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Mum's dog bit my LO

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  • GlamGirlie wrote: »
    The dog should be put down. Immediately.

    What an awful comment.

    Why kill the dog when there are other, easily enforceable, options?

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  • Person_one
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    tesuhoha wrote: »
    But the grandmother did not remove the child from the situation of being in close proximity to two bull terrier type dogs. The child should not have been there. Why take the smallest risk?

    This is a terrible, tragic incident, but what does it have to do with the OP's situation, really?

    The above reads as though children should never ever be anywhere near a dog, even though loads of children love dogs and have wonderful relationships with family pets. Children are exposed to varying levels of risk all the time, depending on lifestyle/location/hobbies etc.

    http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/17/five-year-old-british-girl-drowns-in-cyprus

    This is a terrible, tragic incident too but I don't remember any calls for children to be kept well away from water at all times because, why take the smallest risk of drowning?
  • Pollycat
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    Person_one wrote: »
    This is a terrible, tragic incident, but what does it have to do with the OP's situation, really?

    The above reads as though children should never ever be anywhere near a dog, even though loads of children love dogs and have wonderful relationships with family pets. Children are exposed to varying levels of risk all the time, depending on lifestyle/location/hobbies etc.
    I agree with this.

    The article mentions 2 dogs in the household but says only one attacked the baby and only one was put down.
  • Nicki
    Nicki Posts: 8,166 Forumite
    edited 6 October 2014 at 11:45AM
    What does it have to do with OP's situation? Really??

    The OPs mother has a dog which has bitten her grandchildren 3 times already. So a dog known to be unsafe around children. The dog in the article is alleged by neighbours to have been known to be unsafe around children. The dog in the article killed a baby who could not have provoked this attack by harming or hurting the dog in any way. OP says her son didn't do anything to provoke the attack on him.

    You don't have to be Einstein to see the relevance of the article to the OP. Dogs who are known to be unsafe around children can cause extremely serious injuries and even kill small children. Therefore the OP is not being at all unreasonable to say she will not visit the mother with her small child whilst the dog remains there. Nor would she be unreasonable or spiteful to report the dog for biting her child and allow the appropriate authorities to assess the situation and decide whether the dog is sufficiently dangerous to require being PTS.
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