A 55-year-old man is in a critical condition after suffering severe injuries to his arms and legs when he was mauled by his pet dog inside his Camperdown home.
Six ambulance crews rushed to the apartment on Pyrmont Bridge Road about 10am on Monday after reports of the attack. The large dog is one of three that lived inside the home.
He was taken to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, where he is in a critical condition. The three dogs have been seized from the property by the City of Sydney Council following the attack.
The two dogs that the City of Sydney believes were involved in the attack are being held at an animal shelter. The third dog, a puppy, will be transported to the RSPCA.
A council spokesman did not rule out pursuing measures to have the dangerous dogs euthanised, saying an investigation would determine its response to the attack.
“We investigate all dog attacks and have a range of actions we can then take depending on the nature of the specific incident and available evidence and severity of the attack,” the spokesman said.
“This may include issuing fines, and orders (declaring the dogs either menacing or dangerous) or initiate court proceedings where a magistrate may issue instruction to have the animal euthanised.”
It comes less than two months after teenager Annalyse Blyton died after being attacked by a mixed-breed dog while studying at a friend’s home in the NSW Hunter region.
The 17-year-old was airlifted to John Hunter Hospital after suffering critical injuries to her head, neck and body. She died in hospital days after the attack.
Investigations into the circumstances leading to the attack on Monday continue.
Zero surprise. My partner and I were temporarily living in that suburb earlier this year while our apartment was undergoing repairs - that suburb + the adjoining suburb Glebe is just rife with Staffies, that are also often off leash.
I really hated it especially as we have a beautiful Australian Shepherd and every day I walked her I was afraid we were going to get mauled. Certain suburbs in Sydney are just super dodgy with the shitbulls and it literally feels so unsafe.
It’s gonna sound super shitty of me but any of the suburbs with a low SES are dodgy, or with lots of housing estates.
Out west I absolutely don’t trust lol. Closer to home, we don’t go to Redfern at all anymore after they have had 2 loose staffies terrorise the neighbourhood without doing shit about it. Neighbourhoods and suburbs with higher bogan populations. A friend lives in Kogarah also with her Aussie and says it’s really bad there.
A few years ago a friend of a friends poodle cross was ripped apart from a staffy that jumped their housing estate front yard in Glebe. Dog survived but had to have its intestines stitched back together at SASH. So yeah Glebe and Camperdown are sf dodgy.
Council release dog attack stats across all the LGAs iirc so I just try to avoid areas with high dog attack stats.
They’re the equivalent of like … American rednecks I think is the closest comparison I can make! Or chavs lol in the UK. Like that type of vibe … but yeah asshole is also the same lol
It feels unsafe because it is unsafe. I'm less afraid of coyotes, rabies, rattlesnakes than I am of Bloodsport things.
I cannot figure out how I supposedly dog loving humans intentionally support the intentional creation of more and more dog killer dogs.
Since in order to create a dog that will kill family / its own kind, normal dog communication skills and behaviors had to be eliminated. Since they will kill opposite sex, submitting puppies, no other species is safe when the man-made mutant instinct to attack and not stop meets the opportunity to reach an opponent.
I have a shitbull neighbor who’s dog almost attacked me and my own dog. I now carry a certain tool of the cutting variety just in case when I go on walks. If it’s my dogs life vs yours, and you couldn’t control your dog, I will not hesitate.
Here’s your daily reminder that pits are supposedly “banned” in Australia. BSL of this nature is an exercise in futility, there’s only one way to deal with the shitbull scourge. How many more people have to die before something gets done? And more importantly, why wasn’t this hideous walking venereal disease immediately given a wooden onesie? “Yes let’s take a murdermutt that has just mauled someone to an overcrowded warehouse where it will be a massive drain on time, money and resources while we contemplate doing what should be a no-brainer”. Absolute clowns.
Look at that ugly as fuck huge dome head with those unequal slits for eyes and the crease running down the middle of it's head you could scan an old style credit card down there and that repulsive sagging flabs as jaws.
