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[–] li10@feddit.uk 129 points 6 months ago (91 children)

If my dogs ever tried to kill me, I’d just pin them both down. That’s the benefit of not having insanely powerful dogs.

IMO you shouldn’t have a dog that you can’t physically restrain. Any dog can snap and you need to be able to physically stop them if that happens.

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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 85 points 6 months ago (8 children)

me not knowing the breed looks them up via DDG

So she was basically mauled by the Demon Dogs from Ghostbusters.

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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 62 points 6 months ago (6 children)

and the two registered dogs were safely seized having been contained inside a room, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan police said.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 40 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If she was unable to control them, she should not have gotten permission to own them in the first place.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 60 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Definitely think owning dogs should require a license and a test of some sort like driving a vehicle.

Can't control a 120lb dog? Class B license instead of Class A license.

Only allowed to buy dogs under 100lbs.

Don't understand how feeding and training works? No license for you.

Licenses for being able to own non-fixed animals as well. Being able to breed dogs and cats needs to come with way more responsibility as well.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago (20 children)
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[–] liquidparasyte@pawb.social 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (34 children)

I wonder if Lemmy will be any more Normal about dogs than snoosite was

Update: prognosis is not looking good

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[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Didn't even need to put the breed in the title, we already know.

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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Very sorry for the life of this lady.

Shitbulls should be banned.

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 40 points 6 months ago (1 children)

From the article

From 1 February, it became a criminal offence to own the XL bully breed in England and Wales without an exemption certificate. Anyone who owns one of the dogs must have had the animal neutered, have it microchipped and keep it muzzled and on a lead in public, among other restrictions.

So I'm guessing she got them before they were banned and had an exception so she didn't have to have them destroyed.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 45 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or didn't and simply flouted the law.

There's a stereotype of people who own those breed(s) for a reason.

[–] keesrif@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The article did mention them as "registered", so I don't think this applies.

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[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Idk if it's the same everywhere but in my experience in America I have came across a huge range of canine breeds owned by a huge range of human breeds (quality of person) and 100% of the time the human was a caring person that loved their dog the breed is unnoticeable. On the other side, when the human is subpar the breed of the dog is more noticeable as an inverse correlation to how shitty the person is.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 23 points 6 months ago (10 children)

This is the dog equivalent of "guns don't kill people, people kill people."

But without the gun, no one would be killed by the gun.

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The woman, who was in her 50s, was pronounced dead at the scene in Cornwall Close, Hornchurch, and the two registered dogs were safely seized having been contained inside a room, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan police said.

A spokesperson for the Met said: “Police were called to Cornwall Close around 1.12pm … to reports of a woman attacked by a dog.

“These were registered XL bully dogs and prior to officers’ arrival had been contained inside a room in the house.

From 1 February, it became a criminal offence to own the XL bully breed in England and Wales without an exemption certificate.

Footage of an XL bully dog attacking members of the public in the street in Birmingham, including a 11-year-old girl who sustained shoulder and arm injuries, prompted an outcry in September.

In November 2021, 10-year-old Jack Lis was mauled to death by a seven-stone XL bully dog called Beast.


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