What is the point of the Dangerous Dogs Act when there is a man marauding with an illegal pit bull in south London and the police are not arresting him? My friend rang me in hysterics recently after the beast all but savaged his little Patterdale terrier in Kennington Park.
The pit bull picked him up in his mouth and started shaking him. When my friend slapped the pit bull with his umbrella, it let go of his dog, ran over to an old man, grabbed his Shitzu and shook that like a rag doll until it was pouring with blood. The old man fell over as he tried to save his dog and the pit bull owner screamed at him as he lay in the mud. My friend called the police, the guy grabbed his dangerous dog and ran off.
When my friend next spotted them in the park he called the police again. They came out and questioned him, but he told them his dog was a Staffie cross Labrador and they let him go. My friend demanded the police investigate further to establish the breed.
They have his address but, so far as my friend has been able to ascertain from them, have not been round to his house to conduct any checks. Of course they haven’t. They would much rather go round to some nice middle-class person’s house and slap a destruction order on their Jack Russell.
The builder boyfriend’s poor old dad had his little dog put down a few years ago because the kids next door taunted it so much it jumped up on one of them. It didn’t bite, scratch or injure them in any way. But the family reported it as an ‘attack’ and the dog was duly declared dangerous and taken to the vets to be euthanised.
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