely.

 

[HTSS_TR]

How do you discipline/control a misbehave teen ?

 

[SaturnIonVue]

Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Originally Posted By: Rolla07
Agreed. Control your pets...and your children.


+1/2

Pets definitely. Kids, to a point. Im all for discipline and control, but at some age, like 13 or 14, they become mini adults, and while imature, still have a good idea what they are doing... And are smart enough to be malicious, can lie convincingly, etc. At some point the poor parents may be helpless in that situation. Not to make excuses, but some of these horrible kids I read about just scare me, and I wonder if it was ever possible for the parents to actually control these crazies.

But thats a discussion for another day. Pets? Definitely.

+1 with both the pets and the kids! With little doubt "defective" adults were once "defective" children. Rarely have I ever seen or heard of so called "good" children going "bad" unless they became drug addicted or mentally ill in adolescence, or young adulthood. I have observed a number of cases where a child or adolescent was deemed "bad" from early childhood and only got worse as the years went by. It seems they rarely suddenly revert to being "good." Especially, after they have accumulated a rap-sheet that is hard to live down.

Please note that I'm using terms like "defective," "good," and "bad" relative to behavior that conflicts with law. Also, remember those "weird kids" that were in your school? The ones that everyone seemed to think were strange? Do you think that eventually they changed into un-weird or un-strange adults? Yes, yes, I know there are always exceptions to any premise.

 

[Pop_Rivit]

As a dog owner and therapy dog trainer I have zero tolerance for people who choose to be irresponsible when it comes to their animals.

 

[raffy]

Yep, we've had one of those "lethal weapon" dogs in our house! We had a German Shepherd who turned out bad when he got into his "teenage" years (around 9 months for a dog). He bit all 3 of my kids at least once each and my wife several times. This was even after we had given him some serious obedience training from 5 months on. It got to the point where the only person he would respect was me, but I certainly didn't respect him. I was ready to take him out to the country and give him some lead poisoning, if you know what I mean! I was also concerned about liability should he ever attack someone outside our family, so in the end we took him to the vet, and even he agreed that we should put him down after telling him what he had done. So we paid him $100 and he took care of it. It was sad, but we did what we had to do.

To this day, I still don't know what I could have done differently to make this dog turn out better. Some dogs are just rotten apples and such need to be culled out of the gene pool. Please note that I'm not knocking on the German Shepherd breed as I've met some very fine GSD's over the years, but this one was definitely a bad one.

 

[LeakySeals]

I think some dogs are born to bite. And its hard for the owner to make a decision to put them down. I'm living that nightmare. If anyone is interested I can talk about it. I don't have the heart to put down my loyal little toy dog. After whats happened over 9 years, I should have.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Originally Posted By: Rolla07
Agreed. Control your pets...and your children.


+1/2

Pets definitely. Kids, to a point. Im all for discipline and control, but at some age, like 13 or 14, they become mini adults, and while imature, still have a good idea what they are doing... And are smart enough to be malicious, can lie convincingly, etc. At some point the poor parents may be helpless in that situation. Not to make excuses, but some of these horrible kids I read about just scare me, and I wonder if it was ever possible for the parents to actually control these crazies.

But thats a discussion for another day. Pets? Definitely.


Had that been the law when I was a teen, I would have done WHATEVER IT TOOK to get my father locked up. If that meant torching a church...then the church would have burned.

 

[volk06]

Originally Posted By: HTSS_TR
How do you discipline/control a misbehave teen ?


No cellphone or internet? Actually make them work?

 

[antiqueshell]

Originally Posted By: LeakySeals
I think some dogs are born to bite. And its hard for the owner to make a decision to put them down. I'm living that nightmare. If anyone is interested I can talk about it. I don't have the heart to put down my loyal little toy dog. After whats happened over 9 years, I should have.


Has it bitten anyone besides your immediate family members (neighbors,ect)?

I think a lot of dog owners don't think about the complications that can come with the bite itself.
The bite may not be serious or immediately life threatening, HOWEVER, what if that neighbor has a diabetic condition and the bite becomes infected? (easily in diabetics ) those complications could end up causing SERIOUS life threatening illness or DEATH!

If you can't be certain that the dog will not bite and or you cannot control it you need to do the responsible thing to your fellow human beings and euthanize your dog. Humans come first.

 

[JetStar]

Originally Posted By: HTSS_TR
How do you discipline/control a misbehave teen ?


When I was a teen back in the '70s, I got tuned up a few times by my Dad. I deserved it. You can't do that now, so we suffer the consequences.