Thread: Chained dog bites girl....

Its legal to chain animals in CAN?

Terriers are known to be agressive dogs, the more smaller the breed the bigger the attitude. My mom has a rat terrier and that dog can be sweet one minute the next snapping at you.

In this incident it is totally the dad's fault. He should have been watching his child more closely. If the dog had been loose then yeah i would say be partly the dogs fault but the dog was chained up. You went into his space. And killing the dog was too much. I got bite by a larger dog when i was little that went almost to the bone on my arm, because I did a stupid thing and got in its face when it was eating. It was my fault but did I have my parents hurt the dog or blame the owner no. I was at fault. In this instance since the kid is so small the child isnt at fault either this falls squarely on the father.

Originally Posted by SmokenScion

Its legal to chain animals in CAN?

ive never heard of it not being legal anywhere...?

i would beat that mother fucker intoa comma for doing that to a defenseless dog

I know in Dallas it is illegal to chain your dog. I side with this being the fathers fault and I don't care how good of a friend you are you beat my dog to death when its chained or defenseless. you'll be catching a .45 round with your teeth and that's for real son.

it would be a whole different story had this dog had someone's daughter pinned and was mauling her but that's not the case.

Legally? Owners of the dog are probably going to be under heat because they knew their dog had a problem and they left it outside. A little girl isn't going to know the difference and isn't going to think about it. The dog barks, she trips, dog bites. Owners of the dog should be in plenty of trouble as well, rightfully so.

The article is not clear as to how the girl got hurt though. It does not say the dad was around. It doesn't say. I just read through them a second time looking for it. It just says they were outside playing and all and then it skips to him taking the girl into the house. There is a HUGE gap there and all of yall are making an assumption that a dad wasn't watching a little bitty rat terrier (aggressive but small, come on would YOU watch your kids that close around it, especially chained up?) and his daughter 100% closely. For all the wife knows the dad was inside the other house and his daughter was "heading back to the other house" and the dad heard the screams and ran outside where he reacted.

I think legally the evidence, article wise, is there against the owners. However the articles don't give enough evidence as to what was going on.

Realistically, beating the dog to death was overkill. Especially if they were good neighbors he could have just kicked the shit out of it and gotten it to leave the girl alone. Maybe he reacted a little too much? Yeah, sure. But he was a father protecting his daughter. Albeit from a little shit but still. Both sides are entirely at fault but I think, legally, the owners of the dog will get in more trouble.

Originally Posted by Sfrichck

Terriers are known to be agressive dogs.

This. its not so much the small dog, big attitude, but what terriers were bred to do. They hunt. Rodents and foxes. If you're really curious, youtube terriers ratting and you'll see how viscous terriers CAN be.

Regardless, if I know that a dog nearby has snapped at a child of mine before, especially a young child who can't necessarily defend themself, I'm keeping them the fuck away.

I'm curious as well how long he spent "putting the dog out of its misery" rather than tending to his own child. It makes it sound as if it wasn't the first time the guy has other had issues with the dog, or he felt much more strongly about the growling and nipping before hand (which again, why was the child still able to be around the dog?).