[westendlass]

About ten or eleven years ago a rottweiler went on the rampage around the Thwaites Rd area in West End, Ossy. It attacked several dogs including a friends scotty dog, which was terribly injured and had to be put to sleep. It also attacked a little jack Russell that was on a chain in someone's back garden, and finally bit someone who was walking her dogs. She escaped worse injury because one of her dogs set on it and it ran off. The dog was caught and eventually put down, I never found out who owned the dog although I think the owners were found. It was reported in the Observer at the time. But, chipped or not, it wouldn't have made any difference to the damage that dog caused because the animal was out on its own, obviously disturbed and dangerous. Why anyone would want to keep a dog like that in a domestic situation is beyond me. Personally though, as a dog owner, I think chipping is a good idea if only that you have a better chance of being reunited with it if it ever runs off.