IS IAN Coogan (Letters, January 15), suggesting that trespassers face a death sentence if they enter the property of someone who owns one or more rottweiler dogs, as was the case when David Kearney was attacked?

Mr Coogan, why don't you and other rottweiler-loving people get security locks on your doors and a professionally fitted burglar alarm?

Maybe you could even fit barbed wire round your property for protection.

But, please, please, not the rottweiler dog!

Nobody deserves to be torn apart for retrieving a football - or even for being a burglar.

K ROBINSON (Mrs), Bunkers Hill Close, Blackburn.

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