The attack on my granddaughter? NO, there was not even a police report or a story in the local paper. It was one daughters pet, and the other daughters child approached the dog. Animal control did not take the dog, but recommended it be euthanized. The testimony from witnesses, said the dog was not angry, and didn’t shake the baby at all. He just bit and pulled back, chin and jaw-line, to one eyebrow, a nice semi-circle. Needless to say, since the one daughter who was offered a choice, kept the dog for two weeks to find another home for him. Hand to God, this is in WA state. It makes me wonder how often this happens. At the hospital, they said it was no uncommon within families that the children get bitten, and it is not treated as a “trigger event”.
Similar thing happened to a friend’s mother.
She was sitting by the Christmas tree, opening a gift, when their “pure bred” pit, which they’d had for 5 years, suddenly lunged at her and locked it’s jaws on her face.
Her husband had to nearly beat the dog to death to get it off, and her mother ended up needing over 100 stitches, and had a puncture in her skull, near her temple.
Her brother came over and “removed” the animal while the family was at the hospital.
Oh my goodness. I don’t think the dog can be trusted again....I would have had it put down. In fact, my cousin (who was a veterinary technician for many years), saw her son bring a pet pit bull he adopted home for a visit. The dog lunged at a grandaughter (just a toddler) during that visit and someone grabbed the dog just in time. She told her son, if you don’t get that dog euthanized, you will likely have a tragedy on your hands some point in the future, possibly with another child. He did get the dog put down.
I will shoot my own dog myself, in cold blood, if it seriously attacks one of my grandchildren. I have even less concern for other folks’ dogs.
Why no police report? That sure hasn’t been my experience