Vicious dogs = Vicious owners?!

People with vicious dogs may be vicious too -study

People who own vicious dogs such as pit bulls have significantly more criminal convictions -- including crimes against children -- than owners of licensed, gentler dogs such as beagles, researchers reported on Thursday.

A study of 355 dog owners in Ohio showed that every owner of a high-risk breed known for aggression had at least one brush with the law, from traffic citations to serious criminal convictions.

And 30 percent of people who owned an aggressive breed of dog and who also had been cited at least once for failure to register it had at least five criminal convictions or traffic citations.

This compared to 1 percent of owners of low-risk, licensed dogs such as poodles, beagles or collies, the researchers reported in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Hmm... what does it say about the owner of the dog that ripped off a boy's face?

A MUM of four sobbed as she was jailed for a dog attack in which a child had his face ripped apart.

Toni Badcock, 30, had hung her head throughout the hearing at Peterborough Crown Court which heard how four-year-old George Brown needed 200 stitches in his face and would be scarred for life.

She had been in charge of partner Michael Feehily's powerful American bulldog Buddy when it savaged George near his Huntingdon home in August. Badcock, of Thongsley, Huntingdon, had also been in charge of Buddy when it attacked a group of children - including George - in May.

Judge Neil McKittrick told Badcock the original attack should have been a "wake up call" to her and Mr Feehily.

He said: "I have come to the conclusion this was a tragedy waiting to happen. It is a telling feature that you were unable properly to control this powerful dog, with the result that George received these grievous injuries."

Judge McKittrick also expressed concerns that a powerful dog like Buddy had been
re-homed by the Wood Green Animal Shelters with Mr Feehily on a housing estate
where children lived.