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's ear on a playground in Graz, and in southern Styria, a woman's thumb is severed by her neighbor's dog: expert Georg Resch fears that such incidents will increase. But not because of individual dogs or specific breeds: the owners are to blame.

A few weeks ago, a Staffordshire terrier allegedly jumped over a fence in Tillmitsch and seriously injured a neighbor: the woman's right thumb was bitten off and her left wrist was severely damaged. And on Saturday, a child in Graz was bitten on the ear. According to experts, the owners are to blame for not intervening when children were playing "wildly" with the dog.