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Originally Posted by
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Is what enough for me? It wasn’t up to me to make the decision and apparently not to have an opinion either as I wasn’t there.
Regarding your current dog I merely asked if you would do things different now as you said yourself you didn’t think the rescue would pts but it did I wondered if that had changed your mind regarding what you would do. IE have it vet checked first and maybe get a behaviourist in. I find it strange that it only needs you to think someone might be at risk.
Please don’t accuse people who have said they would do it different to you to be anti-kid I think its been proved on here that people are not anti child just would of done things differently to you.
The majority (in fact all) parents I know in "real life" would remove their child from a dangerous situation. A dog biting a child severe enough to draw blood, completely unprovoked, is a dangerous situation. As a parent it is your duty to protect your child - whether it is from your own beloved family pet or not. The child comes first ALWAYS for me and most parents.
If it were me, I would have probably asked a family member that didn't have children, to look after the dog whilst I arranged a behaviourist/vet checks or whatever was needed, to be carried out. Then taken action on the advice given.
However, not everybody has family members without young children, that are willing to take on a dog with problems. GreyhoundK did the best she could at the time, I imagine. Which was to remove the dog from the family home and placed the dog in a Rescue where it could be assessed. She has said so many times now that the dog was pts WITHOUT HER CONSENT OR KNOWLEDGE, as her owners rights were relinquished when she put the dog in the Rescue. The professionals felt putting to sleep to be the only option. I can't imagine that a Rescue would have taken that action lightly. After all, aren't they there for the welfare of the dog