Cambridge postman badly hurt in dog attack

[TrueBlueTerrier]

sorry but he knows the score if there was a prob he shouldnt have gone to the place ,and as for rotties being dangerous a load of bollocks they are a lovely breed and yes the can be what most people call aggressive this is beacause of there loyalty to their owner and propetry

Sorry but before passing a comment it may be best to check all the links and get full facts.

Mr Davies was savaged outside a property in Trumpington on the outskirts of Cambridge.

Here are 2 captures from the BBC video at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/camb ... 797370.stm

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that gate dont look ajar to me,so why didnt he post the mail in that box outside then and from the looks of the place you know its going to have some kind of security and i love rottweilers they are great dogs

It was ajar at the time according to reports - it was closed the next day after the attack - they did not film the actual attack.

[97gaz]

The trouble is though most dog owners have no idea what their dog is like when they are not there. I've been bitten on numerous occasions though thankfully not serious enough to need medical attention (other than a tetanus jab) . I've lost count of the number of times the owner has said afterwards, "Well he's never done that before".

Got bitten by a staffy on the knee about 6 years ago and the owner still refuses to believe his dog bit me. Still has the hump that he got a letter about his "lovely" dog. FFS his wife was standing talking to me when it bloody bit me and saw the blood running down my leg!!!

Had a recorded just this week and when the woman came to the door I asked her to make sure the dog (which has already had me) couldn't get through to the front door and she got huffed about it.

As far as I'm concerned if a property has a dog then we should be making sure that there is a box outside of the property so we're not put at risk.

Obvously this didn't work for Keith and I hope he makes a good recovery and sues the arse of this bloke.

Funnily enough I've never met a bad Border Terrier or grehound/whippet

[axeman]

all rotweillers / and asccociated nasty breeds should be destroyed most are owened by macho chavs just trying to be the hard guy shoot them all i say

speedy recovery to the guy who's been mauled by these dogs

[fothsn]

Totally shocking!


Have posted a thread on this on another forum, couldn’t imagine what the bloke went through absolutely horrific :(


Anybody heard any news? Have they managed to save his arm?

[theargyspy]

CWU area rep phoned me yesterday to tell me that Keith had just had a third operation on his arm that morning (Xmas Eve) and that Doctors were optimistic...if/when i hear more I will post on this thread

[TrueBlueTerrier]

that gate dont look ajar to me,so why didnt he post the mail in that box outside then and from the looks of the place you know its going to have some kind of security and i love rottweilers they are great dogs

Mr Davies was filling in for the regular postman on a round when the dogs got past the gates of a large property.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7799594.stm

[k979aaa]

I can only wish and hope he recovers from the ordeal of one's worst nightmare's it is not just the physical injuries but the mental and psychological injuries too!. My thoughts and best wishes are with Keith and his family at this time.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

that gate dont look ajar to me,so why didnt he post the mail in that box outside then and from the looks of the place you know its going to have some kind of security and i love rottweilers they are great dogs

Mr Davies was filling in for the regular postman on a round when the dogs got past the gates of a large property.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7799594.stm

http://m.mirror.co.uk/ms/p/tmg/mirror/v ... s&cat=News

Anthony said the dogs had burst through a magnetic side gate as Mr Davies was delivering letters.

He went on: 'It seems both dogs threw their full force against the magnetic gate and it flew open. He tried to run but the dogs lunged at him. By the time we reached him he was in a neighbour's garden with one arm already half ripped off. I'm still in shock. It was just horrific.'

[not me]

i cant believe your posts underpaid
you seem to be determined that somehow that was this guys fault?
he was on the street where any member of the public could be
how do you think a child would have come out against those two dogs?

[brothermagrew]

An interesting and thought provoking letter by the Kennel Club.

http://www.staffords.co.uk/kcpress/ddasgroup.htm

[TeeferTiger]

I think it's awful. I was bitten by a dog after only being in the job a few weeks and I wasn't even in that dog's garden, I was next door! Luckily all I needed was a tetanus jab.

There should've been something in his walk log about the dogs but if they actually came OFF the property and attacked him then prior knowledge wouldn't have helped him anyway.

As someone else quite rightly said, what if there had been children playing on the road outside the property and these dogs just decided to push thru and maul them? Would we now be saying it's the kids' fault for doing what kids do?! How dare they be on a public right of way and get in the way of 2 vicious and obviously mental dogs?

Anyone who thinks that this is a perfectly acceptable situation and that the postie is to blame should experience what he's going thru and then see whether they feel the same way.

[johnnyp]

What a terrible thing to happen to a colleague Get well soon Keith and a speedy recovery from all at RMC.

[opgpat]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 054143.ece

Another sustained Rottweiler attack to the arms, this time against someone who was actually feeding and looking after the dog. Rottweillers are NOT unique in being sometimes very aggressive or unpredictable but when they do attack they are so powerful the the damage they do can be life changing. They are far too powerful to be allowed in the domestic environment full stop.

[BELIAL]

Bang up the owners for 12 years for attempted murder. Dogs do what dogs do, some of it is nature some of it is training. Drive a car at 70 then decide to have 10mins shut eye and subsequently plough into a crowd at the school gates, youll get banged up. Out of control 70mph cars do what cars do,it ain't the cars fault

[NWpostie]

Rotweilers, Dobermans, Pitbulls, Alsations, Japanese Akita are some of the breeds I wouldn't mind seeing extinct and consigned into the history books.