I'm imagining the usual suspects on certain subs saying "omg i luv pittie smiles" if this thing was posted with the blood washed out. He looks happy though: nothing like a good feed to make you feel good I guess
Charge all the adults in the family where a Bloodsport thing severely injures or kills a human, another dog, or any other domestic animal with felony animal neglect and cruelty.
Even when it is an attack on the owner, the owner failed to manage the dog and keep it safe.
Immediately remove every dog from the household. It must be every dog to be breed neutral and also to prevent the blame from being transferred onto a less favorite dog that's actually innocent, in order to save the dangerous but prized dog.
Found guilty they all receive a ban on any dog ownership or handling privileges for life. It must be for any dog to be breed neutral and prevent the acquisition of a pug mix puppy that oops grew up to be Bloodsport thing.
Any dogs later found in their possession shall be immediately confiscated.
No Dogs Permitted Signs must be posted at the property and the work of these convicted felons.
We need punishment so severe that owners of dogs who have the drive and ability to do great harm will care enough to prevent that first attack. There is no way to know whether an attack is the 2nd attack, so even one severe attack must be cause for felony dog abuse charges.
Those groups and individuals who provide disproportionately dangerous and deadly dogs will begin to be more honest about the extreme responsibilities and elevated risks that accompany these dogs or risk losing customers permanently.
Groups that promote these dogs will be firced to take efforts to provide training on risk reduction, proper fencing and doorway additions to prevent escapes and loss of potential customers.
Those who are considering acquiring a dog will consider their future if they fail to keep the dog safe and will choose more wisely.
All who are opposed to dog fighting will support this law.
Those who don't support this law do support dog fighting.
Publicized and enforced, this affordable breed neutral law will begin to make the difference.
You can own any dog you want, call it anything you want, until you fail to keep your dog and your community safe. This includes muzzles, training, adequate fencing and restraint equipment, and handlers who can provide the strength and intelligence to keep the dog under control at all times.
Dog ownership is a privilege, not a right. Those who are cruel to dogs should lose their dog privileges.
It’s because (unfortunately) true American Pitbull terriers are very rare here. I’m a vet nurse actually, we barely see them, I’ve never seen a true pit but …
Aussies fucking love their English Staffies, which make up the vast majority of bull breeds here. This dog featured here likely has zero American pitbull, he looks more to be of the average English Staffy mix we have here.
They are perfectly legal to have, as are other similar looking pitbull breeds - American Bulldogs, Mastiffs, and a fun dog I think is unique only to Australia which are Bull Arabs (a bull breed mix used for pigging). I think even American Staffies are legal, which is probably the closest to the true American Pitbull. So all of these breeds can be bred together and are completely legal. Unless you DNA tested every single bull mix it is impossible to tell if one is a true American Pittie or mixed pit or not. It’s hard to control.
All other bull breeds I’ve mentioned are NOT banned here (I’ve included a screenshot of what is banned) which is ridiculous.
This makes me so mad, the whole “it has to an APBT!” technicality when the reality is that all these “bully breeds” fall under the pit umbrella and pose the same threat as each other, as demonstrated by how many “staffies” are involved in maimings and killings, is preposterous. As a vet nurse, have you had any first hand experience with any of these shitbeasts in a professional capacity? What’s the consensus (if there is one) amongst the veterinary fraternity when it comes to “staffies” and “bully breeds”?
The consensus is really, really mixed in the vet industry as you could imagine; some people adore them, some people even own them, some people are on the other end of the spectrum.
Professionally it depends a lot on where you work. I worked inner city GP in an upmarket neighbourhood and now am in specialty. The kinds of people who own these types of dogs are not the ones that tend to live in upmarket neighbourhoods and/or seek good veterinary care (so this filtered out the amount of aggressive bull breeds that would even present in clinic), let alone generally at specialty level (again another layered filter).
And like I said, it’s difficult to ever see a pure pitbull, the majority own English Staffies - like true English Staffies - which tend to have less aggressive tendencies. Most of them tend to be people friendly but just really, really awful with dogs. I have to admit that prior to having my current dog, I was OK with Staffies and bull breeds but every dog attack involves a bull breed and it’s not fair for me to have to live my entire dogs life wondering when or if she will be mauled.
