Wwyd if a family members dog but your child on the face?

[inwood]

Just that really - dd is luckily ok now it we are very lucky it wasn't any worse.

We will not go there again while the dog is there.

I think this is a dangerous dog and they need to rehome. I don't think they agree or get the severity of the situation.

I would tell them the dog needs to be PTS to protect other children it might come into contact with. Once is once too often.

Also for all the hysterical pts the dog PP I really hope you don’t own dogs. The OP has no clue what happened and from what little info there is it sounds like it was a bad nip possibly in defence. Why do we expect dogs to tolerate kids regardless of the child’s behaviour? Teach kids to respect animals. I’ve worked with dogs with various types of aggression who have been rehabilitated to live happy life’s.
Once they’ve bitten they’ll do it again is utter bullshit, please get that out of your heads.

@bookworm
I thought that the dog breed responsible for the most bites was the Jack Russell Terrier (in the uk) or has that changed?
Sorry just curious

JRT definitely in top 5.
My comment was in response to the ignorant ‘dangerous breed’ comment as I know exactly what that’s aimed at 🙄

@Bookworm4, hence the inverted commas around the word.

There’s really not enough information here to make a judgment. Was the dog provoked? Was it a rescue dog with territorial issues? Is it used to strangers/children in its territory? Did the child hurt it by pulling its ear/stepping on a foot? Was it a warning nip such as an adult dog might give a misbehaving puppy or was there real aggression behind the nip?

The OP doesn't want to engage. She just wants an excuse never to visit her in laws again!

The dog that had a stroke and bit as a result is a bit scary to be honest

I read it as the person passing had the stroke,Not the dog.

I'm not sure, it depends what happened before hand. A nine yr old can do silly things.

Years ago a family member, he'll have been 8, got bit in the face by another family members dog. There were tears and he said it was random and unprovoked. After some grilling it turned out he'd been holding her head and gently blowing on her nose, she's growled he though it was funny did it a few more time and she finally bit him. Lovely dog has never bitten anyone before or again, all be it more of a warning nip but he had a bloody nose. As far as we were concerned, she bloody told him he didn't listen so he got a nip. Never did it again...

Make sure dds story is true, never leave you child alone with a potentially aggressive dog again (?), and make sure the owners are in better bloody control. If it happens again, maybe put down and report

@dustarr73
Yes it was the dog that had the stroke we didn't know it had had 1 till the attack. It was the stroke that killed the dog before we could get it pts

@BertrandRussell probably but you seem slightly over invested. I absolutely completely panicked when I hear her scream, grilling her on what happened wasn't top of my mind. We've since been through it, dog was wandering around our cases while I had a wee, dd strokes her nose to say goodbye, dog lunged. It wasn't a nip it was a bite. I've never moved so fast I my life. I've never been around a dog that can't be left for what - 90 seconds to have a wee? We have dogs, dd has grown up with dogs. She knows how to behave.

Dog is a rescue, 7 years old, we've visited a few times but dog was locked away when the kids were really small. Now I know why. They are at fault for not disclosing.

My blame isn't the dog but the bloody family owners which was the point of my original post - it's irrelevant now, we won't visit there ever again if the dog is there.

Well yes the owners are in the wrong here if he isn’t great with kids (hence been locked away when they were younger).

They should have made you aware and then you wouldn’t have left dog and DD alone together.