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[QUOTE=DtheP47;1117321]OK west endless your dog may be all sweetness and light, the exception that proves the rule maybe? So why do I see more and more people out walking their dogs carrying sticks these days? No not the fetch it Fido type of stick more the crook or cudgel type. It's just an observation but it does seem more and more the trend this last few years.[/QUObreedwIts not the breed of dog that's the problem with attacks its the idiots who walk them without proper control. Our dog was attacked last year at the end of our path when my son was setting off on a walk and some bloke (in his sixties) thought it was OK to walk his Alsatian along off the lead. The dog launched itself at Arnold and put four puncture wounds under his neck. If he was an aggressive dog he could have taken its head off but, as I mentioned before, he's soft and came off worse. Our last dog was a little Border Lakeland and he too was attacked by a (different) Alsatian off the lead being walked by an older man. People are too quick to tar every Bull breed with the same brush but any breed can be aggressive and its the person in control of the dog who's to blame (and they're not always young thugs either)!