[arista]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

She was told the dog was fine with kids and that was a lie.

Yes Police need to deal with that.

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Livia

I think rescue dogs are bearing the brunt of this. The bottom line for me is that you should never, ever leave a young child alone with a dog. Any dog. Ever.

That's true. Dogs can be unpredictable.

[Livia]

No dog is EVER fine with kids. I have a niece who's four. She freaks my cat out because she's too loud and too fast, and I imagine it'd have the same effect on a dog. She's not naughty, she four. Being fast, loud and unpredicatble is her job.

Dogs are rescued for a variety of reasons, not always because it's aggressive, but a lot of the time because people are too stupid, cruel and/or feckless to cope with an animal.

I am genuinely sorry for the parents' loss... but they have to accept leaving a tiny child with a massive dog was a mistake that's going to live with them forever.

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by Livia

No dog is EVER fine with kids. I have a niece who's four. She freaks my cat out because she's too loud and too fast, and I imagine it'd have the same effect on a dog. She's not naughty, she four. Being fast, loud and unpredicatble is her job.

Dogs are rescued for a variety of reasons, not always because it's aggressive, but a lot of the time because people are too stupid, cruel and/or feckless to cope with an animal.

I am genuinely sorry for the parents' loss... but they have to accept leaving a tiny child with a massive dog was a mistake that's going to live with them forever.

I agree. If i had small children i wouldn't keep any pets.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

I agree. If i had small children i wouldn't keep any pets.

I don't think you have to go that far, pets can equally be beneficial and wonderful for kids, it's just about being sensible and not leaving young children alone with them

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I don't think you have to go that far, pets can equally be beneficial and wonderful for kids, it's just about being sensible and not leaving young children alone with them

Yes,that's so true,they teach kids lots of things and mainly how to care and the animals love the kids as much as the kids love them.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Livia

No dog is EVER fine with kids. I have a niece who's four. She freaks my cat out because she's too loud and too fast, and I imagine it'd have the same effect on a dog. She's not naughty, she four. Being fast, loud and unpredicatble is her job.

Dogs are rescued for a variety of reasons, not always because it's aggressive, but a lot of the time because people are too stupid, cruel and/or feckless to cope with an animal.

I am genuinely sorry for the parents' loss... but they have to accept leaving a tiny child with a massive dog was a mistake that's going to live with them forever.

I don't think she was left on her own though, from what I read (if true and the Mum must have been around to see the attack as she stabbed the dog to death), Lexy was in her Mums bed and her Mum was laying with her when the dog wandered in and jumped on her. Bottom line here the dog was at least 6 and a stray so nothing was known of its history.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

I don't think she was left on her own though, from what I read (if true and the Mum must have been around to see the attack as she stabbed the dog to death), Lexy was in her Mums bed and her Mum was laying with her when the dog wandered in and jumped on her. Bottom line here the dog was at least 6 and a stray so nothing was known of its history.

Yeah, which is why A - a rescue centre should have known better than to advise the mother that he was good with kids (how on earth could they know that) and B - The mother should not have gotten a dog of that size and of that age when she had a young child

Having said all that I sympathize with her and I'm sure there won't be a single day that goes by when she doesn't regret her decision to get that dog and blame herself

[Tom4784]

It's the people in charge of the Dog Rescue that are to blame, allowing fully grown and potentially psychologically fragile dogs to be adopted by young families is reckless and stupid.

I also disagree that dogs and children shouldn't mix, I've never not had a dog in my life and I've never had problems, I've known plenty of people who are the same. A dog that is raised in a loving and responsible home will not harm anyone. There is no such thing as a bad dog, only bad owners and this dog's previous owners obviously left it in an unbalanced state.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

It's the people in charge of the Dog Rescue that are to blame, allowing fully grown and potentially psychologically fragile dogs to be adopted by young families is reckless and stupid.

I also disagree that dogs and children shouldn't mix, I've never not had a dog in my life and I've never had problems, I've known plenty of people who are the same. A dog that is raised in a loving and responsible home will not harm anyone. There is no such thing as a bad dog, only bad owners and this dog's previous owners obviously left it in an unbalanced state.

Yeah, I do agree with that, my son in particular loves our dogs so much and dogs in the vast majority of cases are beneficial rather than harmful to kids