Aggressive Dog - Page 2

Thank you, Dave, for your good wishes.

You have realised the point I was trying to make in my original post: If there had been mesh behind the bars on the gate, this unfortunate incident would not have occurred. I do appreciate that some dogs can be very aggressive when guarding their territory. A responsible owner knows their own dog and would take measures to ensure that  injury and/or suffering are not likely to be caused to another animal unnecessarily. It only takes a few metres of mesh and a packet of cable ties!

I wish you every success and happiness in your new life in Spain.

Kind regards

Thank you, JenJen, for your comments - and for pointing out the obvious to Matthew!

Kind regards

No problem!! I've had many dogs over many years and I really do see both sides of the gate (so to speak!)

It bugs me when people that haven't read the original post properly reply with something accusatory.

I hope your pooch is OK

JJ

Here's my take and advice on the incident.

1. Sparklieboots brings his/her dog for a walk and keeps the dog on a lead and has control over the animal.

2. Sparklieboots sees another dog and his/her dog tries to befriend the dog.

3. Another dog again carries out a savage attack on Sparklieboots dog causing serious wounds and Vet-care costs not to mention trauma.

4. Sparklieboots is the innocent victim of an uncaring dog owner who apparently couldn't give a whit about Sparklieboots, Sparklieboot's dog or anybody else. The uncaring dog owners won't even supply a simple mesh to prevent such occurence. 

5. Sparklieboots fails to contact the uncaring dog owner. Understandable, because if one enters the property it is likely that the terrier will attack again causing more injuries or worse. 

6. There are laws in Andalucia concerning dogs and dog owners. It is obvious that the terrier was not under full control of its owner. No mesh was visible and the muzzle obviously wasn't fitted properly.

7. What if . . . . Sparklieboots had his grandchild with him and the grandchild was attacked by the terrier? I bet Sparklieboots wouldn't be a bit happy explaining to the parents of the child that the dog was merely protecting his territory and a lesson learnt in the process. 

8. Sparklieboots feels that this is not the first attack carried out by the terrier and probably has no reason to believe that such an attack will not happen again. If I were Sparklieboots, I would contact the local policia either in person, by email or by letter and supply details of the incident, time and place etc. I bet the policia local will investigate the matter and bring the whole episode to  a conclusion. Failure to contact the policia (in my opinion) would ensure that further attacks by the terrier will take place. I don't see much point in contacting the uncaring dog owner.

And you still haven't got it right Matthew, There was NO muzzle involved. when sparklieboots said 'he thrust his muzzle thru the gate' she meant the dogs nose, The terrier in question was not muzzled!!!!!!!

If I have got this wrong sparklieboots please correct me. 

Wrong again,NO muzzle involved...

Why does it sound like you want to blame spaklieboots Matthew?

JJ

Very unsympathetic. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen to you

A muzzle was mentioned. Muzzle = Item to prevent a dog biting somebody. That's why I asked for clarification in my first post on this thread. The OP's initial post was not 100% clear and this subject is a serious matter.

And Jen-Jen, I'm in no way trying to blame Splarklieboots (I don't know how you jumped to that conclusion but knowing some of your posts I'm not surprised that you did). I'm on his/her side.

I must stress that it is necessary for the safety of people and other dogs that this matter should be immediately reported to the police.

Jaydora65,

Not at all unsympathetic, thats in your imagination. I was merely pointing out that it is never a good idea to go up to a dog behind a gate, they are protecting their property.