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7-Month-Old Ohio girl Mauled by Fighting Dogs
Toledo Blade ^ | Tuesday, 7/14/2015

Posted on 07/15/2015 8:10:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Police say a 7-month-old baby was critically injured when she got caught in the middle of a dog fight in northeast Ohio.

The baby girl was being treated at a Cleveland hospital after the incident Monday night in Chardon. She was in serious condition tonight.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: dogs
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To: Salamander

Same thing at dog parks. Folks want to bring all the dogs together and bad things can happen. According to this report/story it happened real quick. Probably something as simple as visiting dog grabbing resident dog’s toy with the little one right there. Animal’s can instinctively get tense and defensive when other animals enter their space or territory. I know you’re aware most dogs are super great with kids but if another dog enters the scene unpredictable things can happen.


21 posted on 07/16/2015 1:34:57 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
Out of all the years at the dog parks (no leash areas) I've only seen one fight. And not much of a fight - more of a squabble. I can see problems bringing one dog into another dog's territory - no matter how friendly they have been before. Like you said - the new dog picks up a favorite toy, etc. So sad for this little girl.

My mom got bit in the face by a “friendly” German Shepherd when she was a kid. The dog's owner figured she might have pet it where a bullet was still lodged in him. (The dog was put down).

The local doctor stitched her up the best he could on the back table of the country store where it happened. She spent a few weeks with a big bandage on her face and salve. Amazingly her scars healed pretty well. Although she never liked dogs after that! I was surprised she took so well to our big black dog when she visited a few years ago.

22 posted on 07/16/2015 1:49:39 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: dragnet2

I would not even let *both* my Dobes love up a kid at the same time.

They adore children but what if one feels the other is getting more love and suddenly acts out?

Just like that, in an instant of unpredictable, unusual behavior, a little kid gets hurt.

Not a chance.

I would never take any of my dogs to “dog parks”, either.

Two of them would be easy victims for aggressive dogs and two of them are dog aggressive.

Not for a single, solitary second do I *ever* forget what ~any~ dog is capable of.

An injured child is not worth anything *I* might think is ‘fun’.

Case in point, the sweetest, most gentle, passive, submissive dog I’ve ever had was the one who saved me from my ex, the night he tried to kill me.

Shocked me to the core, she did.
I never would have imagined that she had it in her to ‘get mad’, ever.
[but thank God she did or I’d be dead]

No one, anywhere, can ever predict _100% of the time_ what any dog might do and where kids are concerned, nothing less than 101% will do, for me.


23 posted on 07/16/2015 1:52:32 AM PDT by Salamander (We're ALL Dixie, now.)
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To: dragnet2
*This* skinny little thing is the dog who "went Cujo" and jumped on my ex's back as he was strangling me.

Would you ever imagine that being even remotely possible?

Especially when she lived in terror of him?

24 posted on 07/16/2015 1:56:55 AM PDT by Salamander (We're ALL Dixie, now.)
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To: 21twelve

A little boy went bananas over Seven the other day but I had to remove her from the situation as he repeatedly kept hugging her face.

She put up with it very well but his last “hug” was particularly aggressive and I could see she was becoming conflicted.

As I left with Seven, I tried to nicely tell his mom that she really should not let him ‘get in the face’ of a dog, especially a strange one.

Cute kid.
He wanted to buy Seven.

:)


25 posted on 07/16/2015 2:01:22 AM PDT by Salamander (We're ALL Dixie, now.)
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26 posted on 07/16/2015 4:04:09 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Salamander
I would never take any of my dogs to “dog parks”, either.

Me either. Four because they can't defend themselves and one because he can.

27 posted on 07/16/2015 4:34:04 AM PDT by Eaker (You are really amazing Eaker. - Swordmaker 02/14/15)
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To: Eaker

When strange dogs are introduced to one another, it should always be on neutral ground.


28 posted on 07/16/2015 4:39:03 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

I have four older dogs and one young dog. I don’t introduce them to other dogs at all.


29 posted on 07/16/2015 4:46:38 AM PDT by Eaker (You are really amazing Eaker. - Swordmaker 02/14/15)
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To: Salamander

WOW! What a story! What a good pup, thank God for her!


30 posted on 07/16/2015 5:26:58 AM PDT by Ditter ( God Bless Texas!)
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To: Eaker

No dog parks for us either, my vet said their are too many diseases there. My dogs are OK with a dog that comes in the front door and is properly introduced but they better not try to come in through their own personal back yard.


31 posted on 07/16/2015 5:32:45 AM PDT by Ditter ( God Bless Texas!)
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To: Steely Tom
Your questions are reasonable, but alas are outside the scope of information that is currently available to me, situated as I am approximately 320 miles from Chardon Ohio and it’s environs.

My questions were more of a rhetorical nature... Thanks anyway!

Regards,

32 posted on 07/16/2015 8:14:19 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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