There was a news report recently of a dog attack in a city near mine where a family pet bit and killed a 7 day old baby. At first I was sure there must be extenuating circumstances, that the family must have been abusing the dog or something…so I looked up why a dog would attack a newborn, expecting something along those lines. But what I found out just…traumatized me completely.

What do you MEAN dogs see newborns as prey? What do you M E A N an 7 day old sleeping activates their hunting instincts? I’ve lived my whole life with dogs, have seen people raise children with dogs, and have never once heard that they are absolutely prone to attack unprovoked, even if they love you. Sometimes they attack your baby BECAUSE they love you, because they’re jealous of the stolen attention.

How is this not common knowledge? I work in childcare and I’m constantly seeing all these safety tips for babies like cutting up grapes or putting them in mittens so they don’t scratch themselves, but nobody sees it as a problem that the animal in their house may see their baby crying and assume it’s time to do the killing blow?

I was thinking about getting a dog, but never again. Even if I never have kids, the fact that a dog could just decide to maul a 7 day old newborn in its sleep is too much for me. I feel so bad for that family, that’s a fucking nightmare.

Literally cannot believe the half wits that exist in this world. This happened in a town near me recently. The dog had previously attacked people and was trying to attack a pregnant woman when it turned on the owner and ripped her arm off. The beast took 7 shots from police to stop it. And the owner still has the audacity to say she wish she could have saved it.

No.

Dogs like this do not deserve to live, they are dangerous and are clearly capable of killing people.

The moment her dad turned his back..

This shows the dangers of leaving children with dogs...

I can’t go into much detail due to a court battle / police involvement but my child was very horrifically and brutally attacked by a dog. We were innocently on a walk, one we did all the time when a dog (with a history of aggression but no attack - evidenced through social media posts!) attacked after escaping from its home. Suffice it to say, without detail, my child has life changing injuries and almost died. We’re talking emergency surgeries, helicopter, transfusions. We all witnessed it, me as her mother her father and her siblings.

Why is there no law in the UK that requires dogs to require training?! To pass yearly behavioural checks? I will be creating one in their name once this horrific court process is over but HOW? I want to do it so all dogs must pass yearly behavioural checks if they wish to be insured but then people will just not insure their dogs etc. I have to do something.

Last night my coworker came in to do her shift, puffy eyed, sniffling, the whole way over. I asked her whats up she tells me the night before her pitbull had to be put down bc he escaped through the front door and, word for word, “ran up to play with a kid because he was excited, latched onto his shirt and in the process barely scraped a bit of the boys skin”. The boys mother went crazy, called the cops, the dog got put down as a result. Ofc I said thats terrible yada yada, but I didnt say that I felt no compassion towards that pit, I have seen many dogs escape and wander around and find children playing, completely ignoring them. This pitbulls first instinct was to run towards a child, latch onto him (probably did more damage than my coworker would say) and basically get the whole neighborhood involved trying to pry this mutant off a boy. Im not a fan of dogs in the first place, but there is a special place in hell for those baby maulers and this story further proves this breed is naturally born aggressive imo (he was bought as a pup, my coworker is very sweet, lives with her sister, so no I dont believe its ‘learned from bad owners’)

Just heartbreaking

A friend's dog bit my four years old on the face last night and I just need to vent. This dog is not a nice dog and very skittish around people. We are SO lucky that my daughter didn't lose an eye. The little nip mark is on her eyebrow. I just don't like dogs. I really dont. Luckily my kid is okay. This friend also has a 2 year old and 4 year old children of her own. I really hope the dogs behavior doesn't escalate. I've read that it can. I truly do think that this was just a "warning" because the dog is a labrador and could have easily hurt my daughter worse if it really wanted to. Aren't labs supposed to be friendly and good with kids?! What happened in this dogs life to make it so skittish? I think shes had this dog since it was a puppy...

Of course the monsters were put down. Someone REALLY left a fucking comment that said “imagine losing both your dogs at once 😭” NO MENTION of the HUMAN CHILD that those dogs KILLED!!

