Our dog bit me :(

[Jellymuffin]

Yesterday our dog bit my face, completely unprovoked though he had got out unknown to us and come back in so could have been stressed. We have a toddler who is typical tough and tumble. The dog and DS get on reasonably well but dog has always been nervous around him. The dog is 10 and my husband is adamant he has to go :( I understand why but feel so terrible about losing a member of the family. He really is a quiet and sweet little dog and this was massively out of character for him. AIBU to want to keep him when he is a potential danger to my beautiful child?

I am glad it has been a good outcome jelly, it is because of toddler and Young childrens unpredictable behaviour, and that dogs themselves can be unpredictable, that I will not be getting a dog until my kids are in their teens.

I don't think I'll ever understand the mindset of those who are more bothered about pulling people up on their netiquette than they are about the fact that someone has just proudly admitted to killing a dog I don't know anyone who would react like this in real life... parallel universe springs to mind!

So as usual mumsnet does not give a toss about animal abuse?
It's ok to gloat about the theft and tourture, but because it was an animal it does not matter.
I wonder why i don't come on here very much anymore?
Netmums may piss me off with some of their niceness and their lack of being able to put want butthey don't stand for posts like that.

I wish people would stop all the "unpredictable behaviour" crap. Animals such as dogs and horses are very consistent in their behaviour. If you can't predict them then most of the time it's your failure to read them, not their fault for being unpredictable.

Dogs and horses are often used in therapy precisely because they are consistent. And it's valuable to be able to read their body language because you can then see how often human body language is out of kilter with their verbal language and learn to avoid lying arseholes.

And breathe.

A pity he can't move on (or be moved on - Mn HQ!) from mumsnet in general

hmcAsWas except mn won't do that. As the posts are about animals he and they will be allowed to stay

I can't believe MN's reply

OP, I am glad you didn't put the dog to sleep, I hope you are holding up ok

"My dog has now been rehomed by an amazing charity, no concrete cages, straight into an experienced dog owners home."

Brilliant news Jelly. Even though he's alive I can't imagine how you must be feeling since losing a much loved part of your family .

I am sickened to see that post boasting about killing a dog. Andrew you were an adult at 18, you still hate dogs so you clearly feel no remorse, you're a sick individual. But I'm grateful that it was highlighted so I can make others aware of your disgusting agenda on future animal threads. And I don't care if it's considered "bad form", I think killing someone's pet is considerably worse form.

I am glad you were able to have your little dog rehomed, I was worried that you would find it too difficult as he had bitten, but he bit you because he was stressed (even if it was all of 15 minutes previously - he's a dog not a goldfish). It must have been a really difficult decision to make but i totally understand why you made it.

As for the fucking idiot who boasted about killing a dog, well fuck etiquette - two things.

I call troll, YES, TROLL TROLL TROLL i didn't read the other thread, in fact, i didn't even read the post where someone brought it up - i read the disgusting troll saying that he had no regrets about killing someone's pet.

I don't believe him, no one would admit to that unless a) they hadn't actually done it and was just trying to upset people or b) had some serious issues.

I think MNHQ's response is extremely bad form, this should have been investigated and the poster banned and reported to the police, i believe deliberate animal cruelty is a crime after all. But no, we get our fingers rapped for calling him out on it. I can't help but wonder if its because he is a man and they don't want to be accused of sexism. It seems an extremely lame response to me.

TheoriginalLEM I am so glad that you mentioned the police as I felt that privately too. I am still incredulous at the response.

The problem is he did this 45 years ago. It's difficult, ime, to get the police to take current stuff seriously. They won't do anything about this.

Goodness knows what other stuff he has done though,

of course they wont be interested due to the time, i agree but i am honestly stunned ny hq's response. Genuinely disappointed

I am utterly shocked by what I've read. Not only does a poster admit to KILLING a dog, MNHQ decide to focus on people being bad mannered, rather than someone who's committed a crime by killing a dog...!

Op, I'm glad you didn't have your dog pts. I hope things work out at the new home :)

Perhaps we should raise this again under site stuff?

They won't do anything Hmc, it's all about attracting numbers to the site, hence the 'we welcome all ages, men etc' statement'. They will have seen the posts but are ignoring it.
People won't leave over it so they don't care.

Hmc - i thought the same but it will be shut down as a thread about a thread. And i'd probably get banned for daring to question HQ. I wont leave because i'm here for the posters/support/funny shit posted by posters and mostly ignore the advertising posted by mnet these days. Another thread (which i didn't read) was allowed to run last night where a vulnerable poster was pilloried and harrased, it was reported 100s of times but not removed until this morning because, despite all the advertising revenue, mnet budget doesn't run to a night shift. I think HQ need to have a look at their "what is acceptable" policies and what isn't.

lem i have messaged mn about other threads ( not about that poster) but they do not give a toss.
They once told me that other posters were saying enough so it was sorted.
I am appalled and disgusted with their response and this site.

No Iam, anyone who has a dog around children and doesn't learn to recognise the dog's body language and respect it is careless.

If the dog bites it generally means that the dog's stress signals have not been understood and the dog has been pushed too far. Either that or the dog is ill/in pain.

Of course some dogs have to be pts following a bite, but it has only got to that stage because owners have not socialised the dog, or have not learnt to recognise the subtle signs the dog is showing them.

I think people like you are a bit hysterical Iam

How do you feel about people who drive with their children, cars after all being far more likely to injure or kill a child than a dog.