When animals attack … Londinium Rottweiler edition
From Aunty …
A 78-year-old man has died hours after being mauled by his rottweiler dog as he lay on an east London street.
Witnesses said James Rehill “looked like a doll” as the animal shook and bit him in Plaistow, on Sunday morning.
Residents tried to free Mr Rehill but it was only when police officers discharged six fire extinguishers at the dog that it released its owner.
Mr Rehill was taken to hospital suffering from severe head and facial injuries and died later that night.
“There was a man lying on the floor and a dog was over him, licking and biting him.
“He looked like a doll, the dog was pulling at him.
“There was blood all over his face.”
Mr Rahman described how residents had tried to distract the dog by hitting baseball bats against a wall but the animal did not respond.
He said: “There must have been 10 to 12 police cars but nobody could do anything to get the dog off him.
“Eventually one officer used a fire extinguisher to scare the dog off.”
A police statement said armed officers were called because the dog was “dangerously out of control”.
Local taxi driver Bill Collins said he regularly saw the man walking his dog but he did not believe the animal was a “mad dog”.
He said his officers “put their lives at risk” to protect other members of the public.
March 21st, 2008 at 7:15 am
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April 2nd, 2008 at 11:16 am
it has nothing to do with the type of dog. my mother owns a poodle that more vicious than a pitbull. its how the animal is raised so stop- bashing the poor dogs and start bashing the owners who arer raising them this way
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:18 am
you people are just a bunch of uneducated animal haters. go eat a fucking cow. and your murdered son or daughter.. i mean its the same thing. get some education. idiots
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Opinion is rarely given on the Samwise blog, but thanks for yours, as it is all subjective you have made grave assumptions about my attitude towards animals. With these types of stories I always side with the animals, i certainly do not hate animals and very rarely eat one, or my own offspring, but thanks for the suggestion.
I do not however subscribe to the “awww isn’t it cute” attitude towards animals, if that is the sort of story you think I should cover then you have seriously come to the wrong place, don’t let the door slap you on the arse on the way out.
As for the nature nurture argument of animal aggression, neurological studies of animal aggression is very well researched, to say it is always nurture is naive but has a large degree of truth to it. The truth is we do not know why the animal in this story attacked, and we probably never will, dogs as it turns out don’t like to talk about it. The difference between different breeds of dogs is not the level of aggression but in the amount of danger they pose should they turn violent.