It is just frustrating to read the same excuses in each of the cases.
1. The press got it wrong, it wan't a Pit Bull ( couldn't do that on this one because it was confirmed by the police that it was.
2, The Victim must have done something to provoke it..... The remark about the 6 year old victim not being asleep, but maybe she moved or had the audacity to roll over while she was sleeping , and that must have provoked the nice dog. This is an especially often used type of excuse and to me it's like blaming rapes on the victim, when no other excuse can be fabricated..
3. The dog shouldn't have been left alone with the victim.. Well hello, when a dog is allowed in a home with other people living there, the dog usually can't be followed around and constantly monitored 24/7 to make sure it doesn't attack one of the people in the home. Having to live like that sounds more like your living wih a Tiger or a leopard as opposed to a dog.
I think that making non-sensical statements like these, as an excuse for what happened, deserves some sort of response challenging them, if for no other reason than to keep the focus on the animal that caused the tragedy and off blaming the victim or the press..... That is why I post in these threads.
IMO, it's the fault of the owner's & the dog. The dog mauled the child & for that should be pts right there. The owner should face a charge of negligent homicide & be imprisoned for AT LEAST 20 years. Although I actually think making them face the death penalty for what they've done wouldn't be farfetched.
We weren't there so we don't know what happened, but bobsk8, I sure wish you would have been next to me when I did a necropsy on a euthinzed 'pit bull'. The dog bit a 6 yr old child in the face "for no reason" as the child was quietly playing. The mother went into the kitchen to check on dinner. Well, after all was said & done, we were asked to perform a necropsy on this dog. Guess what I found down in the ear canal after noticing dried blood from the inside of one ear? The tip of a pencil. That's right, it seems "for no reason" turned into "when the child jammed his sharp pencil down into the dog's ear canal so hard the tip was embedded in the tissue". But guess what? The "vicious pit bull turns on sweet innocent child" damage was already done. And according to you, once again, I should have to pay by freely allowing the goverment to put all my dogs to sleep.
I'm not saying that the dog was provoked. No one was there so nobody knows & speculation doesn't help at this point. And God knows there are plenty of unsound dogs out there owned by humans with bleeding hearts that believe their love will change/cure them.
And one last thing, I read a couple different articles that stated the dog was a 'pit bull'/labrador retreiver mix. IMO, when a mixed breed does the attacking, you can't pick out just 1 of the breeds that make up the dog & place all the blame entirely on that breed.
And bob, you can do your damndest to make sure my dogs are PTS for no reason, but over MY dead body will someone like you come into my home, take my dogs, & euthanize them just because YOU don't like them. And for the record, I wouldn't trust your shepherd mix any further than I could throw it. How would you feel if the government came into your home & killed your dog just because I didn't like it? You'd be pissed & it seems you've conviently blocked all the past (& even present) issues with shepherds out there out of your head. Maybe we just all just play ignorant & blame someone else's dog for everything.
At this point all of my sorrow is with the girl & I hope she was not concious for this attack. As for her parents & uncle, I find it hard to sympathize for stupid people who know better yet care more about themselves than their own children.