How Far would You go for your beloved Pet??

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I agree and disagree...

If the dog outright attacks someone and the dog wasn't provoked, then yes I believe the dog should be put down. That's too dangerous of a situation and it will happen again. If the dog was provoked, then no I don't believe it should be put down.

Every case is different and I believe they should be determined by those merits alone and how the dog is. I also believe if someone has a dog that bites someone and they are being poor owners, then the dog SHOULD be taken because if nothing serious happened this time, it will the next. I just don't believe killing something solves the problem because there just going to be another case similair out there unless people are educated.

There was a story like that not too long ago where a couple dogs killed a baby. The mother or gma went outside to smoke a cigarette and the dogs mauled the baby to death. In that case the dogs were abused, improperly housed in crates all day and neglected. The dogs were put down I believe, since one of the was extremely aggressive.

To you they may not be, but to others they are. I don't go overboard with my cat, because I want her to be a cat not a baby but I think of her as my baby. Id do anything for her and went through a lot just to get her.

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barberking12 said:
i would have to disagree imo if my or your dog attacked your child would you get rid of your dog or your child i would shoot the dog in the head no matter how i liked the dog or how long i had it no love compares to a child and ya if you were a millonaire 60000 dollars is nothing but if your a normal middle class citizen you would not spend that for an animal thats a years worth of a house rent would you take the roof from your kids head to pay for a dog surgery or something i sure wouldnt
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Your own opinion.. but this is barbaric action to me.. when i was growing up my little sister started blowing air into our pet dogs face.. the dog would jump at the bubble of air and bite at it.. in just a fleeting second the dog jumped to close to my sisters face and the dogs tooth hit the side of her skin near her eye.. she needed to have stitches .. my parents did not blame the dog... it was lack of supervision for the child.. all of us other kids admitted we should have stopped her from playing this way.. but being children ourselves we did not expect anything to come of it... this same girl is a savor to sooooooo many dogs it would make your head spin.. and i am so thank ful that my parents looked at the whole situation and did not pre judge the innocent animal.......
 
Red Devil said:
Your own opinion.. but this is barbaric action to me.. when i was growing up my little sister started blowing air into our pet dogs face.. the dog would jump at the bubble of air and bite at it.. in just a fleeting second the dog jumped to close to my sisters face and the dogs tooth hit the side of her skin near her eye.. she needed to have stitches .. my parents did not blame the dog... it was lack of supervision for the child.. all of us other kids admitted we should have stopped her from playing this way.. but being children ourselves we did not expect anything to come of it... this same girl is a savor to sooooooo many dogs it would make your head spin.. and i am so thank ful that my parents looked at the whole situation and did not pre judge the innocent animal.......
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that was lack of parenting on your parents fault
 
barberking12 said:
that was lack of parenting on your parents fault
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absolutely.. but that is why it is important to take into consideration why the dog bit someone.. there are many reasons.. some of them totally not the dogs fault.
 
I was bit very seriously by one of my dogs once, but it wasn't her fault and it would have been completely wrong to have her put down because of it. It was actually caused by one of my other dogs because they were fighting for dominance and my arm was an accidental casulty, but if you considered her background and the fact that she was severly abused by previous owners it would have been easy to blame her and say that it would happen again(it never did).
 
Inglorious said:
I was bit very seriously by one of my dogs once, but it wasn't her fault and it would have been completely wrong to have her put down because of it. It was actually caused by one of my other dogs because they were fighting for dominance and my arm was an accidental casulty, but if you considered her background and the fact that she was severly abused by previous owners it would have been easy to blame her and say that it would happen again(it never did).
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well thats your fault not the dogs you stuck your arm in between them
 
Red Devil said:
Your own opinion.. but this is barbaric action to me.. when i was growing up my little sister started blowing air into our pet dogs face.. the dog would jump at the bubble of air and bite at it.. in just a fleeting second the dog jumped to close to my sisters face and the dogs tooth hit the side of her skin near her eye.. she needed to have stitches .. my parents did not blame the dog...
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ok I wasn't there but from the outside listening to that account this is what I heard you say. from a canine behavioral point of view. what you saw as biting at air was the dog snapping at your sister warning her she didn't like her blowing in her face. when the snapping went un heeded that dog bit her and it was on propose it was a more clear statement stop blowing in my face I don't like it and you aren't dominate enough to do things to me that I don't like. Dogs do not bite on accident. it be like balling up a fist and accidentally breaking some ones nose. Your selling dogs intelligence and agility way to short. my 130 lbs great dane Shire can run at me full tilt jump and mid air turn a 180 and just barely bump me with her hip. I've also had a 140 lbs cane corso take small bits of hot dogs from my lips mid air without so much as a whisker brushing me.
so yep that bite was on victims parents for two reasons
1] dog was not properly trained to be around children. I train my dogs to accept their ears pulled, their eyes poked, their faces blown in, tails pulled, them getting hugged, laid on, stepped on. And the only acceptable response from the dog is for it to either walk into its kennel or out the dog door.
2] parents didn't properly train kids to be around dogs. I teach any child around my dogs to read the dogs body language not to guess what they think the dog feels but what the dog is clearly telling you if you know how to watch. A dog with even the slightest dominance complex will snap/bite if you blow in its face. Its a very common trigger.

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First there were 8 kids in the family.. a little hard to teach everything .... especially when they had to work alot to make ends meet.. obviously they did a pretty good job.. all of us are good people and animal lovers.. i remember the dog was just biting the air.. as they would a bubble floating through.. she felt the wind and played with it.. just got to close to where the breeze was actually propelled.. but it was definitly in play.. wagging tail and having fun..
 
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