Boy 10 mauled to death at holiday park

[Witchofzog]

I can't link on this phone but it is on most news sites. The owner was found off site after a police hunt so possibly fled when she knew her dog had killed a child. It's just awful - a young boy probably just going to the loo in the middle of the night on a campsite having his life ended because of a dangerous dog and an owner who can't control and/ or keep it securely away

Knew the deluded dog fetishists would be on to defend their fur babies no matter what. Sickening.

“Truly unprovoked dog attacks are incredibly rare“

Yep. Someone says that every time.

www.news24.com/You/Archive/little-boy-killed-by-family-labrador-in-horror-attack-20170728

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2003849/Boy-3-left-horrific-facial-injuries-Labrador-savages-Poole-Harbour.html

metro.co.uk/2019/04/13/mothers-agony-six-week-old-baby-attacked-dog-9196094/

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1288786/Familys-border-collie-leaps-car-mauls-baby.html

2 Labradors, a lakeland terrier and a border collie.
NO dog should be left alone with a baby/child. Breed is not important.

@ avocados
Glad ther is someone else with an enquiring mind.
@deadwife
Looking at all possibilities isn't deluded or sickening, it's called rational.

It's just awful, like others have said we don't really now what happened yet. But dogs can and do attack unprovoked... on Xmas eve my 17 year old niece was attacked by a Staffordshire Bull terrier completely unprovoked, sister stopped for her to go to cashpoint, niece got money out as she walked away she dropped a note bent to pick up and dog that was tied up 7/8 foot away jumped, bit on face, niece had to hit the dog to get it off, it got her millimetres from her eye.

All dogs can attack but the breed does make a difference to damage that can be caused

More owners should be rational then Bookworm.

Prohibited breeds make up for less than a third of reported incidents.
The (very rare) death rate from dog attacks has risen slightly since the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 came into place, with the banned breeds list.

Owners/people need to know that any breed can attack, and not to be complacent just because its not on the prohibited breeds list and/or is 'cute' and fluffy.

These dogs should be banned. Too many idiots are attracted to them.

It's almost always one of these Staffies or 'bulldog cross'. I won't let my kids even go for a sleepover with people who have them in their homes.

I read today that the boy was in the caravan alone with the dog. At 5am. In my mind, that changes matters slightly. Had there been adults there, they may have prevented the tragedy. Not saying the dog wasn't dangerous but a 9 year old boy should not be alone in a caravan at 5am?

@Bookworm4

What you are suggesting is not ‘looking at all the possibilities’. You seem so obsessed with the dog being the victim that you have forgotten that a child has died.

Any animal that takes harmless human actions as provocation to attack has no business being in public or near children. While it might not be the dog’s fault it has these reactions it is still not safe to interact with people.

My stupid neighbours have a completely out of control collie. DD cannot play in our back garden until we have saved enough money to raise our fences high enough to reliably keep the dog out. Since they moved in last year it has gotten into the garden three times. They laugh each time about how clever the dog is and how cheeky he can be. No, it is terrifying to find an out of control dog running around your garden. It is totally out of control, has not recall but they seem to think it is safe enough locked in their garden. They are idiots and I would rather my child didn’t have to suffer for someone else being a selfish, dog obsessed moron.

It matters not to me that the dog has been made this way by its owner. It is not safe and is a possible threat to my daughter. Anyone who puts the life of a dog before that of a child is dangerous and shouldn’t be allowed to own dogs.

and it just didn't occur to them that the dog would attack the boy himself.

^

Thing is, it NEEDS to occur to these idiots who own these dogs.

Dispicable.

@bowchica
Stop being so ignorant and ill informed. I own rescue bull breeds who are well socialised and well trained and better behaved than most dogs we meet. Will we ban terriers, Labrador too?
The DDA has been proven unfit for purpose, it should be deed not breed.
Educate yourself.

@belle
I think you need to improve your reading skills, I have pointed out that this was the result of human error; the owners, the parents.
Looking at the whole picture isn't obsessed it's rational compared to the hysteria that surrounds these cases.

We should ban anyone without any common sense from owning a dog. Dog licenses are the only way.

These stories are always the same. The dog is always known to the child and the owner always claims that the dog would never hurt a fly.

The problem is deluded owners who like their dog is a human being with a rational mind and not an animal. They don’t bother to properly train their dog and are surprised when the dog reacts like an animal and not a rational human being.

I can give you the findings now: don’t ever leave a child unsupervised with a dog. Don’t ever trust your friend because they say their dog is ‘harmless’. Don’t ever deluded yourself that your dog is anything more than a dog and treat it as such- a family pet.

@Bookworm4

No, you tried to blame the dead child for ‘provoking’ the dog based on no evidence. You first post was a litany of reasons why the dog wasn’t at fault but the child might be.

It does not matter why the dog attacked. It matters that the child was left alone with the dog. People need to stop assuming that this is a normal thing to do. Making excuses for the dog masks the problem- dogs with behavioural issues who can be provoked (for minor reasons) to maul to death a human being should not be mixing with people.

Bookworm I don’t need to ‘educate’ myself. You have tried to blame a nine year old boy for being attacked by a dangerous dog. You are vile.

Why was a 9 year old child left alone with a dog? It was other people on the site that ran into the caravan to try to help according to the papers.

Of course it is awful and very sad but the mother has to take a lot if not all of the blame. She seems to parent in the same style as the McCanns

@bow
I said we don't know what happened; I pointed out there could be a variety of reasons, that's not blaming, it's questioning. At the end of the day it is the mother who failed her son.

The horrible dog killed a boy though. That is a fact.

It doesn't matter what may have triggered the dog to attack. The point is that dogs are not safe and should not be left in the same space as children. This was particularly unsafe as the child was entirely on his own in a confined space with a large known dangerous dog.

There clearly needs to be more control over dog ownership, I'd be quite happy to make it quite an involved registration process with strong penalties for those who own an unregistered dog. These kinds of deaths caused by negligent dog ownership are entirely avoidable.

the hysteria that surrounds these cases @bookworm you use such a dismissive tone. I think if you can’t be a little hysterical over the death of a child then when can you be?? It is human instinct to protect the most vulnerable. These stories cause so much distress because it is about our most vulnerable members of society (small children). It’s an absolute tragedy, and not a time to leap to the defence of what is clearly an out of control animal.

The dog killed the boy. It is primarily the vile dog's fault.
Stupid adults second.

Can't believe the owner tried to run away with her dog that she knew was dangerous. REALLY hope she goes to prison. Did the law ever get changed so such scum can be prosecuted after Jade Anderson was mauled to death by yet more of these 'bulldog type' dogs?