The poor innocent child died a painful death and was terrified in his last moments. Absolutely disturbing. The parents probably couldn’t even say goodbye because he was probably torn apart. It turns my stomach to even think about it.

Someone else commented “sucks for the dogs they were just trying to defend their home.” ALL THE 6 YEAR OLD DID WAS WALK INTO A GARAGE BEHIND HIS BABYSITTER.

Some people even blamed the kid!!! One comment said “sounds like he opened a door he was told not to.” If a SMALL CHILD walking into a room provoked those fuckers to KILL HIM they have to have a past bite history. They should’ve been put down long ago. Can’t believe people hold the life of vicious stupid dogs over the life of a sentient innocent HUMAN child. My blood boils.

I was at the park today when I heard a woman scream at the top of her lungs. I went over to see what happened. She was bleeding profusely…from her face. From her arm. And worse yet…from her neck. Her boyfriend was on the ground holding a giant pitbull down. He’s coddling the dog as she’s bleeding and screaming.

I asked her if she was okay. She begged me to call animal control or 911. I told her I would. The man starts yelling at me telling me not to. I didn’t know what to do. I was scared. Her wounds were so bad. I was worried she might be in a bad situation with him. Then, this younger woman (their daughter maybe?) shows up and gets in my face. Tells me she will kick my ass if I called animal control or 911. That’s when I did snap back. I said that dog would kill someone and I definitely would call 911. Not my best move but I snapped. I snapped because these idiots cared more about the dog than this woman who was bleeding out. They didn’t care about her.

I ran off to my car and called 911. It’s become this whole ordeal. There’s a police report. I’ve spoken to officers.

I don’t know what I got myself into. I don’t know if I did the right thing. I felt so bothered because no one cared about her. I don’t know if I helped or made things worse for her.

If you all remember, about two years ago, I pulled my kid out of the daycare center immediately as the center director started bringing her Cane Corso in as the new daycare pet. I know, I know...completely astounding stupidity on her part. I, at the time, had called the licensing and health boards to be told basically that she's allowed to do so and if I don't like it, leave. So I did, paying double at our towns other facility. Always wondered if I was a bit over the top in my reaction, but I learned today the center and director are being sued for 25k by the parents of a child in her care that was attacked by the dog, requiring stitches and medical attention. None of this has made it mainstream or well known in our town or local papers, media, etc. I heard from my sister today and verified by finding the court case.

Glad I made the right call, even if it was significantly more expensive to put him in a dogfree center. Figured I'd update all of you that had read my initial post on this

Edit: I will reach out to PA with my experience, although I don't know that it will do any good, but I suppose it can't do any harm. May send link to court case to editor of newspaper as well, so they can make their own jusgement call on it. May also include all the failed inspections she's had. I live in a poorer, mostly uneducated country suburb, so...you know, most people here are rabidly obsessed with dogs and pits and although maybe not familiar with Cane Corsos, will probably take the dogs side. Not really wanting to be front and center on the social media side of that circus. We had an Amazon delivery truck driver killed about a year ago out here by dogs, and the amount of asshats defending the dogs was shocking. Although, the town knows where I stand since the city council debate on lifting BSL was streamed live on FB and I was fighting to keep it in place. I even suggested it be expanded to include Cane Corsos...whudda thunk one would attack a kid?...oh, wait....

Five years ago, I was attacked by a family member’s two pit bulls. I was horribly mauled and had to be LifeFlighted to a trauma center. I almost lost my right arm (the trauma surgeon told my brother later that the only reason they didn’t amputate it was because they thought I was going to die and didn’t want to go through all the trouble). I had massive injuries to both arms, both legs, stomach, and chest. I spent over two months in the hospital and have had 30 surgeries and skin grafts to repair the damage those dogs did. My medical bills are over $2 million (thank God for insurance!). This happened at my son’s house so he saw the carnage first hand.

