Woman dies of heart attack

[JoMichelle]

This was in todays news in the UK. What are your thoughts?

Brave mum-of-five killed by pet Alsatian | The Sun |News

[Scarlettsmom]

Pretty horrifying. She'd only had the dog six months. There are so many variables that could have led to this attack. It's a horrible thing for her children to have witnessed.

[Warrior09]

Lord gawd that is a tragic story. To be honest idk what to say about this other than im shocked and saddened for the children and family.

[LARHAGE]

I love how they use a photo of a Schutzhund dog to show the mad aggressive German Shepherd, theres just not enough information to even have an opinion.

[JoMichelle]

The comments people have posted on that story are blaming the owner for keeping such a big, active dog in a small apartment. I don't know, no one can know. It's tragic, but I HATE how the media present any dog after incidents like these. There will be a frenzy now - of the media printing dog attacks, not just recent ones but they will dig out anything they can on GSD's, you watch. I'll post them here if they do!

[Gwenhwyfair]

Yup and pic of a child mauled in a separate incident.

A sad sad story, very tragic... no matter how it happened.

BTW doesn't the U.K. already have some pretty tough laws regarding 'aggressive' breeds?

Originally Posted by LARHAGE

I love how they use a photo of a Schutzhund dog to show the mad aggressive German Shepherd, theres just not enough information to even have an opinion.

[Stella's Mom]

How horrible. I echo the other's sentiments on this post. There is no way of knowing what was going on with the dog. If the dog had been abused prior to her owning him and genetically how the dog was wired. How incredibly sad. How frightful for the children. Everyone involved in this sad story is scarred for life.

[Jessiewessie99]

The whole story is sad. But just by they way they wrote in some ways was over the top and exaggerated, such as " the Alsatian was chewing her face." Sorry I have a hard time believing that.

And this person's comment is just too stupid.: "As I've said before! Kill the entire breed and the problem won't happen again!"

[JoMichelle]

Yeah we have The Dangerous Dogs Act. Pitbulls, Japanese Tosa, Dogo Argentino and Fila Brasileiro are all banned. There are multiple petitions trying to ban rottweilers.

German Shepherds in the UK are seen as loyal, family pets and are respected. The current situation in the UK is 1) People are breeding Staffordshire bull terriors like crazy, and training them for protection or fighting. 2) People are taking dogs from the hands of people advertising there pet free to a loving home and using them as bate for training the fighting dogs.

Something seriously needs to be done. I know it's complicated but I'm all for some kind of licensing to own dogs. Maybe far-fetched, but the amount of cruelty I see daily, and pets being passed around constantly because circumstances change or people realise they've made a mistake is really getting to me. It's literally all I can think about lately! I'd hate german shepherds to become the next "Chav" fighting dog

[Emoore]

It's horrible and sad, but what gets lost in the shuffle is that angry boyfriends and husbands kill thousands of times more women than GSDs do. In front of their children, even. Then they kill the children. Nobody's proposing to ban men. (nor should they)

People do love to build entire movements around one or two sensational events, ignoring things that are equally horrible but much more common.