Who's to blame? - the dog or the child?

tigwig | 10:42 Thu 28th Oct 2010 | Animals & Nature

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My sister in law has a rottweiller (sorry spelling) and yesterday it bit her 8yr old daughter very badly on the cheek resulting in her needing 16 stitches. She is not very good with animals I have to say and has apparently being playing with the dog for over an hour before it had had enough and flipped. I personally feel that these kind of dogs have the nature to 'turn' at anytime and would never 100% trust them around a child but on the otherhand I know that most dogs are fine until they are pestered by kids. So mum felt she should have the dog put down but they haven't as the child begged her not to! What do other's think? What if the dog does it again? Are they completely safe with kids?

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Thank you for the opinions, I agree with the majority of you. My niece has now admitted that she had hold of the dog's face and was kissing and cuddling it non stop for 1hr 15 mins before it obviously got p*ssed off and snapped at her. I now realise that of course it wasn't the dogs fault at all, I suppose I am quite naive about them and don't really know much about the breed apart from the bad reputation they have. They are keeping the dog anyway and the child is very very subdued and still upset about what happened, hopefully she has learnt her lesson.

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NoMercy

Doc... what happened to the 3-legged dog abandoned by your daughter's neighbour?

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NoMercy

Aww, thanks for that, Doc. I've often wondered how the poor little mite was getting on.

Thank Puss for me. x

pastafreak

oddly enough-I was bitten for the same reason by my pet Beagle when I was about 9 or 10....I too was squeezing his nose,I carried on and eventually he snapped. Only got my fingers...and it did not scare me off dogs.
That's really why children should always be supervised when with pets..even a cat could do some nasty damage if pushed enough.