Baby's first birthday party turns to tragedy when he is killed by family's mastiff dog

Daily Mail ^ | 4-29-2012 | Laura Pullman

[Colonel Kangaroo]

A baby boy has died after he was attacked by his family’s mastiff dog during his first birthday party.

A day after turning one, Jeremiah Eshew-Shahan was at his grandmother’s house in Las Vegas when he crawled over to the dog – a mastiff-rhodesian mix weighing about 120 pounds – and started to pet him. The dog then attacked the baby, sinking his teeth into Jeremiah’s head and shaking him...

[Gator113]

If I come back as a dog, I want to be one of yours. ;>)

[Mr Rogers]

“Millions more have been bitten and injured. What’s your point?”

Nope. First, 4.5 million supposedly bitten, but not bad enough to need medical treatment. If medical treatment wasn’t needed, then the dog wasn’t trying to harm anyone.

And how many of the 800,000 are for minor stuff? Ever been in an ER? People bring in kids for small scratches.

Now, how many dogs are there in America?

75 million.

Would I believe that 1 out of 75 dogs is not to be trusted around kids? Yep. And I’d believe that ratio (or worse) for adult male HUMANS...

But the overwhelming majority of dogs do NOT harm kids in any way. And the vast majority I’ve known over 50 years ADORE kids.

“The trick is telling ahead of time when a dog is going to be agressive and when not.”

Easy if you know dogs. Pretty hard if you wet yourself in fear every time you see something with four legs...

[Salamander]

This is Djinni and The Boy the neighbor babysits.

Djinni *adores* that little boy, possibly because he always lets her lick the breakfast remnants off his face but I never let him in to play with her.

She can run 35 mph *easy* and her exuberance at seeing him made me concerned she'd accidentally flatten him on one of her over-joyed fly-bys.

[just as she's flattened me, several times]

I doubt she weighs even 50 pounds but her speed alone makes her a dangerous, furry missile of love.

Their affair continues apace *though the fence*....:)

[sorry it's not as "mawkish" as your photo...I tried]...;D

[Salamander]

I’d sleep in a room full of 50 strange dogs.

I won’t sleep in a room with *1* strange human.

Consider it “empiric evidence”, if you will.

[Salamander]

Okay...deal.

Just don’t pee in the house.

LOL

[Salamander]

I wonder what FOG will do if I introduce the subject of owning large constrictor snakes into the mix?

;]

[roadcat]

Seriesly, dudes. When you have a big party, lock the dog in a back bedroom.

A while back, friends of ours invited us over for dinner. They locked their pair of pit bulls in the back yard behind the patio door. So we sat down to dinner right next to the patio door, and BOOM... One of the pit bulls slammed into the patio door glass snarling and scared the crap out of me. Rick says relax, he does that a lot but can't come thru the glass. A couple weeks later we visited again, and the patio door was boarded up. Rick laughed, yeah the dog crashed through the window!

[Salamander]

“Some men are child molesters.”

Funny you should mention that.

That’s how I came to have Dobermanns, in the first place.

Dear ol’ mom and dad did nothing to protect me from the weird uncle when I was 10 so I managed to get a Dobe when I was almost 14.

That dog saved my life.

“Suddenly”, the uncle “lost interest” in his weak, small prey....who was now followed around 24/7 by a dark, guardian angel.

Problem solved.

I will have at *least* one until the day I die.

I -owe- them.

“When all other friends desert, he alone, remains”

[Gator113]

No problem, I am already known for peeing outside.

You will need to get a sidecar and I want to be a Dobermann. ;>)

BTW.... We have tried that med you suggested for about 6 weeks and there hasn’t been any improvement with his chronic ear infection. We changed his diet from raw to a high quality kibble.... he doesn’t like it, but he eats it. I tossed his big pillow and I am at a loss as to what to do.

The vet said it could be environmental, but it’s not like we can simply move. LOL

I truly love the GSD breed, but should I ever get another dog, I am going back to Dobermanns. I never once had any of this nonsense with raising Dobermanns for 30 years... and my last guy lived for over 13 years.

[Salamander]

Irony time:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2878595/posts

[Gator113]

God bless you girl.....

[Hepsabeth]

I can understand putting a dog in a stroller, but only if the dog is lame and really can’t walk any kind of distance. I can’t tell with the first one, but the dog in the second picture you posted has a lot of white in the face and may be very old.

[from occupied ga]

If medical treatment wasn’t needed, then the dog wasn’t trying to harm anyone

Medical treatment wasn't sought, but still bitten. My a-hole cousin let her dog run loose, and it bit more than one jogger (This in a leash law jurisdiction) Her response? They shouldn't have been jogging when my dog was out. I think she had to pay ER bill for one, and the other didn't make a fuss over it. She was lucky.

My point is that dogs are NOT friendly furry humans, but dogs. Maybe you trust yours with justification, and I hope you're right in your assessment, but there are number that are NOT to be trusted, and people should keep that in mind when they have dogs around children. PARTICULARY large dogs or breeds like pit bulls, chows, etc that have a well deserved reputation for NOT being trustworthy.

wet yourself

I'll have to take your word for that.

[Salamander]

Has the vet cultured ear scrapings for yeast or bacteria?

Yeast is almost always the problem.

Has his thyroid been checked?
[do that -first- if you have not already!]

“Environmental” is too catch all.

Did he mention systemic allergies?
You could try 25 mg of Benadryl and see if that stops the itching.

Do his ears stink and if so, what do they smell like?
[our vet can tell just by smell alone]

http://www.dog-obedience-training-review.com/dog-ear-infection.html

[dragnet2]

say insulting things to people you disagree with that you would never say to their faces?

It's the truth! And I would have no problem at all telling it to your face.

LOL!

[thesearethetimes...]

Thanks for the link :)

BookMarking

[Salamander]

He already did...with that first Dobe.

I was up watching late night TV and “The Doberman Gang” was on and I literally begged God for a dog like that to protect me.

Not even a week later, a stray Dobe wandered into my yard and parked himself in front of the door.

Nobody ever claimed him and that was my first one.

I named him Caesar.
He was really a very old beat up cream puff but “looked scary enough”.

About a year later my great-uncle gave me another one he’d gotten from a guy who was divorcing.

That sharp, young dog was *not* a cream puff.

After so many years of being terrified to even leave my own yard, the dogs and I went everywhere together.

I’d go get wonderfully “lost” in the woods with them and never felt a second’s fear again.

They literally saved my sanity.

Lots of abuse survivors turn to drugs, booze or suicide to ‘cope’.

I never did because I had the best “therapists” in the world.

God blessed me richly, I truly believe.

:)

[Salamander]

Yeah he is, isn’t he?

That’s just sad, then.

Poor old dog.

[from occupied ga]

And I would have no problem at all telling it to your face.

so you say from the safety of your keyboard.

[Salamander]

LOL!

Much to hubby’s horror, there’s precious little I *won’t* “tell to your face” when necessary.

It’s a miracle I haven’t been killed, yet.