A Father Kills His Dog To Get His Son's Finger

[SumoNinja]

this isn't a dog thread so hope it doesn't get moved. I just wanna know if dog lovers and non dog lovers would do this. was the father wrong? justified?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/01/florida-father-kills-dog-son-finger

A father in Florida shot and killed his family's pet dog then sliced open its stomach to retrieve his son's finger that the animal had bitten off and swallowed.

The boy's father, Luis Brignoni, 41, said he heard screams from the back yard of the family's home in Bradenton, and looked out to see Fernando's 13-year-old brother hitting the animal over the head as it held on to the little finger of the boy's left hand with its teeth.

Officers from the Manatee County sheriff's office arrived to find Brignoni, a landscape gardener, cutting open the dead animal's stomach with a knife. A sheriff's deputy helped him find the finger and pack it carefully so it could be sent with the injured boy to hospital in St Petersburg by helicopter.

"To me it wasn't only losing my son's finger, it was also basically losing a family member. And it was just really tough," Brignoni told the Bay News 9 TV station.
"But my son comes before any animal, and at that moment it was just like: get it now or it's gone.
"He might be missing a finger but his other four are good. Everything he could do with five fingers he can do with four."

 

[chonhzilla]

I would retrieve my finger.

 

[Fat Homer]

"He might be missing a finger but his other four are good. Everything he could do with five fingers he can do with four."

Well, maybe except for swimming in a straight line...

But on a serious note, i'd retrieve my finger too in that situation....

 

[rwellbaum]

I would retrieve the finger

 

[hamster]

I love my dog but if it ripped my daughters finger of that would be the end of him regardless of whether he swallowed it or not.

 

[monsterkeeper87]

I would hate to ever be in that situation but I would get my daughters finger back without a doubt


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[PwNz I R COLE]

I wouldn't it did that for a reason and I a 17 year old know that there was no hope to reattaching that finger I gotta give it to the guy he's got some balls doing that


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[Fat Homer]

^ but you dont know for sure it cant be reattached...

Either way, besides myself if any animal took off one of my nieces fingers off, i'd take the finger and the animals head back with me...


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[Rivers2k]

In a second! Even if a finger isn't involved. I love my dog but if my dog ever bites my kids or any kid it is going down. People are more important than animals.

 

[Miguel]

Immediately and without any hesitation whatsoever.