Did he? Well, I didn't know that. Taking a bone off a pit bull is a big mistake. Even my sister's little lap dog would be outraged, though there's little it could do about it.
Dogs love bones so much who could be so cruel as to take one away?
I need to know more background, children are stupid and if the child went and deliberately agitated a normally peaceful sweet dog I would support the dog not being killed over it. Im not saying that's what happened here, but as a general rule when a dog attacks a child I kind of want to know what set off the attack before i think the dog should go down.
It's a stupid idea. Tragic for the boy. Tragic for the dog. Unfortunately, as anyone who's ever bothered to work with shepherding animals would tell you, instead of people who keep house pets, sooooo kquooot fluffy fuzzy wuzzy, is that once a dog has attacked a particular species it is more likely that it's going to do so again. Now, since the dog appeared to be protecting a food source instead of attempting to eat the boy with a predation response, that repeat behavior isn't guaranteed, but it's still more likely. And given how dangerous a dog with a hair trigger is when it's prone and proven to be willing to attack human children there is only one responsible course of action. Destroy the dog. You aren't supposed to feel good about it. If you don't feel bad about it, that's kinda scary.
Ok read the full story, picking up a bone isnt a bad enough sin that it justifies cutting the dog a break. Read somewhere else this dog has killed another dog in the past. There is a time and a place to stand up for a dog, this isnt that time.
I met a woman walking a pit bull the other day. A very lively animal it was too. "She'll probably bite you," said the owner (or did my ears deceive me, and was it the dog that spoke?). "But don't worry, she's only playing".
Which was, you know, fine. I just laughed and shoved my hand into the dog's mouth all the harder. The dog seemed very pleased.
Any medium or large sized dog can be dangerous if not properly disciplined or handled. Pit Bulls are very very territorial. They will happily greet you, but unless there owner is around I wouldn't get to close to the gate or front door. Obviously this dog had a bad owner. Dobermans and Rotwielers are just big babies unless there owners train them to be aggressive. Same with Pit Bulls. Other Breeds you wouldn't be inclined to associate with aggression are more prone to it than breeds people to associate with aggression.
You don't let kids near pit bulls. If you have a pit bull, you damn well better keep it away from kids. I say, kill the dog as a lesson to other pit bull owners to keep their dogs under control. Yeah it's sad to put down an innocent puppy-wuppy but those things are dangerous.
A 4-year old is not likely to know much about dog breeds anyway. And dogs who are prone to attack are even more prone to attack a small child than a larger child (and very rarely a grown-up).
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