This picture in the Sky News article, "One-Year-Old Dies In 'Appalling' Dog Attack ", clearly shows the dog was not a Boxer. Your link also indicates that the Boxer is as gentle as a lamb with children.
Posted on 04/17/2010 2:19:30 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Her 32-year-old uncle was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after the incident at around midday on Saturday.
Police officers were called to an address in Cotton Walk after reports that the baby was unconscious and had suffered serious head injuries. The girl, who was with her three-year-old sister, mother and grandmother, was taken by ambulance to East Surrey Hospital in Redhill, but she was pronounced dead on arrival.
The dog suspected of killing the girl was being held by police. The animal is believed to be a mastiff-type breed.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
As the owner of a Boxer I don’t agree with classifying it as a mastiff-type. Too small and most certainly not of a watch dog mindset....well at least mine isn’t
Just because pit bull attack stories are the only ones you post, doesn’t mean that they are ones that happen...Geez, get over yourself.
the ONLY ones that happen...
Thank you it took until your post #18 before any of the lovers expressed sympathy for the child and her family...Typical for pitt threads defenders when the story is about pitts...May the family find peace and God Bless that child...Her death was a horrifying one.
Boxers can get big, but they don’t typically have the personality or temperment to hurt children. They are more known for being “babysitters.” With that said, dogs and children should always be well supervised. ;)
This picture in the Sky News article, "One-Year-Old Dies In 'Appalling' Dog Attack ", clearly shows the dog was not a Boxer. Your link also indicates that the Boxer is as gentle as a lamb with children.
I never said the dog that attacked was a boxer, just that boxers are indeed mastiff-types.
I have a fondness for the breed, myself.
Didn't it disturb you that on a dog mauling article, the first picture on post number one was a Boxer? The picture of the actual dog that killed the girl looks like a Pit-bull Terrier, illegal in the UK. Judging by its relative smallness against the chain link fence fabric, it is much smaller than a mastiff.
It didn’t really bother me; I assumed it was posted to illustrate the foolishness of grouping dogs by ‘type’.
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