In this article, the dog's owners don't sound at all like they were responsible dog owners.
Neighbors said that Scott's family had moved in only about four months ago, but that their dogs had already become a nuisance. One neighbor, Rudy Lopez, said he saw a woman beating one of the dogs a few weeks ago with a shovel after it was involved in a fight with another dog.
Beating a dog with a shovel? No, nothing wrong there, with the dog owner or the dog. Sheesh.
Violence, beating the dog with a shovel, the woman created a time bomb. Terrible that her son died, and I’m not going to say another word.