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Originally Posted by Steffo
One thing people haven't mentioned is stray dogs. How often do they attack? I'd say stray ones, that have been stray for a long time, would be considerabley dangerous. Animals do not think in a way as complex as human's do. The dog could grow up thinking "human's give food", and gets strayed for whatever reason, he could quite easily confuse "human's give food" with "humans ARE food" and herein lies the problem.
You know that Azaria Chamberlain thing, where the Dingo took the baby? I don't know much about that whole incident, but, in such a scenario, if a bunch of stupid tourists feed a wild animal, it will think, "humans give food". Then those tourists leave, and a new lot come who DON'T feed the wild animal, it will quite easily get mistaken and think "Humans ARE food", and then attack someone. 99.99% of the time in domestic or wild animal attacks, its the fault of stupid people, not the animal itself.
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The stray ones would be more dangerous, so "why are they stray" and why havent they been picked up isnt that the job of the RSPCA, oh thats right they are behind the ban aswell,maybe less work for them.Alot has been said of what to do,and alot of suggestions have been made,i started by using the link to Bob Carrs email and i shall continue from there.Now as for humans being food doubt that will ever happen, the Azaria thing is a totally different kettle of fish, for one did it REALLY happen and also the Dingo is and always will be a "WILD" animal as with the Wolves of the USA.
The thing that ****es me off the most is all the hard work has already been done for the government by the AVA (Australian vetrinary Association) over extensive studies that they have been doing for years on this country and others on what works and what doesnt with dog ownership and they found that banning breeds was not the answer. In Great Britain they tried the banning thing but found that the "SOFT APPROACH" (as some have put it) acctually worked, using education in schools,a licencing system and most important of all Following through with it all.That seems to be the hardest part "the follow through".It is against the law to walk a dog without a leash but how many people have actually been fined for this, probably somewhere close to 0% but the law has to start somewhere.
Some have mentioned its all good as long as the family are safe,but to a great amount of us that inclueds having a dog as part of that security,and they are also part of the FAMILY.Mothernature said about the cattle dog being bought into suburban life,hence the EDUCATION side again Cattle dogs for gods sake it is even in the name "Cattle" dont get much cattle in suburbia but we think they are cute and bring them into OUR lifestyle not THEIRS. I myself am guilty of this in bringing a border collie into a suburban back yard yet she is also a herding dog.As i said right at the beginning it is "US" that is doing this to the dogs of today so it is up to "US" to help put it right again.