I don’t doubt that responsible pet ownership would make a significant dent in any kind of attacks. Animals are animals and need to be trained and monitored.
I wish they’d go after the owners more, by all means, but in cases like this, it’s too late for the animals. I don’t think that any animal which has reached this stage of aggressiveness can ever really be rehabilitated, or more importantly, trusted, again. These kind are the ones that absolutely need to be destroyed.
“I wish they’d go after the owners more, by all means, but in cases like this, it’s too late for the animals. I don’t think that any animal which has reached this stage of aggressiveness can ever really be rehabilitated, or more importantly, trusted, again. These kind are the ones that absolutely need to be destroyed.”
I agree with this absolutely. If my dog ever bit someone, unless it was to defend from an attack, I would have her euthanized. I don’t think we should keep human aggressive dogs alive when so many good dogs are dying in shelters. However, if the laws focused on prevention/responsible ownership, I believe we would have a significant reduction in attacks, as Calgary has shown is possible. Most aggression cases are not due to genetic flaws (only a handful of defects express themselves this way, for example rage syndrome, which affects many breeds including spaniels), but due to lack of socialization, training, and neutering. So many things can be prevented if people are vigilant early on in training bad behaviors out of their dogs and showing them they don’t need to be the alpha to survive in the pack.