[joeysteele]

These stories are awful, there is no need for anyone to be harmed by a Dog if the owner makes sure other people and indeed his Dog are safe and secure.

Adequate fencing, the Dog always on a lead when walked,only allowed off where it is totally safe to be and no one else around.

It is protection of not only other people that comes from those simple guidelines but protection for the owners and the Dogs too.
Equally however,I wish people too would instruct their children not to approach Dogs,the Dog I lost earlier this year was really gentle, the one I have now is a times more unsure of others.

However, as with my last beautiful friend, my Staffie who I lost, often I had children running up towards him and which I got abuse at times for telling them not to and pulling him away from the area.
Being called a meanie for not letting the child near him.

Absolutely no one needs to be hurt by a Dog if all the precautions and right guidelines are followed for the safety of all, others, owners and the Dogs too.