Another girl mauled to death by dog.

[imp]

If you had control over the dog laws..what would you change to prevent this ever happening?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2487849/Leicester-girl-dies-bitten-dog-Mountsorrel.html

[p4pking]

Sad, doubt there's any legal issue over it though. Sounds like a tragic case, must have been horrific for the mom. Just looking at the picture of the poor girl next to that big ugly mutt my first thought was I would never let those two things together unsupervised under any circumstance, but I'm sure the mom really believed it was friendly. Thing is if it's a rescue dog in a new home you never know for sure. If you have small children it isn't worth a snowballs chance in hell anything could ever happen just so you can have a freaking pet as well.

Maybe there should be more onus on either the shelters or people rescuing dogs to actually know what kind of temperament the creature has before you allow it into a home with small children. Could be that the mutt should have just been shot as many of these stupid pit bulls and other aggressive breeds should be, I don't know.

[Beanz]

Education. You are never going to prevent tragedies like this from EVER happening but you can reduce the likelihood of them occurring. Re-homing a rescue dog is not a good idead for somebody with a small child. Re-homing a rescue dog who clearly has a number of breeds in it that are all bull based with a musculature and bite that strong should again make alarm bells ring. Any dog can bite but a dog that strong and a child that small is a recipe for disaster should everything go wrong.

THIS IS NOT THE DOG THAT KILLED HER but what the hell was whoever let this situation happen thinking ?



Any animal however loving and loyal, has a unpredictable element to it's nature. As a parent you try to protect your child from risk but you can not then introduce such an element of risk into a young child's home and be surprised when a dog you have to walk with a harness who is three times that childs weight and was originally bred for bull baiting suddenly reveals itself to be a danger.

THIS IS THE DOG THAT KILLED HER

[p4pking]

Exactly.. I have a big husky cross that I rescued, he's the friendliest guy in the world but he has barked at kids in parks etc before so I no longer take him there off leash( I love how this is my biggest interaction with children). Wouldn't dream of letting him alone with a small kid no matter what though, if he ever bit a child in any fashion I would be half tempted to stab him myself and I'm about as sure as you can be he wouldn't do anything.

[walrus]

Just another reason to get a cat. I started a thread to warn everyone but no one listened. A cat might have just scratched the poor little girl to teach her a lesson. The cat is smart enough to know that a scratch and a hiss are enough to teach a person, they wouldn't feel the need to exert enough energy to maul someone. Very sad for the little girl and her family. In all seriousness perhaps it is not the wisest thing to do to leave a child unattended with a dog but that scene plays out a million times a day with no adverse effects. I can tell you one cat I had years ago became very aggressive. My neighbors actually complained to me that my cat was beating up their German Shepard. It was funny at first but he got worse and actually attacked a family member. I brought him to the vet only to find he had a brain tumor that led to his aggressiveness. I had to put him down. Moral of the story being this shit happens, love your pet but be aware

[p4pking]

Your neighbours German Shepard was a bitch then. My dog would eat any cat smaller than a Lynx if they were in a room together, but a cat would be way more likely to do anything to a kid. If cats were the size of a bulldog they would be murderers.

[walrus]

Your neighbours German Shepard was a bitch then. My dog would eat any cat smaller than a Lynx if they were in a room together, but a cat would be way more likely to do anything to a kid. If cats were the size of a bulldog they would be murderers.

To be honest I have had both cats and dogs. When a dog runs at a cat the cat usually runs away. If the cat didn't run the dog sometimes doesn't know what to do. That's when the cat takes advantage of the confusion and lands on the dog with twenty claws sticking out. I have seen happen many times. And yes, there are dogs who would continue at the cat ripping it to pieces but there are also cats that will gladly fight to the death getting the dog pretty good in the process.