Needless to say, I get very anxious around ALL dogs now, especially pit bulls. So about a year ago, my son took in a stray pit bull with the intention of finding it a home. Well, you guessed it - he still has it. Every time I go to his house, he puts it in another room. But, recently he had a party and I noticed the dog was out walking around. My heart skipped a couple of beats and I looked at my son like WTH? And he said, “Mom, she’s gonna stay out. You need to get over it and deal with it.” I was just stunned. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. It was the most hurtful thing anyone has ever said to me. I couldn’t even say anything. I just put my drink down and went home. He didn’t even notice.

Sorry to ramble. I just needed to vent.

UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who showed such awesome support to me! It’s overwhelming! In a good way! I can’t cut my son out of my life - he’s still my son and I love him. Plus he is the dad to my two grandkids, who I can’t live without. But I did have a heart-to-heart talk with him and I let him know exactly how I felt. He apologized profusely, there were lots of tears, blah blah blah. I hope things will improve from here. That being said, there’s always that saying: “People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.” I don’t think I’ll ever forget how he made me feel that night at his party. 💔😢

I’m a Quadriplegic, can’t move a thing below the neck. I was taken out for a walk by my caretaker and a golden retriever owner let her dog just jump up on my wheelchair and start licking my face. If I had use of my arms I wouldn’t care since I could move my head but I can’t even move so the dog just kept licking me and instead my mount too!!! When the owner noticed she laughed and let it happen longer and I’m like “get the dog off me!!!” But everytime I tried to speak the dog tongue went in my mouth

Posted in my city's social media page.

"DOG Attack.. Please watch out for 5 loose Akitas on the El Cajon Trail. My DIL two dogs got attacked this morning about 9:30 AM of Eureka while she was walking the baby. She had to leave the stroller and run into the street to save them. Multiple people stopped their car (including a City Worker) and did not get out to help, just honked. Thank you to Joan and the other walker who helped them. Animal Control and the Sheriff was called, and they are on the lookout for the dogs who ran off. They had collars but no tags. She had to take her dogs to the vet for treatment; they had puncture wounds on their necks. Please be careful."

Fur mommy first and foremost. FFS. Why do you expect people to jump out of their cars to get in the middle of a dog fight with 5 loose Akitas? Stop calling these animals your family members. This is their world, the dog world, and dogs will fight. Y'all brought them into society, and this is what happens. Why would you risk your baby's life and your life and possibly leave your baby without a mother for your 2 mutts?

No, m'am, your DIL didn't "have to leave the stroller." She made that choice.

My 8 year old daughter got attacked by one of our neighbor's dogs today. They have 4 big dogs including a pit. I'm not sure what breed the one is that attacked her today. I didn't see it happen but this is the story I was told (by my mom who saw it and chased down the dog, as well as my daughter and her friend): My daughter was walking down the sidewalk with her friend in front of our house and it started chasing them, knocked her down, and bit her on the ankle and then on the back of her calf. Luckily it's very minor- it baaarely broke the skin on one part. I'm honestly livid though- I feel like we just got lucky this time and it's only a matter of time until someone gets hurt much worse. There are lots of kids in this area and these dogs are awful- so loud, always fighting. They growl at us menacingly every time we go outside and they're not always tied up. Their owners are on drugs and the police are over there all the time, so I don't exactly feel confident that they are "responsible" pet owners.

What do I do?? You can barely even see her injuries so I hesitate to take her to the ER. My dad thinks I shouldn't report it because he's afraid they might retaliate. These neighbors are always screaming and cursing at each other/at the dogs and I'm scared of them too. But I'm also afraid of the dogs!! And really wish they could just disappear :( I just want for my kids to be able to play in our own yard or walk to their friend's house without being afraid they might get mauled to death.

UPDATE: I took my girl to Urgent Care and filed a police report with Animal Control. I am definitely still nervous about my neighbors retaliating (they are NOT stable people) but I know that they are the ones in the wrong here- not me, and certainly not my innocent little girl.