The phone number to Bossier City Animal Control, where the Pit Bull puppy is being quarantined, is 318-741-8499. This puppy should not have to take the blame for this tragic incident. People in general give the Pit Bull breed a bad rep!
2006-12-15 06:00:13 · 24 answers · asked by Jason B 1 in Pets ➔ Dogs
By putting the puppy in quarantine they are not "blaming" the puppy. Its mandatory by law if a dog bites a person they have to go into rabies quarantine. I agree that Pit Bulls get a bad rap because negligent/abusive people don't take the time to train them properly or train them to be aggressive towards people. Just FYI, more people are bit by Golden Retrievers and Yorkshire Terriers than by Pit Bulls.
2006-12-15 06:04:38 · answer #1 · answered by GPcrazy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After the mandatory quarantine, I do hope this pup receives some formal obedience training and is then introduced into a loving environment that will nurture him rather than train him to be the violent animal that most people expect from this breed. Any one who has ever owned a dog knows that they are what you teach them to be. However, a 6 week old pup knows no more than a 6 month old child. They are babies themselves.
Having said that, I do hope the infant recovers quickly and is placed with a family who will love it and care for it as it should be. This is a tragedy that could have been avoided. As a parent of four, I have never left a one month old infant out of eye sight --not even when they were napping.(Yes I am an over protective parent.) I did elect to keep my home pet free until my children were older. I think this is best for both the child and an animal. Small children do not know how to interect with animals and what they consider playing can be viewed as threatening and it can result in injury. Punishing a child or an animal when they are too young to understand their actions is cruelty. My youngest is five and we just introduced an indoor pet and they interact well. She is old enough to know not to be rough and can help with training the pup not to be rough as well. Besides, if you adopt a small pup when you have a small child, there will always be times where one or the other lacks the needed attention as both are very demanding. People--please consider this when you think of adopting a new pet as a companion for your newborn, infant or toddler.
I personally would not opt for a large breed dog with small children anyway because even play can end up too rough with a large dog and a small child, but when children (even older children) live in a home with a pet, they should be supervised properly. You CANNOT leave children and animals alone. That would be negligent--to both the child and the animal. To teach them both proper behavior you must know what is going on at all times.
It breaks my heart to think of this poor infant who is in pain because of the lack of a watchful eye--but that is the culprit. The dog did not know better and in regard to the comment made about this being inappropriate behavior: In my area there was a three year old child who had to have facial reconstruction because the family's warlock doberman mangled her. Authorities wanted to put the dog down but in the end, the owner was at fault. The animal had not been fed in several days and the child had a candy bar when she walked past the chained dog. You CANNOT make such judgements when the circumstances surrounding the incident are unknown. It's quite possible this dog had been starved--and in any living creature, hunger will supercede any "acceptable behavior".
A parent with a pet who does not monitor both the pet and the child at all times, shouldn't have a pet or a child. Let's all hope this baby will recover quickly and be placed with a wonderful family...and let's also hope the pup gets the same.
2006-12-15 06:48:38 · answer #2 · answered by Amy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why should the puppy take the fall? Animals do not know the difference between wright and wrong. I know that pups will try to suckle on anything remotely like a mothers nipple when they are hungry, maybe they did not feed the pup and the toes were the closest thing it could find. I also wonder just how a puppy that young chould actually chew off a toe. I just don't understand the whole thing, and the poor puppy gets the blame just because it's a pit. I have a pit, and she is the sweetest dog I have ever met in my life. It's not the breed, it's the owners who make the dogs mean.
2006-12-15 06:13:20 · answer #3 · answered by kritter0101 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The owners obviously don't deserve to own a dog or have children either if they're so lazy and ignorant that they can't be bothered to supervise the pup or the child!
The pup can't be blamed for negligent parenting but the parents of the child can and I hope they have the baby taken from them as well for it's own safety.
People like this should not be allowed to breed themselves nor should they EVER be allowed to own an animal of any kind again.
It's good the puppy is in quarantine as I'm sure it's being cared for by people who are far more responsible and thoughtful of a puppies needs.I just pray this poor little pup ends up in a home where it'll be loved and respected and it's new owners will offer guidance and discipline as well as supervision.
