Hello; You are correct, the large portion of those responding have agreeded with the fathers action. This is encouraging as the minority opinion just does not make sense to me.
That the boy should not have a chance to have his finger fixed being a proper life "lesson learned" does not make sense to me.
That some would want to know if the boy did something to provoke the animal does not make sense to me.
That some sort of surgery should be arranged to get the finger in order to keep the dog alive does not makle sense to me. Such surgery would likely take hours, perhaps days, to schedule and by then it would very likely be too late to give the reattachment a chance.
That the father should recieve some additional punishment make some sense but leaves me questoning the intent. Perhaps to find some person to blame other than the animal in question? Perhaps to further punish the father because his set up allowed the child to be in danger? My guess is that the father is likely very upset with himself as it is and will have plenty of negative consiquences to deal with as things stand. The expense of the many medical proceedures may be great in addition to the likely very great emotional reaction to having this happen to his son.
At least there has not been a lot of conversation about how wonderful this particular type of dog is. I gather from the discussion that keeping one is something like keeping a lion and such.
You are also correct that dog threads get derailed. I speculate that the strong emotions some have about their pets may play a part.