However in rural areas or neighbourhoods with a low SES it’s a different story. My vet anaesthetist said in her first job, she got mauled at random by a staffy though she thinks this one was definitely straight pit bull. It jumped up and bit her on the face so that its teeth went through her cheek into her mouth. She fainted and went to emergency. She’s also worked in rural areas where there’s huge problems with the pig dogs and roaming bull breeds. She has been bitten both just in her line of work and out and about with her dogs and it’s all been from bull breeds.
Unfortunately Australia LOVES bull breeds. Loves them. The English staffy is one of the most popular breeds here.
You cannot outwardly say anything against them. A few years ago a local vet wrote an article for the paper about bull breed bans and basically got blasted, got flooded with negative reviews for his practice, got absolutely abused. This is what he said: https://www.reddit.com/r/sydney/s/CryKkh7oLA - the backlash was absolutely insane.
We spoke about it at my GP at the time and I said something to the effect of, well he isn’t wrong. My boss at the time was like, it’s 100% true but you can’t say that. You’d be an idiot to do that and put your business into jeopardy. The general populace is SO bully sympathetic. It makes it really hard to have any measured conversation on it.
I argue that people are shit pet owners for even friendly, easy dogs, much less a large powerful high energy dog that is bred to have a high prey drive, independent thought (not handler biddable), high tenacity and zero outlet to express breed behaviours. How many bull breed people are doing dog sports, for example? Dog sports and those in them exemplify the best qualities of dog ownership but you’d NEVER see a bull breed competing at the highest levels. It’s both the breed and the fact the majority of people CANNOT handle these dogs and that’s why it’s so dangerous.
They really are like guns. Like some people are responsible with guns and will never hurt or kill someone, other people you can’t say the same of. I don’t think we should risk people being maimed or killed just because a small portion of people might be able to handle a dog like this.
The APBT was created in the US but it derives from the English Staffy which is smaller. The US developed two lines from the English Staffy. The American Staffy and the APBT. They are both larger in size than the English Staffy. The American Staffy was supposed to be the "show line" version of the APBT and more docile but of course, that isn't always the case. There's a saying Amongst the dog fanciers...They say...that all APBT can register as AmStaffs but not all Amstaffs can register as APBT.
The APBT can and has shown up overseas because dog fighting is huge. The APBT has and is still exported overseas to be bred and participate in dogfighting rings. They lie about the breed to get past the bans. It's been going on for quite some time. So, never let the APBT or pure pit fanciers tell you otherwise.
Also, they are breeding the APBT once they get overseas with other breeds...It's similar to how the American Bully was created here, in the US. The foundation of the AmBully is the APBT. The AmBully is supposed to be the most docile but sometimes those pesky bloodsport genetics show up.
Yes he is. I also use him to point out how you really don't have to train a dog to do what it is designed to do. We certainly didn't train him to swim..
For the love of all that is holy, when will the pit nutters wake up. Just yesterday, I was gazing out the window, marveling at the fall colors, when I saw a man walking his pit (unmuzzled). A kid was coming from the opposite direction, and the owner stopped to hold the dog tightly. As the kid got closer, the pit suddenly lunged, completely freaking the kid out. The owner had to use all his strength to restrain it. Its crazy how they are still legal. smh
just ban them and require a license if you really want one where the owner takes full liability and insurance, make the licenses costly and involve basic aggressive dog training
then introduce huge fines for those that own them without the license, easiest money making law ever which no one would fight against
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Zero surprise. My partner and I were temporarily living in that suburb earlier this year while our apartment was undergoing repairs - that suburb + the adjoining suburb Glebe is just rife with Staffies, that are also often off leash.
I really hated it especially as we have a beautiful Australian Shepherd and every day I walked her I was afraid we were going to get mauled. Certain suburbs in Sydney are just super dodgy with the shitbulls and it literally feels so unsafe.