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Disgusting
5/20/2016 at 9:52 PM
There are no words for this.
Our friends in Edmonton just went through this same ordeal. He walked his dog every night on a leash and this one night about six weeks ago a rottie mix dashed from his house (apparently he bolted right through a screen door), attacked our friends' dog nearly killing her. She has had two surgeries already to repair a broken jaw and fix some puncture wounds and she has a broken tooth that still needs to be fixed. Our friend was also injured in the attack, he had bites and a torn knee ligament. They too, have spent thousands already on surgeries.
What gets me is the owner of the offending dog has been "spoken to" by Edmonton bylaw, but as far as we know he has not been charged with anything nor is there any way for them to go after him for the costs. There is something VERY wrong with a system that these ignorant and incompetent owners are not punished so that this cannot happen again.
Heck, my neighbor owns a god that has bitten a police officer and nearly bit a postman and for some reason she is not being forced to surrender the dog.
Agreed though - it is not about a breed. It is about poor owners who have no concept of safe training and care of the bigger breeds. Even a chihuahua can be a monster, the only reason bigger breeds are faulted more in the media when they attack is because they physically have more bite force and damage capacity behind them.
I feel for that family!! Poor dog.