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[deleted] t1_ja33j5c wrote

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Sylentskye t1_ja4wtyc wrote

I’m sure I’m going to get downvoted, but I anecdotally see a lot of dog attacks come down to a few things, breed aside:

A. Unfamiliar dogs/people
B. Entitled or careless owners
C. Lack of respect for/infantilizing dogs
D. Lack of training/management/boundaries
E. Indiscriminate dog breeding/unknown lineage
F. Suppression or lack of follow through on non-human attacks (or dog is so small it doesn’t cause the same level of damage but is still a menace)

This situation should have never happened, regardless of breed because one should not leave kids alone/unsupervised with unfamiliar dogs! Heck, even if one knows the dog, one should think very carefully about leaving children unattended. Dogs are dogs no matter how cute and fuzzy they are. The best way to make sure a situation doesn’t happen is to avoid setting up an environment where it can happen.

And as much as it is sad, I do think there are some dogs that just aren’t “right” and they do need to be put down. Fair to the dog? No. But odds are that dog shouldn’t have been made in the first place. But I think if the things I listed were addressed, we’d have much fewer attacks in general.

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IamSauerKraut t1_ja67ppo wrote

>odds are that dog shouldn’t have been made in the first place.

Read an article in billypenn that the top FBI agent in Philly shot a pittie the other day. She was sitting in a park with her little pooch on her lap when the pittie snatched her pooch. Right off her lap! She shot the pittie dead. No word on the condition of her own dog.

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Sylentskye t1_ja6cc1j wrote

I don’t doubt that pittie would snatch food off the owner(s) plates too if it had the chance. Not because it’s a pit necessarily (I’ve met some amazing ones) but because the owners refuse to be responsible. I don’t disagree with what the agent did; I wish more people looked at leashes as protecting their dog and not iMpEdiNg tHeiR frEeDoM.

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