Another child killed by a dog...

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Another poor child is killed by a dog.... We already know this is an XL Bully, don't even have to wait for confirmation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce35zkl9dg3o

Joyous have a link for this? Ive Googled and not seeing anything.

Yes I'd like to know to. Google isn't returning anyting.

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Two more arrests over the Redcar incident.

From Skynews:

Two more arrests have been made in connection with the death of a three-month-old baby girl from a suspected dog bite.
A 31-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of child neglect and being a person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control resulting in death following the incident in Redcar last Thursday.

Cleveland Police also said on Monday a 36-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of being a person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control resulting in death.
Both have since been released on conditional bail.
Neither of them are connected to the family of the baby, Cleveland Police said.

With the lurcher attack, perhaps the pups were scrapping and the victim went to try split them up and then the mother attacked.

Double post

It was reported that the lurcher’s “pups” are 18 months old, not young puppies, and both were downstairs when the incident happened upstairs, in the father’s bedroom.

It is odd. Doubtless more will emerge in time.

Maybe the pups had been fighting in the bedroom, where the subsequent attack took place, but had wandered downstairs by the time the father arrived home?

Another possibility: I wonder if the lurcher, Shy, could have a brain tumor. That can lead to uncharacteristic aggression in dogs. It's such an odd story, a lurcher (who doesn't look particularly huge in the photos I've seen) managing to overpower and kill a fully-grown girl who's owned it since puppyhood.

Google shows plenty of headlines from media Facebook pages, there are plenty of comments. The father’s FB has photos of several bull breed dogs, an 8 week old male pup offered “free” in October 2024 is very clearly a bully cross (with merle marking), fair to guess it was from the same litter as the two he kept.

I hope it can be established exactly what happened. I wonder which dogs police found in the property. He was quick to court the media and blame the lurcher.

Any angry dog can seriously hurt people.

All dogs are potential killers. Even a chihuahua.

Your day to day life must be terrifying.

Curiosity has got the better of me and I share your suspicions regarding the breeding of the pups from what I’ve seen. I think the lurcher must have caused the fatal injury but the other dogs may have been the catalyst for the incident.

So the bullies made the.lurcher bite her throat out?

Could be inter pack aggression

Lol ok

Not sure why that is funny

from Google:

Inter-pack aggression, that is, dogs living in the same household suddenly become aggressive to one another for no apparent reason

Inter-pack aggression often focuses on issues of social status and control, which become apparent at social maturity (approximately 18 to 36 months of age in dogs). Inter-pack aggression can be initiated by a young dog that is becoming socially mature or by the older dog that perceives the changing status of the younger dog.

the lurcher turned on the girl and killed her.

I dont know why people are banging on about lurchers, its so unsual and rare (if indeed the lurcher did do it), that its irrelevant to the issue at hand.

As someone posted way way back on the thread, DEATHS by dogs are virtually not done by any other dog apart from the usual suspects. The lurcher is such an outlier as to be insignificant in terms of risk and patterns.

Perhaps it will be conclusively proved whether the injuries were consistent with the dog alleged to have caused them. Perhaps not.

You're like a terrier with a bone, Oona.

You’d have to lie very still to let a chihuahua kill you. For quite a long time.

Doesn't really matter why the dog killed her - brain tumour, ill, breaking up a fight with the other dogs, the fact remains she wouldn't be dead if it weren't for dogs. I fail to see the benefit of having a dog over this risk. They all have sharp teeth, they all eat meat. We are meat.

A lot of women and kids would not be dead if we just banned men.

Death from a dog attack is still very rare. How many people die at home from tripping down the stairs? Being hit by a car? Choking? Domestic violence?