I feel like many people here have never had a dog for a lot of reasons.
but do not come to express your hatred of this animal on this forum.
A dog never attacks for fun;
either he is educated for this but in this case the will only do so on the order of his master;
or it is because he was beaten from an early age, something unfortunately very common in Thailand;

and generally by the kids; I see it do it every day and it hurts my heart because I know that one day one of these dogs will take revenge one way or another.
so he's afraid of humans and won't tell the difference between a kid and an adult.
If in addition it is a female who has BBs, her reflex will be to defend them.

Everything else is station literature,

Edited January 29, 20206 yr by Assurancetourix

1 hour ago, Beggar said:

Dogs that can seriously hurt or even kill people should not be allowed. 

Dogs shouldn't be allowed in whole Thailand since they can't take care of them at all...maybe 5% of the dog owners walks it, the rest has to sit in the garden all day long without any attention or correction.

58 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

how is it that never a single dog and among them pitbulls and other similar dogs have never attacked or bit me when I am very far from being fluent in Thai;
simply because I love dogs, I have four at home ,no pitbulls, only little ones , , I have had others before,

I have never beaten them

I doubt that the two year old, mentioned in this news report, tried to beat the dog.

12 minutes ago, Assurancetourix said:

A dog never attacks for fun;

That doesn't make much difference for the victims if the dog attacks for fun or not. 

PB are a psycho breed. I judge anyone who owns one

1 hour ago, BestB said:

Do tell how exactly they breed them to be violent?

God did it because rabies is a bit too obvious. Dog foams at the mouth and can legally be shot, so no mystery.
With the pitbull you have equal lethal potential, except you don't quite know when it's going to happen. Bit of a tease, and you cannot just blow them away. More's the pity.

5 minutes ago, Beggar said:

That doesn't make much difference for the victims if the dog attacks for fun or not. 

Look at the statistics and you will see that about 95 percent of the fatal or serious dog bites are caused by Pit bulls! The 2nd on the list is German Shepard's and they are a small fraction of the bites caused by PBs. Whatever the reason, these are the worst for attacks!

Buy a pepper spray or make your own with chilli powder and whatever else to mix with

2 minutes ago, onekoolguy said:

Look at the statistics and you will see that about 95 percent of the fatal or serious dog bites are caused by Pit bulls! The 2nd on the list is German Shepard's and they are a small fraction of the bites caused by PBs. Whatever the reason, these are the worst for attacks!

I got bitten by a Soi dog in front of a 7-Eleven here in Pattaya and also several times threatened by up to 8 dogs also here in Pattaya. This is my statistics. 

Dog of peace.

2 hours ago, Logosone said:

Where I live, Nong Han in Chiang Mai, there is a horrendous dog problem. An elderly neighbour next door has 5 dogs. Virtually every Thai house on the street has four or more dogs. Most of them do not have a fence and do not put the dog on a chain. The net result is that you have dogs coming at you when you walk the street, often in packs of 5 or more. Not to mention the dogs tearing open rubbish bags and urinating all over the bin, fence, everywhere.

 

I only go for walks carrying a big stick. But thanks to reading the above article I will now get gun that fires blanks on Lazada, as it appears the noise is more effective than any stick. Also ordered Spyderco knife just in case. The situation is that bad here.

Jeez ,sounds like a war zone out there.

I hope you get out alive !

2 hours ago, webfact said:

 

The landlord wants the dogs out permanently. 

As in lights out permanently

Edited January 29, 20206 yr by RichardColeman

2 hours ago, BestB said:

Do tell how exactly they breed them to be violent?

You don't have to breed 'em to be violent. Feral and semi feral dogs are naturally violent and territorial.

 

Try teaching or training a pack of wild dogs not to be violent. Packs of hyenas which are no more than wild dogs have even been known to take on a lion.

1 hour ago, Yinn said:

Today's pit bull is a descendant of the original English bull-baiting dog—a dog that was bred to bite and hold bulls, bears and other large animals around the face and head. When baiting large animals was outlawed in the 1800s, people turned instead to fighting their dogs against each other.

Perfect English today. Why not always?

2 hours ago, BestB said:

Do tell how exactly they breed them to be violent?

They already are

30 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

Buy a pepper spray or make your own with chilli powder and whatever else to mix with

You need a gun to put off a pit bull if you get attacked by one, sprays, hits with sticks etc useless.

5 minutes ago, stouricks said:

Perfect English today. Why not always?

Copy and paste.

2 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

3 hours ago, webfact said:

a neighbor came out and shot a gun in the air

Why didn't he just blow the head of that disgusting monster.

It had the child, or the mother, in it's mouth, that's probably why.

1 hour ago, Assurancetourix said:

A stick and / or a cyclist's bottle filled with water; a small squirt and you will see them quickly turn around.
By cons if the cops stop you with a gun, even if it fires blank, you're going to be in dirty sheets ...
Never forget that in Thailand sport number 1 is delation.
and then learn a little Thai or Lanna, the local language, and speak with them;
you will see, it helps ..

