Oh dear.. :(

Caroline_a

Firstly, it's a horrible tragedy that a child has died. However, there are things about this that don't sound right to me. It is said that the mother and the child were asleep in bed when the dog attacked. Now... having owned a lot of dogs and encountered a lot more, I cannot conceive a scenario, short of a rabid dog, that would attack like that. Particularly a bulldog, who are short legged animals and would struggle to jump on a bed in order to attack. Dogs are mostly pretty logical animals and do things for a reason - hungry, fearful, threatened, thirsty.... but 2 humans asleep would not trigger this type of response.

Am I the only one thinking this?

Wellyboots6

Unless the child shouted out in its sleep?

I was woken by 7 stone of GSD jumping on my stomach in the night because (I assume) I had shouted out during a nightmare!

Caroline_a

Oh everybody knows that Sheps are crackers.... as are their owners

Wellyboots6

Obviously, no sane person would own one!!

Caroline_a

Absolutely not. And even if they were sane before they certainly wouldnt be after a week or two with one...

meritaten

to say you wouldn't leave a child unsupervised - well, I have done it loads of times! I left them to go put the kettle on, to make supper etc etc. Havent most dog owning families? What are you supposed to do? every time you leave the room? take either dog/child with you? and quite frankly if anyone says 'Yes, we do this as dogs are so dangerous' - I don't think I believe them! if you don't know your family pet well enough to not trust them for five minutes - then you have the wrong dog or are the wrong owners. There HAS to be trust once you know your dog or brought it up.............its a very rare occasion that trust is misplaced! yet these days any dog owner is now suspicious of their pet and people almost expect dogs and kids to be 'segregated'!

scheming_gypsy

Caroline_a wrote: »

Firstly, it's a horrible tragedy that a child has died. However, there are things about this that don't sound right to me. It is said that the mother and the child were asleep in bed when the dog attacked. Now... having owned a lot of dogs and encountered a lot more, I cannot conceive a scenario, short of a rabid dog, that would attack like that. Particularly a bulldog, who are short legged animals and would struggle to jump on a bed in order to attack. Dogs are mostly pretty logical animals and do things for a reason - hungry, fearful, threatened, thirsty.... but 2 humans asleep would not trigger this type of response.

Am I the only one thinking this?

I thought it sounded strange when I read it.
Sounds like they could have been left playing together in the bedroom.

meritaten

according to beeb news the child was off school sick and she was in living room playing, and the mum was in another room when dog attacked.

catkins

meritaten wrote: »

according to beeb news the child was off school sick and she was in living room playing, and the mum was in another room when dog attacked.

I read that the girl was off sick and was in bed when the attack happened. To be honest there have been so many changes in the story in the papers that it is hard to know what to believe. The papers make it up as they go along

gettingready

Now the story in the link I posted earlier ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2487849/Leicester-girl-dies-bitten-dog-Mountsorrel.html ) has changd again...it is different to what was there in the morning

We will never know what happened but lots of things do not ad up.