11 children injured in Blyth park dog attack

[bobmcfc]

Is it possible to cross a pitbull/ staff type dog with something bigger? Only reason I ask is my nephew and I were walking in France about 15 years ago when this man came along with this dog on a leash. My nephew said it was the biggest pitbull he'd ever seen. We stroked it and it was wagging it's tail . Neither of us are fluent enough in French to ask what type of dog it was . We tried and the FRenchman kept thinking we were asking the dogs name. As we didn't know word for type/kind/breed. It had all the pitbull features but was much bigger and looked leaner and faster. I'd put the dogs weight at around 10 stone. To this day it's always puzzled me as to what the hell it was.

Cane Corso ? I have one of these

 

[Phil1]

Cane Corso ? I have one of these

That's a belting looking dog. Mines a Canarian Presa, quite similar builds and looks.

 

[blueish swede]

Is it possible to cross a pitbull/ staff type dog with something bigger? Only reason I ask is my nephew and I were walking in France about 15 years ago when this man came along with this dog on a leash. My nephew said it was the biggest pitbull he'd ever seen. We stroked it and it was wagging it's tail . Neither of us are fluent enough in French to ask what type of dog it was . We tried and the FRenchman kept thinking we were asking the dogs name. As we didn't know word for type/kind/breed. It had all the pitbull features but was much bigger and looked leaner and faster. I'd put the dogs weight at around 10 stone. To this day it's always puzzled me as to what the hell it was.

Yeah, you didn't shout loud enough to be understood. Rookie mistake ;)

 

[idahoblues]

If everybody was armed, everybody would be safe against these savage beasts :)

 

[LWashington]

Could have been some kind of Mastiff or Boxer crossbreed, I had a pitbull boxer cross that wasn't far off a big boxer in size but was mostly bull terrier in appearance. She was a lovely dog, choked on a tennis ball when she was 3 unfortunately.

Cheers for that just looked for an image similar to the one we saw closest one i could find was this unfortunately site was down but could still view images. This is more or less exactly what we saw only it was a little darker coloured. Some kinda cross breed I suppose .

 

[aguero93:20]

Cheers for that just looked for an image similar to the one we saw closest one i could find was this unfortunately site was down but could still view images. This is more or less exactly what we saw only it was a little darker coloured. Some kinda cross breed I suppose .

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[andyhinch]

Not sure how most dogs would get enough exercise if they were kept on the lead.

 

[oakiecokie]

Not sure how most dogs would get enough exercise if they were kept on the lead.

Plenty if they walked `em to the pub and back.

 

[LWashington]

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[johnny on the spot]

I've worked in Blyth.

It'd be great if dogs could eat all the kids there, thanks.