Thanx for posting the number but you should have posted the number for the states attorneys office instead.No matter.I'll call the number you posted to get it so I can demand the dogs owners be charged to the fullest extent of the law.It's too bad that ignorance is'nt a crime.
2006-12-15 10:34:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Animal of any type or breed should ALWAYS be supervised when around Infants and Children. I have owned Cats, Dogs, Horses, Birds, Chickens almost anything you can think of in my 32 years growing up. I have seen all types of animals turn on humans and the majority of the time it is due to some type of negligents, but you also have those animals that do not respect humans. Any puppy of any breed will chew wen they grow new teeth just like your own human baby would. The only difference is a dog will chew almost anything in site even a helpless baby. People who raise Pit Bulls should be responsable. Would you leave your baby or child along out side with a horse? NO! You would not so why would you leave a Child alone with any dog. Animals of all types are what they are and responsability should be taken by the human to make sure things like this don't happen. It is also normal for humans to want to destroy what hurts us. When the Aligtors ate the people? We kill the Aligators? You swim in the ocean and you gonna get eaten by a shark. People forget that dogs and cats are animals and think they should not have preditorial behaviors! People these behaviors are normal and no amount of selective breeding will remove it!!!!
2006-12-15 06:43:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am sorry to say all humans are to blame. We all know pits are aggressive dogs. Its their nature. Most is over breeding, which takes us back to humans. No one under any circumstance should leave a child alone with any dog or puppy. For both the dogs and the humans sake. When will people learn? By the looks of things of late they won't. Lets just keep playing the blame game. I had a friend who treats her dogs like they were human. She is very kind a loving and giving. She had a mix breed
who went after her grand kids for no reason. I MEAN NO REASON. Thank God she had him on a leash or one of them would have ended up in a emergency room for bites at best.
She loved that dog more than she loves most humans and had him put to sleep. It hurt her so bad words can not explain but she knew it would happen again and maybe next time not be so lucky. Strange thing is the other pups by the same mom also were aggressive and had to be put to sleep. Its the breed its been ruined.
2006-12-15 06:42:02 · answer #6 · answered by ascendent2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like Emmit said, there are far too many things about this story that are unsettling and just plain wrong: a month old baby in a carrier on the floor, unsupervised with a dog very nearby, a set of parents who slept through the "gnawing" and a 6 week old puppy away from it's mother, are but a few things that make me sick to my stomach.
The puppy, however, is under quarantine because that's usually the law: when you bite, you're either in 10 day rabies quarantine or you're euthanized and tested for rabies. I suspect a court or a town select board will determine the puppy's fate, not the shelter where the puppy is housed.
2006-12-15 06:11:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely NOT!! The dog is just a baby too. Babies chew, nurse. Why so much emphasis on the fact that the puppy is of the Pit Bull breed? Any puppy would be capable of doing this. Puppies have to be supervised, as do baby humans.....and obviously, some adults as well. I just hope this poor puppy is not expected to pay for this with its life. And as for the parents.......I think they aren't really sharp razors. This didn't happen because of intent or purpose, they just don't think. I think it should really be classified as an accident.........even though this child will now be crippled for life.
2006-12-16 05:32:34 · answer #8 · answered by Gingerbread man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OH - MY - GOD!!!!!!!!!!! That is horrible!!!
Howver, the PARENTS are the ones responsible, NOT that poor puppy! Why in the hell did they leave the puppy alone around a newborn baby anyway? Puppies chew and that puppy did NOT know he was hurting that baby. He seen something to chew on which is in it's nature and it chewed. It did NOT deliberately attack that baby! That is ridiculous. 6 week old puppy and they are quarantining it?? I am so sick of hearing people say that pitbulls are bad. THERE ARE NO BAD BREEDS, JUST BAD UPBRINGING!!!
2006-12-15 06:29:48 · answer #9 · answered by MasLoozinIt76 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this was an issue with the parents not the poor dog, he was probably hunger/bored/I could name a million reasons why he chewed, the baby just happened to probably be the only thing in the room. And don't you think that if a dog was chewing on a babies toes for the amount of time that this would have taken to chew a babies toes off that the baby would have made some kind of noise!!!
2006-12-15 06:34:14 · answer #10 · answered by Kelly J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