| Fergie,
I wouldn't call media "junk" those reports about children killed by dogs. Even though, it's a fact that the media portrays "one side of the story" (sometimes, quite distorted and blown out of proportion), it is also a sad reality of life that many children (17 according to stats from the Center for Disease Control) have been mauled to death by Rotts.
Think about this, the majority of those unfortunate incidents could have been PREVENTED! Those disgraceful incidents (that hurt us all, Rottie fanciers) occur mainly due to a combination of factors, such as:
-bad breeding (wannabes and the unethical type, producing either shy or vicious dogs)),
-poor upbringing and training (no comminment to raise that pup properly),
-irresponsible dog owners (people that out of ignorance or neglicence allow or instigate their dogs to become dangerous around people; which it's totally unnaceptable!),
And so forth. The point is, do all the right things and never leave kids unsupervised inter-acting with dogs (particularly, big dogs).
The key to this issue is: RESPONSIBLE DOG OWNERSHIP... Many people couldn't care less.
[This message has been edited by German Vanegas (edited March 04, 1999).]  |