All Hail Most Awesome Kitteh
 

Most Awesome Kitteh saves a little boy from a dog attack. Most Awesome Kitteh is Johnny-on-the-fucking-spot, too. The only way Most Awesome Kitteh could be more awesome, is to have foreseen, and, averted, the attack in the first place.



Good girl, Tara.

Someone get Most Awesome Kitteh some tuna. Stat!

Don't you find the cut and edited shots of the dog approaching a little, er, contrived?


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I think they are just cutting between several cctv cameras.

What Dana said.

Home surveillance system. Multiple cameras.

According to theGuardian, it was the neigbour's dog, a chow-lab cross. It has been handed over to authorities and is likely to be put down.

I saw it on the news tonight. Amazing cat.

Okay, okay, pardon my scepticism but it didn't occur to me that an ordinary private dwelling would have so many security cameras ... They don't need 'em anyway, with GuardCat™ on the premises!

Wow , what a great animal! Superhero! It could be worse indeed altough these images seemed pretty bad to me....:sniff:

If they don't put that dog down, I bet that kid's dad will. I know I would.

I'd probably feel the same way if it were my kid, but, I don't think the dog should be put down killed (let's call it what it is), for one instance of not being the perfect dog. Make the owner pay a fine and pay for obedience training, and allow him to have the shit sued out of him.

If there's a pattern, though, he's gotta be dealt with.

Cameras are getting to be cheap as dirt. You can get a decent ready made system w/4 cameras + recording ability and a monitor for less than $300.

That's pretty far from not being a 'perfect' dog for an instance. A dog who will rip into a kid is a dog who will rip into a kid. He didn't accidentally get too playful and nip the kid, he stalked up to him, and he was tearing into him.

I love dogs, too. But if a dog has a propensity to do what that dog did, no amount of 'sit' is gonna knock that out of him. It's sad, but it's true.

Apparently the dog is only 8 months old. In which case it may be rough play (playing at stalking prey).

Not sure I'd want to take the risk of owning the dog - but every chance given an experienced dog handler that the dog could be fine.

Every dog, every single one, big or small, 'has the propensity' to do what that dog did. Do we kill 'em all pre-emptively?

As far as not being able to 'knock that out of him': Have you heard of any of the rescued Michael Vick dogs harming anyone, post-rescue? Some of those dogs are used as therapy dogs. Around children, and old people. And those dogs were bred to fight. That's the only reason that they exist. And those dogs haven't attacked anyone that I've heard about.

Maybe that kid kicked the dog in the nuts the day before, or 15 minutes earlier.

Also, obedience training is a damn sight more than 'sit'.

I can already see that I'm gonna be in the minority on this, so Ima shut up now.

Everybody with a dog go kill it, now. It's a vicious beast.

They could make risky dogs wear dentures to be removed before they go outside.

good fucking gawd...why is everything i post either ignored outright or met with hostility?

the dog attacked a kid. that's all i need to know. don't be so violent in your anti-violence crusade, mmmkay? what is your particular problem with 'me'? I don't remember kicking you in the nuts...that's usually met with grovelling on your part. i'll try harder.

yeah, we know what 'nice' is.

I wasn't gonna comment because I don't want my anti-dog to show.

Truth is, I have never owned a dog, but I've known many in my lifetime. I'd estimate that about 95% of the dogs I've encountered have been good dogs. And 5% are just mean. Those mean dogs should be kept inside, or on a chain, or behind a very secure fence. If they get out and attack people who are not provoking them, they should be taken from their owners and put down.

Our next door neighbor has three dogs. For a while there, they (actually it was probably their kids) were very negligent and their dogs would get out and be running free around the neighborhood. Two of the three dogs were good dogs. One was a mean SOB that would bark and growl at us in our own yard. Or if we pulled in to our driveway, which was on the opposite side of our property from the neighbors land, the fucking thing would bark and growl at us. All its body language saying that it was going to chomp our asses if we got out of the car. Well, after this went on for a while and we kept complaining to the neighbors, they are finally good about keeping it secure. So a mean dog is just fine if the owners are responsible. But if the owners can't be responsible, then the dog should be taken from them. And put down, it it's attacked anyone.

It's very sad but human-aggressive dogs must be destroyed.

We have plenty that are nice.

I agree with that.


Eight month old dogs are a little like early adolescent kids - they're overgrown puppies with a hormone rush. And that's one powerful looking 8 month old dog. Dog like that needs some careful handling and clear boundaries. And a full vet check to see if there are any underlying problems.

I wouldn't want to deal with this dog - I'm not qualified either formally or through experience for that kind of aggression - but I can think of a few people who'd probably be able to turn that dog around and have him grow up just as well-behaved as any other dog.

Dayum. Looks like Ortho is back and posting under Infi's account.

Infi, you got waaaaaaaaaay more out of that than I could have ever intended. In no way do I have any kind of a problem with you. In fact, I'm sure that if you go back and look, you'll find that I've not disagreed with you very often at all. And everything you post is not met with hostility. I'm sorry you read anything in my post(s) as hostility directed toward you. There was none, I assure you.

I don't know why you reacted the way you did. I will assume there was a reason.

Maybe you were having a particularly bad day (like we all do occasionally), or something.

I hope your Saturday was better.

:)

I am about up to here with the pit bull advocates saying ... see, see, it's not a pibble ... pibbles are good. Go back to slurping your $7 soy milk responsibly harvested organic bean latte. Sorry. I have two of them at work.

Since my granddad's dog bit my youngest sister's eye, and my older sisters ear and cheeks... I think every growling dog - "mean dog " like someone here said- should be kept away from children of strangers.... I love dogs and had some myself... But some of them just can't be trainded or handled... Just like there are people...
wich i also get away from when they start growling... :D

Dogs are like people, some just need killin'. :yesnod:

Oh grav...you know I love ya...but yeah you pissed me off. You only need look back and see that you kinda sorta were saying I am of the mind that all dogs are terrible dangerous creatures and should be put down 'in case shit' but that just isn't true.

I've been helping my friends, who don't have a ton of cash, to be able to keep the dog that fell into their lives, medically, and to train it properly...so maybe I'm a bit sensitive to any perceived allegation that I am anything but an animal lover. But, I love kids more, and I don't see a communal lovely place for dogs who bite (and that's a generous description of what we saw on the tape) and children.

Anyhow, peace out dude. ;)

Awwwww, sharin' the love, that's nice, now Grav won't have to spank the monkey.

:)