Top banana. Nice little site. Nice to see Peg gets her own little section too.

Great site Sean, another one to bang in the favourites column. Loved Peg's page, was an excellent read.



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Fozzer wrote on Dec 29^th, 2007 at 8:26am:


That's very sad, but more parents kill their own children annually than this sort of attack happens; food for thought.

And it's very unusual for Rotties to attack little members of their own "pack", even if they're poorly trained... it's a herding and guard breed, not an attack breed like Dobermans or German Shepherds.
  Many Rotties stand watch by the family nursery and they're known to be very gentle and patient with kids. My Peg seems to regard babies and toddlers as puppies- she shows very m,aternal behavior towards them and puts up with all sorts of abuse.

It's also possible that the dog did not really intend to harm the baby, but the panic reaction just made things worse.
I know it's asking a lot of anyone whose kid or sibling is in danger, but if you don't remain calm when dealing with a dog in any situation, you will make things worse before they get better.

I know a lot of people who constantly run into trouble with dogs, and it's usually because they immediately show fear or aggression when confronting a strange dog that seems agressive, which of course gets the dog more worked up.

beaky wrote on Dec 29^th, 2007 at 4:52pm:


Sadly they've had bad press for many years now. I remember when their were a series of incidents involving rotties resulting the death or serious injury of young children in the late 80s early 90s. Sadly it was brought home when completely unprovoked, coming out of our local vet (we were on the way in with our own dog) one jumped up at me, and was only inches away from my face by the time its owner pulled it away - quite scary for an 8 or 9 year old as I was then...

Nice simpit.. I read it when I was bored.. Have you gotten in all the controls yet or did I miss something.. I'd like to know how you made those rudder pedals.. Nice dog, too.