05-15-2014, 06:38 PM
RAMd®d wrote:
Always some DB who needs to talk tough about lawsuits.
Always some DH that misses the point.
The dog needs to be put down, and now we know it will be.
But if it were my child that was attacked, a lawsuit is more responsible and generally considered more acceptable then me killing the dog. Since we know know what will happen, there would be no motivation on my part to file suit. I'm not litigious by nature.
As of last night, I don't know anything about the owner, so I don't know if the dog was set upon the boy let alone trained to attack. The dog was off leash which might be a violation in that jurisdiction. It may have just got loose on it's own.
As of the last I read, the owner's actions and extent of culpability have yet to be determined.
I could train that dog.
Maybe you could. But I don't trust the ability of that dog to be rehabilitated. For whatever reason, that dog saw the child as prey and hunted him down. I don't know that the dog was trained to do that. If it was, it could probably be untrained. But the fact that the cat was able to force it off the boy makes me think the attack wasn't a result of a command or training. That is enough to make me mistrust that dog.
One of the news anchors said that the mother was also bit. I haven't seen any other mention of that so I don't know if it's an accurate report. I don't believe that dog could ever be trusted.
I think that we're just hardwired to kill as a solution.