Oh dear.. :(

gettingready

OMO - the paper does not need to say that. I have a dog, a large dog. A very human/child friendly dog. dog that I have since she was a 4 month old baby.

And I would NEVER EVER leave any child alone with my dog in a separate room.

Someone bringing an adult dog of unknown past (if this was a rescue even worse for rehoming like that) to a flat with a small child and not being between dog and a child/putting a barier ALL the time - that IS unsupervised.

Have you seen photos of the child with the dog? Cuddling? Leaning on a dog that is asleep, eating next to a dog etc? Too close, too soon - where were the parents? Taking photos? Waiting for/asking for tragedy to happen?

Get real !!!!!!.

gettingready

And another thing - can not see anywhere mentioned about the mother being bitten/hurt any way by the said dog. I see it is written she stabbed the dog but nothing about the dog hurting her in any way while she was trying to defend her child.

I guess nobody will never know what EXACTLY happened there. Just the end result - a terrible tragedy for both the child and the dog.

Own_My_Own

gettingready wrote: »

And another thing - can not see anywhere mentioned about the mother being bitten/hurt any way by the said dog. I see it is written she stabbed the dog but nothing about the dog hurting her in any way while she was trying to defend her child.

Your point being ?

gettingready

Stating the facts - and your problem with those is?

gettingready

Another article, claims the dog was adopted from the pound (shelter? do pounds rehome directly to public? i did not think they did?) and mother knew about dog having been abused in the past:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mountsorrel-dog-attack-lexi-hudson-2680156

No words....

catkins

People that really shouldn't have dogs get them. For a start a large dog like living in a flat doesn't sound ideal - did it get long enough walks etc.

Secondly a young child should not be alone with a dog and should not be allowed to lay over it etc. Even if you have had a dog from a young puppy that is still pretty stupid.

Tryingagainandagain

It is a terrible thing to have happened. The parents must be suffering dreadfully.

I don't think it's wise to have such a large dog around a small child.

It's not that the large breeds or large dogs are inherently more aggressive - simply that the damage must be the greater.

In particular any dog named "bull-something" is bred for heavy strong jaws as their origins are in grasping bulls.

catkins

Tryingagainandagain wrote: »

It is a terrible thing to have happened. The parents must be suffering dreadfully.

I don't think it's wise to have such a large dog around a small child.

It's not that the large breeds or large dogs are inherently more aggressive - simply that the damage must be the greater.

In particular any dog named "bull-something" is bred for heavy strong jaws as their origins are in grasping bulls.

I don't think it is wrong to have a large dog and a child as long as they are both properly supervised. They should not be alone together, the child should not be rough with the dog and certainly should not be allowed to do things like lay over a dog which this child clearly did as shown in the pictures.

I agree a large dog can do more damage but a small child could do enough damage and could sometimes kill. A jack russell killed a baby not that long ago.

DKLS

Very tragic scenario, I just hope it doesnt lead to knee jerk laws, as it did with the DDA which hasnt been a success.

chris_n_tj

My heart and prayers go out to the child, as for the family well sorry but. Well I have nothing to say, we dont know the why's and wherefores yet do we.

Any dog, big or small can do damage to a child, its our job as adults to make sure it doesnt.

We have small dogs (Bichons as many know) I have a 2 year old Granddaughter that has grown up with my Ollie from him being 9 weeks old. And her own dog. Do I? Would I leave them alone unsupervised? No I wouldnt, and we dont. My GD rags Ollie about and he lets her. She is more gentle with Dex, she seems to know he doesnt like too much ragging lol.

I dont know how but she always knew to leave Teej alone, maybe second sense who knows. (added) My Teej wasnt nasty in any way just to make my post clear. x

But believe me I am right there watching. This is also the reason we went down the pup line and not a rescue. I love our dogs, but I love my Graddaughter more. x

PS as for other threads, some of us dont like posting in some places so maybe havnt seem them ( I havnt) This is after all the pet board where I would expect to see a thread about this. x