Topic: | Re:HSCIC latest dog bite stats published | |
Posted by: | Claire Moran | |
Date/Time: | 19/05/15 15:25:00 |
All your reasons are valid Charlotte - if I am back in time I intend to watch the programme on puppy farming where animals are kept in squalid conditions often with very little food or water, on concrete floors with no bedding, the females are bred for litter after litter until they are exhausted and the pups taken away far too young, leaving both them and the mother upset, not handled kindly and shoved into cages at pet shops. If they are cute and lucky they will find a kind owner who however may be puzzled why the dog is difficult or depressed; others may be treated very cruelly (so many awful stories on facebook, a little puppy was beaten to death with a stick by a child recently, many are starved) or encouraged to fight other dogs, sometimes locked in a trunk until one kills the other. For fun. Personally I am amazed that so many badly treated dogs are so forgiving, but understandably not all of them are. The two times I have been bitten was as a child, left unattended with a corgi who do tend to nip, and another time when I tried to break up a dog fight. Neither time would I blame the dog. |