Sausage dog kills baby

That's such a tragic story. How awful for Emily, going to check on the baby and finding the dog with blood on it's mouth and the baby on the floor with head injuries. Horrific.

What do you mean?

So true. It's just a ridiculous situation. They're animals, not actually members of the family, and aren't equal to your children.
The number of times I've seen dogs lick babies' faces, or put their heads in the buggy or cot. It's just crazy.

My mum used to put a cat net over the pram if she left my brother asleep in it to prevent this.

What planet are you on?

Don’t think people are dismissing the idea that dogs can kill, but the facts don’t seem to fit in this case

Why are people do keen to dismiss the idea that dogs kill?

The dad was the last one to see the baby alive - that’s all I need to know 🤨

The Queen Mother nearly choked on a fish bone.

I almost can’t believe this… sounds .. convenient

Typical!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2002/12/27/dachshund-put-to-death-after-mauling-md-baby/d05a3d2a-f857-4c1a-8f6e-c0156477c548/

A dachshund that police said dragged a 6-week-old baby from his playpen and mauled him was put to death yesterday, St. Mary's County animal control officials said, ending a 10-day effort by the breed's admirers to save the tiny dog.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/baby-pulled-basket-mauled-death-29002159

Baby pulled from basket and mauled to death by rescue dog leaving family 'broken forever'
Mia O'Connell was killed at four months old by the terrier Dachshund cross who was found standing alongside the baby with blood on its mouth, an inquest heard

I think there is more to this story.

For one thing - why tether the dog every night? Why not just close the door?

And secondly, how did a Daschund get into a crib? They're horribly overbred, cruelly unhealthy, deformed beasts. They physically cannot jump onto a small step let alone into a crib.

Finally, silent strangulation is not how dogs attack. Ever. It goes completely against everything in their nature. The parents are speaking in the media as if they believe the dog planned this - which is impossible. They simply do not have the brain capacity to forward plan, nor to understand murder and death. If a dog kills it is for food or sport neither of which is ever silent. They have no sense of permanency. A dog can't know that killing a baby means the baby goes away forever.

My Dh managed to pin an adolescent male Doberman by pushing it down by its jaw. Nasty bite as he did it. The dog belonged to a recently deceased relative and attacked a teen relative who sustained some nasty bites. Poor dog. He was just traumatised and sad…
Dh still has the scar to this day. My dh is a big guy and experienced in handling big dogs including those bred for protection..and while he managed to pin the dog, it was a lot of work. A bully breed would be incredibly hard to pin by a large and strong adult. A sausage dog? Totally different situation.

Not in this house. Without a seatbelt my idiot would scramble out the window.

Maybe not silently, but maybe the parents are heavy sleepers/on a different floor. It's plausible to me that they didn't hear it.

My exact thoughts it’s all so bizarre.

our kids were amazing sleepers at 1 month they were still waking every 2-4 hours to feed.
How are you sleeping through the night at discovering it at 7am???

they didn’t rehome it or give it to a rescue. Bizarre.
they forgot to tie it up.
they didn’t close any doors.
their baby was left in a basinette on the floor.

No culture puts babies on floors in case you stand on them
dachshunds have crap backs so are hardly jumping to great heights…

your child died and you didn’t hear them.

just no…
as a mother i was constantly awake as every time sound my babies made woke me up… it was like your are biologically programmed,
Amy mother will say the same.
even now they are a floor away and ages 3 and 1 I’m like “wait… is that the baby???” At 2am on a Wednesday

it strangled the baby by the neck…. Hmmm no.
any dog owner will tell you this is BS. Dogs don’t hunt pray that way

This story is not the full story. no way…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxwvkenr9yro

23 April 2024
A mother-of-two said her "life has been ruined" after being attacked by a friend's dog.
Kelly Allen, 45, from Swansea, had part of her cheek ripped off by the tiny dachshund, who then began eating it in front of her.
Ms Allen needed five-and-a-half hours of plastic surgery and more than 40 stitches to treat the open wound on her face.
The dachshund, also known as a "sausage dog", was removed by police and later destroyed.

I’ve seen loads of posts from the XL bully supporters on Facebook today trying to use this tragic story to their advantage. I agree with you OP. I wouldn’t trust any dog with a child but it doesn’t change the fact that XL bully’s are dangerous and unpredictable and have killed loads more people (adults as well as children) than sausage dogs. Some people either just don’t want to face up to the truth or they are thick.

Pack of daschunds killed an adult not that long ago:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/mum-two-mauled-death-pack-12543080

Dachshunds are aggressive little sods. Could one bite a baby? Absolutely. Would it silently strangle one? Not a chance. Have you seen how short their legs are?! The parents are clearly lying.

All the treats in the world couldn't have persuaded my 3 cats to go near my 2 kids as babies, way too loud!

I'm thinking the very same. Our neighbour breeds Daschunds and he says their instinct is to grip by the throat and very aggressively shake in order to break the neck. And they snarl while they do it. There's no way a Daschund could shake a 8/9/10lb baby in this way and do it silently?

I am totally against dogs in homes with children, it just can't be worth the risk, you can't ever fully guard your children from them. People say they do, but that would be impossible. Poor baby, RIP.