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Licensing and owner checking would only work if enforced. Unfortunately puppies are not only bought through registered breeders, they can be bought from the neighbour down the road. I have had 3 Rots of my own and have trained another 3 for other people. My 3 were out of the same litter and free of charge cos the owner of the mother dog didn't know what else to do at the time....it was an unplanned breeding via a stray rottie. The other 3 were rescues that had received varying amounts of abuse.
There is a very small window available for retraining an abused dog...regardless of breed. Any age up to 3 years old a dog can be brought out of abuse aggression, after 3 yrs old to about 6 it can be done but is alot harder as the abuse aggression is pretty well ingrained by that age.
The dogs in the BBC article had been in the same family since puppy...they had been brought up well and trained with good manners, yet the stigma of the breed caused by bad training of dogs who have been abused and through that abuse become aggressive had forced the owners of the decent dogs to get rid of them for fear of their dog being labeled as dangerous, when chances are that would not be the case at all.
As with everything, the minority have caused problems for the majority.
As for a poodle not being capable of killing...it is more than capable. A small child playing with a dog...whether it be a poodle or a rottie...if that dog does not want to play anymore for any reason, it will turn and it will do as a wild dog does...it will go for the head and/or throat of what it feels is invading its space. A child grabbed by the throat by a dog will die.
No dog should ever be left without adult supervision around children, every dog is capable of biting a child and doing significant damage to that child.
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