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>Lastly, and this is only the secondary element, is that your experience is simply that: Your experience.<

Well, since my experience is only 42 years of dog training and teaching others to train their dogs, I defer to your superiority.

And as far as your posts, the one to which I replied has nothing to do with unknown dogs being suited for children, which, depending on the dog and evaluation by a skilled trainer/behaviorist, may or may not be the case. You, my dear, warned in your post to never, ever ever ever, ad nauseum, adopt an adult dog.

You posted:
>This will piss off the Animal wackos, but NEVER, Never, never, never, never, adopt an adult dog.

Ever. You do not know what behaviors, triggers, emotional baggage the animal carries. Or if it will turn at something totally off the mark.

If you want a pet: get a baby animal. A puppy, kitten, chick, whatever. Raise it, train it, care for and nurture it. And do NOT have a pet BEFORE you have children.

Your doggy loves YOU and will see the new “pets” aka your children, and lessor animals in the “pack” and will attempt to dominate them, forcing them to submission. And human children have NO PACK instinct, they will do the human thing: RESIST.

You might as well TRAIN you dog to attack and kill your children as at least then you won’t be shocked when it happens. /s<

So, for the record, in your expert opinion:

An unknown, untrained adult dog is an equal risk for the average random family off the street, with young children, to adopt, when compared to adopting a puppy and raising it directly with the same family in this question.

You equate them? Equally? No bias?

You would reject my suggestion that there is a greater risk, a significant risk, a risk worthy of strong reconsideration, from the former to the later?

I guess you will have to forgive me, if I find that incomprehensible.

Would you go so far as to blame this attack on the child? She obviously did something far over and above the norm to “cause” this attack upon herself?

I saw a few folks go that route. Just asking for a marker on your range please.

For the record, I reject it in totality. If a dog attacks a child, it is to be put down. A nip is not an attack, just in case one may be tempted to believe I suggest such.

This record, from all available data, would be an attack.

So, instead of just telling me the generic “I am wrong”. Please, some specifics. A few answers to the questions above?

Thanks.