Just as a matter of interest, what are the actual figures relating to XL Bully attacks? Have they risen or is it just that they are in the media more?
As far as I'm aware they dont collate the information about dog breeds and just present the numbers as total dog attacks, do we know?
The last dangerous dogs legislation was pretty vague and could be interpreted in multiple ways, a bit like new knife laws to be honest.
With dogs you can get something that looks a certain way from many different routes and I don't know if anyone on bere has seen the genetic testing companies for dog breeds but I know of some people who got pups from the same eastern European rescue litter, got em genetically tested by different companies and ended up with VERY different results. Same litter.
To be fair, the one Ive seen looked pretty much like a Pointer to me.
I assume if the police do test breeds they use the company that gives them the result they want and if I had a dog at risk of that I'd be tempted to get a second or third opinion on the matter. I sure wouldn't trust the Metropolitan Police...
Oh, hang on theres more... yeah.... here it is.
I wouldn't trust the Metropolitan Police to do testing on a dog I loved.
Or to conduct an unbiased investigation either, oe even to police a womans vigil after one of the Met police had killed a woman.
Thinking on, I was maybe right the first time.
As far as I'm aware they dont collate the information about dog breeds and just present the numbers as total dog attacks, do we know?
The last dangerous dogs legislation was pretty vague and could be interpreted in multiple ways, a bit like new knife laws to be honest.
With dogs you can get something that looks a certain way from many different routes and I don't know if anyone on bere has seen the genetic testing companies for dog breeds but I know of some people who got pups from the same eastern European rescue litter, got em genetically tested by different companies and ended up with VERY different results. Same litter.
To be fair, the one Ive seen looked pretty much like a Pointer to me.
I assume if the police do test breeds they use the company that gives them the result they want and if I had a dog at risk of that I'd be tempted to get a second or third opinion on the matter. I sure wouldn't trust the Metropolitan Police...
Oh, hang on theres more... yeah.... here it is.
I wouldn't trust the Metropolitan Police to do testing on a dog I loved.
Or to conduct an unbiased investigation either, oe even to police a womans vigil after one of the Met police had killed a woman.
Thinking on, I was maybe right the first time.