Expert after attacks:

“If the dog bites, the owner is the problem”

Georg Resch specializes in problem dogs.

(Bild: Christian Schulter)

A pit bull bites a boy on a playground in Graz in the ear, a woman's thumb is cut off by a neighbor's dog in southern Styria: such incidents will increase, fears expert Georg Resch. But not because of individual dogs or specific breeds: the owners are to blame.

A few weeks ago, it was a Staffordshire terrier that allegedly jumped over the fence in Tillmitsch and seriously injured the neighbor: The woman's right thumb was bitten off and her left wrist badly damaged. And on Saturday, a child in Graz was bitten on the ear. According to experts, this was the fault of the owner, who had not intervened when children were playing "wildly" with the dog.