Apparently Damian O’Connor would like to shoot my dog. It is about time we stopped pussyfooting around and advocated and implemented the destruction of any dog and breed of dog that is considered dangerous in New Zealand. No one is allowed to carry around a loaded gun and these dogs are just that. Three children [...]

An article in the HoS today shows the stupidity of the idea of “menacing breeds”. A child was bitten, and significantly injured, not by a Pit-bull or Bull-mastif, but by a Fox Terrier. This particular animal has not been put down and is still allowed to be around children – because it is small. While [...]

The MacDoctor post drought is over. Some idiot ran into the telephone pole outside of our house and succeeded in knocking us off the internet for a week. I confess, I rather enjoyed reading books and watching movies instead of rambling away on a MacDoctor post, but it was too painful to stay offline. Too [...]

Yet another child has been attacked by vicious dogs and severely injured. The dogs have been destroyed but the owner, unfortunately remains very much alive and able to own more dogs. Sure, he will be banned from owning dogs, but seeing as he is unlikely to have microchipped or licensed his previous dogs, this will [...]

Dog attacks always seem to make the newspapers. I think that this is partly due to the fact that, considering the large number of dogs in the country, serious dog attacks are rare. Dog bites are fairly common (I see them every week in the ED) but the vast majority of these are “nips” from [...]

I am on-call tonight and it has been really busy, so no meaningful blogging from me today. Do not despair! Here is an old post I wrote some time ago which might interest you: “The HOS of 25th March contains an article entitled “Strange but True”. It is a re-write of a daily Mirror article [...]