Ban These Bloody Monsters

..Oh, they are banned. Then enforce the sodding ban.

Explanation --

On the day that Jackie Simpson was acquitted of manslaughter for allowing her chav son's pit bull to maul her 5-year-old granddaughter, Ellie Lawrencon, to death, Ems and I too had the misfortune to encounter first-hand one of these vicious, unnecessary beasts.

Minding our own business at 06:30 on our usual early morning stroll (me) / ablutions (her), Ems was attacked by a young pit-bull-type in the park near our home.

The monster was off its lead (illegal), unmuzzled (illegal) and in the company of a teenage chav (female, nearly (and should be classed as illegal)) who had absolutely no control over her unpredictable weapon.

It just tore into to Ems harassing, growling and nipping at her. Ems is a bit dim and tends to cower in these situations, bowing to the greater aggression of the other dog, instead of more sensibly fleeing. [Actually, thinking about it, being rag-doll compliant is probalby the better method of survival in this circumstance]. While she did initially bark to tell the other to bugger off, quickly, her barks turned to helpless yelps of intimidation and then pain.

With her creature's jaws clamped around Ems' back and sides, the foul peasant was next to useless and just kept apologising (innit) instead of actually trying to exert some authority over her shit or grabbing hold of the bloody thing to drag it off.

Eventually, after what seemed like an age but was probably only a matter of minutes, I extricated the bastard's jaws from my pet's rear. Luckily, we were only slightly bruised (me and Ems), shaken (her, literally), but no blood was drawn (either of us) and all's well.

But do Stoke Newington's police, the Met, the British government or its judicial system acknowledge the Dangerous Dogs Act of 1991? Anyone at Stokie's Safer Neighbourood Team ever going to call me back for this 'non emergency'?

Hell no!

These monsters aren't pets or companions. They're weapons and like guns and knives must be banished from our streets or only posessed in the face of severe penalty (chav owner) and destruction (fucking disgusting animal).