What to do if a dog attacks.

Another day another dog attack.

Dogs cost everyone

When a dog injures someone

Here's a sample letter to send to your Local Area Commander of Police (in NSW)


We have some very effective laws in NSW to deal with savage dog attacks, such as has just occurred in the Blue Mountains (3 year old girl severely injured and possibly disfigured for life as well as emotionally traumatised). These must be used to punish neglectful and irresponsible owners.

We hear of too many dog attacks where the owners' disregard for other people's peace and safety is not brought home to them, for the safety of the community and those who live near them.

This recent dog attack, for example, would seem to fall under section 35A of the Crimes Act. On this basis the owner/controller of the dog/s is looking at 10 years in jail. I draw your attention particularly to subsection 4.

Very obviously, the adults present at the time did not do things to prevent the dogs inflicting grievous bodily harm on the poor girl. Of course, the dogs should be destroyed. But the adults in control of the dog/s must face the consequences of their dereliction of the duty imposed on them by the law.

For convenience here:

35A   Causing dog to inflict grievous bodily harm or actual bodily harm
(1) Cause dog to inflict grievous bodily harm A person who:
(a)  has control of a dog, and
(b)  does any act that causes the dog to inflict grievous bodily harm on another person, and
(c)  is reckless as to the injury that may be caused to a person by the act,
is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 10 years.
(2) Cause dog to inflict actual bodily harm A person who:
(a)  has control of a dog, and
(b)  does any act that causes the dog to inflict actual bodily harm on another person, and
(c)  is reckless as to the injury that may be caused to a person by the act,
is guilty of an offence.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.
(3) Alternative finding If, on the trial of a person for an offence under subsection (1), it appears that grievous bodily harm was not inflicted on the other person but that actual bodily harm was inflicted, the person may be found not guilty of the offence charged but guilty of an offence under subsection (2) and be liable to punishment accordingly.
(4) Doing an act includes omitting to do the act In this section, a reference to the doing of an act includes a reference to omitting to do the act.

AFUDAW

Sydney: Daily Telegraph June 2017

Another fkng unrestrained dog at work.

Islam is on OUR side!

Unbelievable good news. Islam is with the Anti-dog League!

Victory! Man vs dog, and wins!

From Daily Telegraph p. 9 19 May 2017

Free range dog menace

The public agrees!

The missing laws

The dog laws in NSW are pretty good. If only councils would enforce them seriously!

But, a couple are missing:

Negligently failing to contol a dog causing serious injury: 5 years, $20k fine, restitution to victim; ...death: 15 years, $50k fine, restitution to victim's family.

Recklessly failing to control a dog causing serious injury: 8 years, $40k fine, restitution;...death: 20 years, $100k fine; restitution.

The penalty would apply to the person who is in proximate charge of the dog, or the owner, or the contoller of the property where the dog is known to habitually reside.

Negligently is where the person is passive and has not been warned, recklessly is where the person urges the dog on, fails to respond reasonably to a warning by any person, where the dog has previously attacked or is a dangerous dog or has the dog in a public place.

Currently the penalties for a dog causing death or serious injury are trivial.

But, what to do...

From the previous post, what to do if you are in the circumstances of the owner of the dog being attacked?

There's plenty of advice on the internet; some of it ill-informed and stupid, but here are a few thoughts:

If the dog has latched on, grab a stick (or carry a short piece of 20mm dowel) work it into the attacker's mouth and shove it hard down its throat.

Same stick, gouge the attacker's eyes.

Push as hard as you can on the attacker's throat just at the back of the jaw: use closed fist, as fingers can easily get injured if the dog snaps at you.

Land on the attacker's back with your knees between its shoulders, and pull the front legs apart to dislocate the joints.

Lift the hind legs. This may distract the dog. If you are strong enough pull them apart to dislocate the hips if possible.

Insert the dowel from above into the dog's anus: hard and fast. Probably fatal, but certainly painful.

Use a spray of cloudy ammonia, oven cleaner or disolved draino in the attacker's face aiming for eyes or nose if possible.

Hard blow cross the attacker's nose, seeking to break it (that is, really hard).

Note that dogs are fast and strong. Any action that you take has to be with full force: no mucking around with a light tap.

Kicking, hitting the dog's torso will likely do NOTHING, so don't bother.

Check here.

Here we go again!

Spectator and dogs

Great article in the Spectator on dogs and defecation.

Dog deterrent

I've bought a Dazer ultrasonic dog make go away.

It works pretty well on non angry dogs (so far). For angry dogs I'd love to use this, but a poke down the throat with a sharp stick will have to do.

For a contrary view, and some amusing comments.