Re: Friend痴 9-year old daughter in surgery after stray dog attack.
A former co-worker raises English Bull Mastiffs. He always tells the story of arriving home from a grocery shopping trip to find half the local police force parked around his house. Neighbor boy about three or four years old, I forget, had got in trouble with his parents and fled thru the gate to Ed's back yard. One of Ed's huge male Mastiffs was in that back yard. The dog was staying within a few feet of the child and every time a parent or police officer tried to enter the yard the dog would growl and the hair would stand up on it's back. When Ed made into the yard the child was swinging on a swing set and the dog had positioned itself between the boy and the gate. When the dog would look at the boy it would wag it's tail. The only reason the police hadn't shot the dog was because it was staying so close to the child. My friend calmly called the dog to him and retrieved the child. The child would always try to get into Ed's back yard when he got in trouble.
Ten years ago he got $2500 a pup from people who would put the dogs with a young child. Said he had never had a complaint about one acting aggressive but had plenty of accounts of the dogs protecting children and families. The biggest complaint people had was the sheer volume of slobber the dogs spread over everything and the amount of dogfood they could eat. Those dogs were bred to protect people.
As a side note the University of Tennessee was also coming and taking blood and tissue samples from the dogs. From the papers Ed had the line had existed for more than fifty generations with none of the dogs having cancer.
RSKY
A former co-worker raises English Bull Mastiffs. He always tells the story of arriving home from a grocery shopping trip to find half the local police force parked around his house. Neighbor boy about three or four years old, I forget, had got in trouble with his parents and fled thru the gate to Ed's back yard. One of Ed's huge male Mastiffs was in that back yard. The dog was staying within a few feet of the child and every time a parent or police officer tried to enter the yard the dog would growl and the hair would stand up on it's back. When Ed made into the yard the child was swinging on a swing set and the dog had positioned itself between the boy and the gate. When the dog would look at the boy it would wag it's tail. The only reason the police hadn't shot the dog was because it was staying so close to the child. My friend calmly called the dog to him and retrieved the child. The child would always try to get into Ed's back yard when he got in trouble.
Ten years ago he got $2500 a pup from people who would put the dogs with a young child. Said he had never had a complaint about one acting aggressive but had plenty of accounts of the dogs protecting children and families. The biggest complaint people had was the sheer volume of slobber the dogs spread over everything and the amount of dogfood they could eat. Those dogs were bred to protect people.
As a side note the University of Tennessee was also coming and taking blood and tissue samples from the dogs. From the papers Ed had the line had existed for more than fifty generations with none of the dogs having cancer.
RSKY
