Dog Attack - Any Advice?

[cuthound]

Sorry to hear about your dog, hope he makes a full and quick recovery.

 

As a rescue GSD owner, I know how unpredictable they can be. I am currently taking mine to training sessions to try and socialize him with other dogs, but would never dream of letting off the lead if there are other dogs likely to be present. The trouble is that there are too many irresponsible dog owners around (including my dogs previous owne, who failed to socialise him, play with him or exercise him).

 

Very popular "old remedy" here, for copious bleeding is to shake Cayenne Pepper onto a wound. Hurts like Hell but stops bleeding very quickly. Not sure about using it on an animal though.

Sounds like it works by the pain taking your mind off the bleeding

[Loafer]

Thanks again for the sympathetic posts. We did ring the police and they confirmed that it wasn't a reportable offence, but that we could try the local council. I'm going to give that a try tomorrow but we can only offer them a description - as posted here in another thread.

 

I'm thinking that even if that dog had never bitten any other dog in the past, it might now develop a bit of a taste for it.

 

'A bit of a taste' - can you see what I did there!!

Edited November 2, 2015 by Loafer

[Starcoaster]

That might be the difference, council rather than police-it is the dog warden or dog section of the council that deals with orders for dangerous dogs, rather than the police, who just enforce them, so maybe try that.

Even so, were it me I'd have been tempted to quote the act at them and ask them to explain themselves?

Some of the recent tweaks to the law only came in in May of this year, but one would hope the police might keep up to date with the laws they are supposed to enforce!

Edited November 2, 2015 by Starcoaster

[Jerra]

That might be the difference, council rather than police-it is the dog warden or dog section of the council that deals with orders for dangerous dogs, rather than the police, who just enforce them, so maybe try that.

Even so, were it me I'd have been tempted to quote the act at them and ask them to explain themselves?

Some of the recent tweaks to the law only came in in May of this year, but one would hope the police might keep up to date with the laws they are supposed to enforce!

I have been slow on the uptake. It has only just occurred to me to be an offence under the dangerous dogs act it does not have to be a dog on human attack. It just has to make the human concerned that they might be injured and I am sure fighting off a couple of Boxers would make anyone concerned.

 

The police really shouldn't be getting away with saying it has to be a dog on human attack, no attack is necessary.

[madcat]

I agree , in the end it would do much for the welfare of animals if the law was enforced . Nobody wants their beloved pets harmed .

[Loafer]

It seems from Gov.uk that it should be reported. Trouble is, we don't know who the owner is, or where he's from. We're unlikely ever to see him again.

 

Mrs L also doesn't want to have to spend even longer at this location (still awaiting another vet appointment), to start a tangle with the council or the police, when it is very clear that nothing will happen anyway.

 

There's not going to be any highly satisfactory public flogging as an outcome.

[Jerra]

It seems from Gov.uk that it should be reported. Trouble is, we don't know who the owner is, or where he's from. We're unlikely ever to see him again.

I would have thought merely alerting the police to the fact there had been a nasty incident should (particularly if there have been other reports) at the very least make them aware to watch out for future problems.

 

Admittedly no public flogging (the public could be invited to help if there was ) but if everybody reports incidents surely it will help raise the police awareness, particularly now that we all know:

 

1. Humans don't have to have been attacked merely concerned for their safety.

2. Courts can consider Dog on animal attacks as coming under the definition of dangerous dogs.

3. These facts are politely pointed out to the officer receiving the report.

[Loafer]

I would have thought merely alerting the police to the fact there had been a nasty incident should (particularly if there have been other reports) at the very least make them aware to watch out for future problems.

 

 

We both rang the police. Same fobbing off, pointing us at the local council. There didn't seem to be an option to force an incident number out of them. It was almost the sort of response you'd get if you tried to report a wasp sting.

 

The only annoying thing is, I have a traumatised dog in considerable pain for the next 2 months and I'd quite like to thrash someone!

 

ETA: And that's not to mention being £630 lighter!

Edited November 2, 2015 by Loafer

[Jerra]

 

We both rang the police. Same fobbing off, pointing us at the local council. There didn't seem to be an option to force an incident number out of them. It was almost the sort of response you'd get if you tried to report a wasp sting.

 

The only annoying thing is, I have a traumatised dog in considerable pain for the next 2 months and I'd quite like to thrash someone!

I would expect the fobbing off but if people in future know that it is an offence and report it and as Star Coaster says get them to explain why not if they don't take it seriously. Things might slowly change protecting lots of innocent animals (not to mention people) from what your dog is going through.