I was bitten several years ago by a raccoon during an altercation with her babies and some kittens over who the food belonged to. I shot her in the head, and had to take the vaccine. I wish I hadn’t shot her, since I h ad to take the vaccine anyway. O went to the Health Department, picked it up and took it to my physician. I apologized profusely to the nurse, just in case. One shot in the butt, and the rest in the arm. She was an artist, and the injections were never painful.
I understand they lace bait with vaccine and air drop it for wild coons to eat somewhere in New England.
I have to admit that my big tabby had much the same look on his face after he trailed a turd out of the litter box and then scraped it off onto the carpet. Cats typically are pleased with themselves.
THIS cat, however, is entitled to look pleased with herself for the rest of her life, and I’ll bet her family feels the same way.
Small children move quickly and look like prey. Every year or so I see a kid getting killed in the news. In fact Victoria Stillwell was on tv not too long ago talking about a dog who shook a toddler to death. Some dogs chase squirrels, some dogs do not. Some dogs chase children, some do not. Both cases require training to stop that behavior. According to the article the owners knew that the dog had a problem with bikes and children, and should have consulted a professional trainer or behaviorist in order to address the problem. Clearly they did not.
And yes, I have seen a dog catch a cat. The neighbor’s pit bull caught a cat and grabbed it up and shook it, just like that dog was shaking the kids leg as he backed up. The cat died quickly.
One incident does not a vicious dog make. I would hope that whoever has the dog in custody will evaluate its behavior and its prospects for rehabilitation before putting it down.
No. If my dog is running loose for any reason, that is my fault. Period. End of story. It doesn’t matter how he got away, or why, or what precautions I did or did not take. It *is *completely possible to guarantee that the dog will never escape.
These people failed to teach their dog boundaries(doors, edges of yard), they failed to address its known behavior problem, and they failed to keep it contained. They are the picture of irresponsibility and the dog is not responsible for that. It was just out doing what dogs do when untrained and unsupervised. I think the kid’s mother should sue them.
In the late 60s, my sister and I were at home listening to the radio. Our fluffy black-and-white cat was present. We heard the tag line for an airline commercial: “Continental Airlines–the proud bird with the golden tail.” My sister said, “Arch–the proud cat with the black tail.”
Yes, it does. One incident is one too many. There is no way that allowing that dog to live is a service to the dog, the owners OR the community. If a dog has shown it’s vicious colours quite like the poor hound in the video, then a quick needle is the best thing.
I guess we will have to agree to disagree. One incident - not for this dog but for any given dog - could be explained by a variety of circumstances that may never happen again for the rest of the dog’s life. It could be explained by illness or injury, by abuse or neglect on the part of the owners. In the hands of a responsible owner and with appropriate management, the dog might be perfectly docile and safe. Everyone, or everydog, as it were, deserves a second chance.
For example. When I was 10, I knelt down on the floor to hug my stepdad’s Akita. I put my knee right down on the dogs front paw, and she yelped and snapped me in the ear. Would you kill that dog as well?
This post is all over the place - you seem to say one thing, then another, and then stop somewhere in the middle.
As for the dog - yeah, anything that “proactively” stalks like that needs to be put down, I don’t care if it’s trainable or not. It would be too dangerous.
As to the owners - I wouldn’t be willing to condemn them just yet - we don’t know what steps they were taking, how the dog was normally restrained and what sort of training regime it was under. In any case - at 8 months old, that’s pretty young still.
Also - just to be a pedant about it “having a problem with kids and bikes” can mean a LOT of things - all the way from the sort of attack you see here, to running in terror with his tail between his legs. So I wouldn’t be too willing to call the owners irresponsible just yet
Getting snapped at for inadvertently kneeling on a paw IS NOT the same as what the dog in the video was doing. That dog stalked a quiet, almost stationary kid. He grabbed the kid and was trying to shake him to death or to injure him badly enough to keep him from getting away so he could kill.
A snap from a dog in pain is a warning signal. Dogs that snap at each other (and at humans who invade their space and hurt them) rarely make contact, and if they do it’s generally by accident & a superficial thing. For dogs, the flash of teeth, the curled lip, the speed - all are signals that say Back The Hell Off You Are Pushing Your Boundaries! Generally there were other, subtler signals preceding it that we clueless humans don’t see or misinterpret.
Call it semantics if you want, but a snap and a serious bite as in the video are two very different things. A snap at a human is cause for concern, training (for dog and human), heightened vigilance. A deep lacerating bite from an unprovoked attack is cause for euthanasia.
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So you’re prepared to risk the possibility it escapes again except next time maybe mum and the wondercat aren’t nearby, and it gets the child’s throat and the child dies or is seriously hurt. You’re prepared to take that chance for the sake of some dog? Your child or someone else’s?
Is too big of a risk, once the dog has actually ‘tasted’ attacking human children it known that it can, the taboo against attacking humans is now broken in this dog. And the mom was bitten as well. The dog no longer fits into the definition of domesticated animal, nor wild animal. Sadly there is no place for this animal to exist, there is no life we can offer it.
Perhaps some ranch for troubled dogs, but that would just be a very big cage.
The reason for putting down the dog is not to punish it, but to spare it from how it would have to exist from this point on.
I shudder to think of how horrific the end result would have been if that mother (who would have fought far harder than any cat) and Tara hadn’t acted so quickly to end the attack. Be more accurate with your claim and then do your best to defend it…
One mauling does not a vicious dog make.. Okay, good luck with that.
I would think that it was to be certain that he never attacks a human.
I do wonder if we will discover that the kid used to poke the dog in the eye with sticks through the fence.
