Another fatal dog attack

[Viviennemary]

I felt sick when I just saw this on Sky News. A nine month old baby in Wales. Its desperately sad. But when is anything going to be done about those dangerous dogs. Legislation is needed.

The fact you let a baby suck at the nose of a scared dog is insane. Why put your dog through it, let alone risk your child’s safety - which was at risk no matter how closely you were monitoring, their faces were touching, so how quickly do you think you could have intervened? Before teeth met face?

I didn't let her, calm your tits and learn how to read

I’m not sure that repeatedly having her close enough to a scared dog’s face to try and suck various parts of it is much better tbh.

OK, upset yourself over something that didn't happen. I don't honestly give a shit. Knock yourself out.😄

Child protection are already inundated. I don’t know what alerting them to the presence of a dangerous dog in the house would do. They would have to put the child on n a plan and give the parents the chance to do the right thing and rehome the dog. There’s not enough foster homes as it is.
That said, I would be really uncomfortable with assessing a home environment as ‘safe’ when they had an XL bully. It’s like having a loaded gun at home.

I still wouldn’t have had the baby anywhere near the dog. In a split second, it could savage her face, even with you there , the damage could be done. I just wouldn’t risk it.

I have to admit I can’t really picture it either?

grim

How could the baby try to suckle off the dog if it was nowhere near close enough?

I wouldn’t have a dog which I couldn’t overpower and I wouldn’t ever have had a dog around children under the age of about 9 or 10. Having an XL, a Rottweiler etc at home is sharing your home with an unpredictable force of
nature. Dogs can snap at any moment, even usually chilled ones.

Most sensible answer I’ve seen so far!

Still no details released about the type if dog. Why not. Agree with your post. Why have these breeds around babies and small children. What is wrong with these people.

It’s just been confirmed that it was an XL bully.

Not surprised at all. The ban needs to go further and prevent them being in houses with children. If an adult is stupid enough to keep them then that’s on then but their children should not be put at risk like this

This is meant to be a banned breed. I thought

Apparently it was registered even before it was a legal requirement. Why, oh why, would parents allow these monsters as a pet?

I honestly believe that these sort of people don't have brains that are wired as sophisticatedly as most. Almost like they're living in a more primitive state of mind where they revel in the idea of having a brute dog to 'protect' their clan members (and confer a very dubious status, of course). Also, describing a brute dog as 'like a second Mum' as though the boundary between human and animal is blurred.

The owners all are thick. I've noticed that whenever there's an XL incident in the news on facebook all the XL owners pile in commenting. I always have a nose on their profiles (they're too dim to have private fb) and they post endless rubbish. Usually the "this post has been removed after fact checking" type newsfeed 🙄.

Thick as fucking mince. I hope whoever had responsibility for the dog faces the consequences they deserve. That poor child, it must have been terrifying for him, it’s horrendous just imagining being killed like that

Parents should be charged with neglect if it is their dog. How can anyone put their dog before their child?

It was almost certain to be.

There's a direct correlation between the lower the IQ the bigger the brute dog.

I thought they were banned in Wales or is it just England?

They are banned but that law only came into place either earlier this year or last, so people who already owned one have to agree to certain stipulations such as being registered with the vet and being muzzled in public. Unfortunately this doesn’t actually prevent fatalities in the home, but a number of fatal attacks prior to this were from rogue dogs so to speak so I suppose that is something.

Poor baby, though.

So it was an XL Bully, I can't say I'm overly surprised. I'm accustomed to large breeds of dog but I wouldn't want to be anywhere near one of those bloody things. That poor baby.