So if we learn to play 'delation', what ever that may be or speak a local lingo we may well be able to tell the the dogs to leave us alone.

 

Brilliant, why has no one else suggested that.

2 hours ago, Yinn said:

Today's pit bull is a descendant of the original English bull-baiting dog—a dog that was bred to bite and hold bulls, bears and other large animals around the face and head. When baiting large animals was outlawed in the 1800s, people turned instead to fighting their dogs against each other.

Nice copy and paste.

2 hours ago, BestB said:

Any dog can seriously hurt or even kill 

including poodles

As poodles are large dogs that shouldn't be a surprise.

11 minutes ago, stouricks said:

Perfect English today. Why not always?

I hear you but the "perfect English" is probably because of copy/paste. I think we have to cut some slack to PNY on this one.

1 hour ago, Logosone said:

I doubt a police patrol will check me for weapons in Nong Han though. Far as I can tell the sole job of police in Thailand is to collect fines from scooter riders and to take accident reports.

Wait until you fire a gun in public.

1 hour ago, Grumpy John said:

Put some bleach in the water. 

Why?

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Pornthip, 31, was hanging out her washing on Sunday and her son Chaichana, two and four months, was playing happily on his tricycle when the dog struck. 

 

Pornthip turned in horror to see her little boy being dragged into some banana trees by the ferocious beast.

Just a thought: Since the mother was well aware of the neighbour's dangerous dogs, maybe she is a bit negligent in allowing the 2 year old out of sight, outside.

Note in the OP picture what kind of "pacifier" is in the child's hands. Could this be an indicator of the mother's vigilance?

 

That said, I salute the mother for putting herself in harm's way to rescue her child!

2 hours ago, Logosone said:

Where I live, Nong Han in Chiang Mai, there is a horrendous dog problem. An elderly neighbour next door has 5 dogs. Virtually every Thai house on the street has four or more dogs. Most of them do not have a fence and do not put the dog on a chain. The net result is that you have dogs coming at you when you walk the street, often in packs of 5 or more. Not to mention the dogs tearing open rubbish bags and urinating all over the bin, fence, everywhere.

 

I only go for walks carrying a big stick. But thanks to reading the above article I will now get gun that fires blanks on Lazada, as it appears the noise is more effective than any stick. Also ordered Spyderco knife just in case. The situation is that bad here.

Yeah, I had the same problem until I did something about it. One guy had 8 dogs and many had 2-3 of them. Everyone running free and chasing me, other people and motorbikes. I went on a town meeting and just told them to keep their dogs inside their properties and set up fences. All other dogs I see after that I would beat the <deleted> out. Also filed my problems with the police, so they would know why I would beat the <deleted> out of them, so they can call it self defence.

In this specific case with a small boy and his mother hurt, I would have beaten up the owner instead. I have to say that the mother of the boy was a brave one. Of course reacted on instict, but it´s nice to see that somebody still have those instincts.

2 hours ago, Yinn said:

Hmmmmm

I don’t think that photo is the male dog.

 

 

They never said that. Anyway, remarkable of you to see that fact.
 

2 hours ago, Yinn said:

Today's pit bull is a descendant of the original English bull-baiting dog—a dog that was bred to bite and hold bulls, bears and other large animals around the face and head. When baiting large animals was outlawed in the 1800s, people turned instead to fighting their dogs against each other.

Somebody has been getting the daily dose of Wikipedia.

1 hour ago, Assurancetourix said:

I feel like many people here have never had a dog for a lot of reasons.
but do not come to express your hatred of this animal on this forum.
A dog never attacks for fun;
either he is educated for this but in this case the will only do so on the order of his master;
or it is because he was beaten from an early age, something unfortunately very common in Thailand;

and generally by the kids; I see it do it every day and it hurts my heart because I know that one day one of these dogs will take revenge one way or another.
so he's afraid of humans and won't tell the difference between a kid and an adult.
If in addition it is a female who has BBs, her reflex will be to defend them.

Everything else is station literature,

some things deserve to be hated and pitbulls are definitely on the list. Dogs will and do attack for no reason at all, they are sly creatures. Hundreds of thousands are treated in the USA every year for dog bites, yet the deluded still peddle the mans best friend and no bad dogs only bad owners nonsense.

9 minutes ago, neeray said:

Just a thought: Since the mother was well aware of the neighbour's dangerous dogs, maybe she is a bit negligent in allowing the 2 year old out of sight, outside.

Note in the OP picture what kind of "pacifier" is in the child's hands. Could this be an indicator of the mother's vigilance?

 

That said, I salute the mother for putting herself in harm's way to rescue her child!

Exactly. Keep the humans behind fences and let the dogs roam freely. 

43 minutes ago, stouricks said:

Perfect English today. Why not always?

Im guessing "cut and paste" or whatever the kids are calling it now.