Oh dear.. :(

gettingready

"XYZ resce placed the dog....."

Last time I heard, rescues do not approach individuals to adopt, one has to approach a rescue but the way this is written puts all blame on the rescue.

Dog was clearly marked as not to be around children, woman knew she had a child - did she tell the rescue that?

Rescue did nto do a home check?

Again, somethign seriously doe snot add up in this whole story...

aileth

When we adopted a cat from Cat's Protection, we went through such a rigorous process, we had a lady come and sit, have a cup of coffee and went through a checklist after inspecting the home, questions about children, dogs, other cats etcetera.

When I've looked at all the rescues around us, they seem just as rigorous re home checks, young children etcetera, and surely if the rescue had done a home check, a child's room would be a dead giveaway if mother had denied there was a child? Or did she actually notify them of the child and they were simply completely and utterly callous about it?

Plus, I thought it would be very, very difficult to convince rescue to rehome to you when you lived in a flat? I always thought a secure garden was one of the tickboxes (I could be wrong; we have only ever rescued cats where the prequisite was away from a busy road).

UKTigerlily

I'm not sure why people think this but many flats do have gardens, even private ones & can be as big as any bungalow or as small as a matchbox. I have a rescue dog & live in a flat & had no trouble at all, I also live close to a country park, a park right next door, miles of fields & have a garden although communal but nobody minds that.

This dog came from the pound who have only recently been taking the poundies in (also a boarding kennels) & apparently was listed as not for kids, some say that automatically with any stray just in case so maybe they felt it'd be ok?

Apparenly the child was sick, I have heard of dogs attacking other dogs when sick, could they do that to a child just for being sick? Maybe the dog was ill? I personally wouldn't take any rescue with no history if I had kids but for some reason they felt it'd be ok & it's a tragedy the poor girl died.

Merry_Wanderer

We have got all our previous rescues from Dogs Trust. We don't have children, but the fact that we had a friend who visits about once a fortnight (if that) with her 2 young girls was taken into consideration and most of the dogs were off bounds to us just because we would have children in the house at points .. even if supervised.

The ones that were advertised as good with children, which were the ones we took, quite rightly we were told "We think they would be ok, but obviously we don't know their past, and besides no child should be left unsupervised with the dog" .. all common sense.

My current dog is very gentle and accomodating, and has half her teeth missing, however I would never leave her with a child unsupervised - if anything did happen it would be MY fault then.

ostrichnomore_2

Another awful story. Poor little girl. Poor mum, too.

also poor dog, really. Should never have been rehoused to a flat with children. Be interesting to see if the kennels had poor procedures, or if mum lied to them. I wouldn't want to have to live in that poor woman's head from now on, whatever the case.

meritaten

But that is only if the story of the dog having been 'flagged' as not suitable for families with children is TRUE!
I feel I cant really comment any more, as we are not really getting the 'facts' here. just a journos 'supposition' or downright lies!

Dovah_diva

This is an excellent example of how to post a story without churning out incorrect details.

Read and learn

Although I see you've now edited your OP, the whole thread is still peppered with your inaccuracies.

gettingready

My inaccuracies?

I have not edited OP and you - get someone else to pick on/lecture, on your skates.. yawnnnnn @ your comments

moggymutt

The only one to know the total truth is the mother, she will obviously never forget the fact that her daughter died in such a horrific way, and may possibly never even be able to genuinely remember exactly what happened- the incident may be unintentionally altered in her mind to make her feel less guilty without her meaning to.

It is just totally tragic in every way.

When I worked in a boarding kennels I only ever got bitten by 2 (pedigree) dogs- a retriever and a butterfly dog. I was fine with the breeds that were deemed more dangerous and all the mongrels, most of whom had been rescues.