Sharing my views on how to avoid your dog from becoming a menace.

DOGS: You gotta love em.

His Nibs.

The purpose to this Blog is to help with my writing skills and have pondered for quite some time what exactly I feel very passionate about, so basically I want to share my views with people living with dogs, people who love dogs but are scared maybe? or those people that are thinking about getting a dog, and think its going to be like Lassie (a famous film dog for the younger readers), well trained and ready to do exactly what you say. To the latter, I implore to think hard and long about whether or not you can handle and care for what is basically either a friend for life, or in the wrong hands, a ticking time bomb.

I was brought up from a young age with dogs of various shapes and sizes, From Chihuahuas to Great Danes, Jack Russell's to King Charles Spaniels.  All of these dogs had their own little personalities and traits that made them special.  Apart, that is, of the attack dogs.  My stepfather was a so called independent security guard and dog breeder, who would also buy and sell dogs from places like brick lane in the 1970's.  He specialised in Attack dogs, mostly German or Belgian Shepherds.  These dogs were kept away from the rest of the family, they were not what you would call, lap dogs.  They had been trained to attack people, sometimes with a sleeve (mostly on me) so that any intruder to a yard or a house would be deterred from their objective as a direct result from the ferocity of the dogs.  This was in the late 70's, early 80's and Staffie's hadn't become as popular as they have these days.  The point I'm trying to make is that these dogs, when trained to become attack-guard dogs then what you basically have at the end of a lead is a trained killer.  So why are the British Government dragging their heels when it comes to doing something about this issue.   What is it going to take to make the government understand how dangerous these dogs are and licence or force some kind of registration system for any kind of dog that could be lethal.  What is the attraction of having a dog that you could never let off the lead in fear that he or she would run off and attack and kill someone Else's dog?  I will focus my next blog on socialisation and how important it is, for any breed.   This is one of the most important aspects of a dogs early development.