Childminder's dog has bitten DD

This woman shouldn’t be looking after children with a dog that bites. I would report to police.

That’s just not true

It depends a little. I have a puppy and at 8 months still chewing and nipping as her teeth finish coming through. There's nothing aggressive in it but then again if I were a childminder, I'd not leave my puppy with other people's children even if she were a puppy and nipping. My children are older (youngest 11) and if I'm out, I put her in her pen so she can't nip them when I'm out.

Was a mark left?
Did childminder mention it just to cover herself and it wasn't really a 'bite'.

We need more info really.

@Nextdoor55
Exactly.
Hope the loon who was going to kill the dog herself has had a nice cup of tea and calmed down.

Smells like a hand grenade.

This isn't a real post, there is no childminder, there is no dog, there is likely no child and there is no bite. Relax everyone

Sadly, people are too quick to label a dog as aggressive, dangerous and needs to be put to sleep. They’re quick to say it’s happened once so it will definitely happen again. Sometimes people just don’t want to hear any kind of circumstance where it was an accident, they’re just determined the dog should die.

This is why the details matter. Perhaps the childminder was supervising at all times and an accident, similar to what happened with your son, occurred. People don’t care though, they just want to vilify the childminder and the dog because it’s easier.

The OP hasn’t been back since their initial post so everyone is grasping at straws. The childminder will have to go through due process and is likely devastated it’s happened. Reports will be made, checks will happen, there will likely be some sort of investigation or inspection. Until details are shared though it’s extremely unfair to declare this poor woman/man as being unfit to be a childminder. It’s downright ludicrous to demand the dog be put to sleep with no further information. Rather than go on a witch-hunt, perhaps people should wait until they hear more detail.

what a stupid comment. Like, really? if you have a dog, you have the responsiblity, all dogs can bite. It was completely our responsibility for not realising that the child had literally jumped on a sleeping dog, who reacted. Just like you would if someone jumped on you if you were asleep in bed, you know? you might hit out or worse, which would be illegal under any other circumstances, but you react.
Get some reality, things are not black and white! yes I agree if a dog kills a child, (which would by the way be a huge dog with a big bite), it would be a police matter, this wasn't.
No vet would have agreed for her to be PTS. I have worked with dogs for years, and I know each case is taken on its own merits.
A dog isn't 'aggressive' because they can bite, because all dogs can. Just like someone can hit under some circumstances. Its the owners responsibility, always. In this case, it is the childminder who is at fault.

At this stage I think the op is a wind up merchant. One post to get everyone frothing.

WTAF ?? 😳

To be fair I took the OP in good faith and assumed they were reacting to what happened, and presumably had no action since. If the childminder had profusely apologised, contacted the authorities herself and told OP the plans for the dog I’d hope that would be mentioned lol

No there are other childcare options out there…

This is hard to answer without any information on the incident. My dog bit my son in the face when he was 2 or 3. She was sleeping on the carpet and he tripped over her and fell on her. She just snapped backwards as a reaction and grazed his cheek with her teeth. No puncture wound from an actual bite, but her tooth scratched his face quite deep.
She has never been agressive before or after that. It happened when she was 8 years old and she was still with us until recently when she died at 16.
It was just an accident, nothing malicious from the dog or my son. I should have been more alert and i was definitely more careful and keeping an eye on the dog at all times when she was near my son.
But she never showed any aggression or anything towards him.

Just a reaction? Could be a fatal reaction! Once that has happened the dog should be pts, it can never be trusted again.

No it doesn’t, it only matters that the child was bitten, not whether the dog had a funny turn or was provoked.

So if it was last week, what action have you taken so far?

I wouldn’t have sent my dc to a childminder with a dog to begin with. I have a dog. A very lovely good dog who loves and protects my dc. She can still be bouncy and playful and you cannot have your eye on them all the time, especially with multiple children to care for.

Anyway, I would report at least to Ofsted/local authority. It doesn’t sound like this is a safe set up as a childminder and I would hope they would shut her down.

My dc would not be going back there and I would expect to be released from my contract.

Odd the @Jugglingitall85 hasn't been back?

I don't know, where is the context? We had a dog that bit a child in the face once, she was a little poodle, child literally jumped on her, it was totally our fault because we actually didn't know that the dog was sleeping on the sofa, dog never bit anyone before or after, it was just a reaction. Childminder is responsible for allowing dog in the same space as child, you cannot trust any dog or child to be respectful of dogs, they just don't know.

the context doesn't matter because it's in a childcare setting. If the dog bit, the childminder does not have a safe space for children. It doesn't matter what the context is around the bite.

I don’t think there’s enough context given to be sure what I would do tbh - at the absolute very very least I would be making certain CERTAIN that the dog is not in contact with my child or any others and is secured elsewhere at her house… I would think she is doing this anyway surely. I would have lost my confidence in her that’s for sure. Was it an actual aggressive bite or is it possible your child was poking dog and dog snapped at her? I am not minimising the risk of children-dog interactions and these should not happen imo at all- there should be no contact between her dog and the children in her care anyway - but it’s very rare for a dog to suddenly bite and injure. Dogs issue many warning behaviours before they resort to a bite- where was the childminder and what was the lead up to this? It would make me think that she was either not present (not acceptable) or that your child was interacting with dog badly whilst under supervision; both are clearly unacceptable. Any other children there apart from yours?? How well do you know the childminder and the dog??

No dog should be left unsupervised with small children, and the circumstances around the biting incident are important, for instance was your child allowed to approach the dog whilst eating, having a treat, was the child being too rough and there was no one around to intervene.
I wouldn’t be clamouring to have the dog put down immediately without being in possession of all the facts.
its needs reporting it to Ofsted amd to the police and I would be asking how on earth such an incident had taken place if adequate supervision was as it should have been.
Both childminders we used when we needed them had dogs, the dogs were allowed to mix with the children in certain areas of the home, never at meal times, the children weren’t allowed into the dogs room, where they would be popped after a walk etc to have their sleeping, chews etc both dogs were very well trained and have lovely temperaments.
We have dogs ourselves, our children have never been allowed to pull them around, clamber on them, sit in their beds, go near them whilst they are eating or tired after walks.
To be fair to the dog it may have been put in a situation where its warnings, a growl etc were ignored and its has resorted to snapping, and unfortunately a child’s face is about the same level as a medium size dogs height.
This incident is solely your child minders fault, either she’s got a dog in her setting that is unpredictable or she’s allowed a situation to occur where the dog has reacted for whatever reason and your child has been hurt, I hope the injuries are not too severe and your little one is soon on the mend.
I wouldn’t be using her services again as I wouldn’t be able to trust her judgement at all and would be making sure that all relevant authorities are aware, although she should have reported it herself.

not sure what that's got to do with anything

Surely no one would make up another vicious dog story about a dog biting a child just to get posters frothing? 🤨