Any photographs of the dog?
I don’t get it. A dog bites a human, or baby and we kill it quick. No second chances no rehab. A grown adult kills, beats, rapes a human or baby and we feed them for life in prison ? Do I have this right ? Why can’t we put down dangerous scum this quickly ?
When will people learn........................
I at least partially fault the family for this attack. What in the world are they doing allowing a proven vicious breed anywhere near a newborn? Yes, a proven vicious breed.
>>without warning<<
The warning was... IT WAS A PITBULL!!!
Thank God the little tyke is going to be okay, no thanks to the pitbull-owning parents/grandparents.
I’ll say it again....
Pit bull terriers are not domestic animals, and should be treated as such. People should have to obtain a special license to board or own them, and be required to keep them fenced and secured at all times. Just like with any other dangerous, exotic animal.
It sounds like the baby is going to be all right, and that is the important thing.
You missed a couple, Chet! It’s cool though, I rounded them up for you.
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/8360488.Savage_attack_on_pet_border_collie_on_Turbary_Common/
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3119699/Yobs-set-devil-dog-on-tramp.html
http://www.getwokingham.co.uk/news/s/2077416_toddler_bitten_during_dog_attack
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10670205
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/10/2978466.htm
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/100811-woman-and-pet-injured-in-dog-attack
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11160886
http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/Girl-8-savaged-in-Akita.6486568.jp
http://www.wlwt.com/r/24654057/detail.html
He says, the dog was sitting next to him on the back patio when all of a sudden without provocation, without warning, the dog jumped up and opened its mouth on the newborn.
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He was a Good Boy and never did that before???!...
RDO Woof
It is not clear this is an “attack”
The tooth, paw or head of a boisterous dog can inadvertently cause damage to an adult, let alone a newborn.
This story was only written and posted because it contains the word “pit bull”.
In the yellow journalist’s case the word attracts attention to the piece,
reinforced in the headline where the “pit bull mix” of the story
is transformed into the more sinister “pit bull”
In the poster’s case because it furthers his agenda and satisfies his and others moral narcissism.
Fortunately lessons can be drawn that can be applied to all dogs.
Rejecting hasty generalizations, some can be induced that are appropriate and helpful.
Note the only mention of the infant being “bit” is by the journalist...
‘Floyd jumped up and bit the baby on the head’
Gramps, who was there when it happened, doesn’t describe it that way...
“His fang tooth or something put a laceration on the head”
and postulates that perhaps the dog confused the infant with his small stuffy playtoys.
Regardless of the intent of the dog this shouldn’t have happened.
The child was only 4 days old and therefore newly arrived in the household.
The dog has to be taught that this new thing is not a toy or a small animal.
The dog HAS to be introduced to the newborn.
Use a leash on ANY dog when introducing it to a newborn.
The dog should already know a “gentle” command and the baby must be associated with it.
If you can’t do this or don’t feel comfortable with your dog’s training or behavior
then Gramps advice is the best, ‘get rid of the dog’.
“A fatal dog attack is not just a dog bite by a big or aggressive dog,” Lockwood went on. “It is usually a perfect storm of bad human-canine interactions—the wrong dog, the wrong background, the wrong history in the hands of the wrong person in the wrong environmental situation. I’ve been involved in many legal cases involving fatal dog attacks, and, certainly, it’s my impression that these are generally cases where everyone is to blame. You’ve got the unsupervised three-year-old child wandering in the neighborhood killed by a starved, abused dog owned by the dogfighting boyfriend of some woman who doesn’t know where her child is. It’s not old Shep sleeping by the fire who suddenly goes bonkers. Usually there are all kinds of other warning signs.”
Jayden Clairoux was attacked by Jada, a pit-bull terrier, and her two pit-bull–bullmastiff puppies, Agua and Akasha. The dogs were owned by a twenty-one-year-old man named Shridev Café, who worked in construction and did odd jobs. Five weeks before the Clairoux attack, Café’s three dogs got loose and attacked a sixteen-year-old boy and his four-year-old half brother while they were ice skating. The boys beat back the animals with a snow shovel and escaped into a neighbor’s house. Café was fined, and he moved the dogs to his seventeen-year-old girlfriend’s house. This was not the first time that he ran into trouble last year; a few months later, he was charged with domestic assault, and, in another incident, involving a street brawl, with aggravated assault. “Shridev has personal issues,” Cheryl Smith, a canine-behavior specialist who consulted on the case, says. “He’s certainly not a very mature person.” Agua and Akasha were now about seven months old. The court order in the wake of the first attack required that they be muzzled when they were outside the home and kept in an enclosed yard. But Café did not muzzle them, because, he said later, he couldn’t afford muzzles, and apparently no one from the city ever came by to force him to comply. A few times, he talked about taking his dogs to obedience classes, but never did. The subject of neutering them also came up—particularly Agua, the male—but neutering cost a hundred dollars, which he evidently thought was too much money, and when the city temporarily confiscated his animals after the first attack it did not neuter them, either, because Ottawa does not have a policy of preëmptively neutering dogs that bite people.
On the day of the second attack, according to some accounts, a visitor came by the house of Café’s girlfriend, and the dogs got wound up. They were put outside, where the snowbanks were high enough so that the back-yard fence could be readily jumped. Jayden Clairoux stopped and stared at the dogs, saying, “Puppies, puppies.” His mother called out to his father. His father came running, which is the kind of thing that will rile up an aggressive dog. The dogs jumped the fence, and Agua took Jayden’s head in his mouth and started to shake. It was a textbook dog-biting case: unneutered, ill-trained, charged-up dogs, with a history of aggression and an irresponsible owner, somehow get loose, and set upon a small child. The dogs had already passed through the animal bureaucracy of Ottawa, and the city could easily have prevented the second attack with the right kind of generalization—a generalization based not on breed but on the known and meaningful connection between dangerous dogs and negligent owners. But that would have required someone to track down Shridev Café, and check to see whether he had bought muzzles, and someone to send the dogs to be neutered after the first attack, and an animal-control law that insured that those whose dogs attack small children forfeit their right to have a dog. It would have required, that is, a more exacting set of generalizations to be more exactingly applied. It’s always easier just to ban the breed.