My one-year old son was bit by a pit bull last night

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I hope the bite isn't serious, and your child makes a speedy recovery. Sounds pretty bad to visualise.

I don't know why I'd ever keep a pet that could potentially harm you (cats or dogs) and then let a young child near it in the same house. No matter how much they're conditioned to be domesticated, they're still carnivores who came from the wild. If your relatives are adamant about keeping the dog inside, I'd just not go there with a kid.
 
I feel so sorry for the kid, I mean, waiting to get urgent treatment for whatever reason must suck. Does the dog has all the vaccines in order? Find out and get it put down.
 
Welcome to Gaf dude, where whenever possible people will interpret the statement as racist as possible. God help you if you have any white sheets in the house on top of that.

And yes, best thing to do when upset is do go on a forum and claim that basically that a certain breed of dog shouldn't be around. But hey, as long as it's not people, that's cool!
 
I don't care how friendly a dog is. Around kids I can't take that risk.

Our dog gets very uncomfortable around small children so they and her don't mix unless we can hold her.
 
Vito said:
Welcome to Gaf dude, where whenever possible people will interpret the statement as racist as possible. God help you if you have any white sheets in the house on top of that.

And yes, best thing to do when upset is do go on a forum and claim that basically that a certain breed of dog shouldn't be around. But hey, as long as it's not people, that's cool!
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Yep, this thread is very painful to read, and for all the wrong reasons.
 
Sanjuro said:
Sounds like you have some trashy family members. It's always been common sense to put the animal down after an incident.
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Somehow it doesn't surprise me that you're arguing this, but at some points, putting someone's pet down that they likely have a strong bond with isn't the best idea with family if it would be a forced thing.
 
Wazzy said:
Where did I say they can't? This is a reason why children should be kept away from dogs. If you're going to allow them to be within the same space, you need to make sure your child knows how to handle them properly, watch how the dog reacts AND know when to seperate them. Most dogs will show signs of discomfort if they don't want the child around them.
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you did, inadvertently.

children not knowing how to handle a dog isnt the problem, the problem is that a dog can bite a child, trained or not. perfectly handled, or not. which many people ignore. small kids cant take.much of an attack from animals, thats reason.enough to.keep.them away, rather than their inability to meld.with the dog.
 
commedieu said:
you did, inadvertently.

children not knowing how to handle a dog isnt the problem, the problem is that a dog can bite a child, trained or not. perfectly handled, or not. which many people ignore. small kids cant take.much of an attack from animals, thats reason.enough to.keep.them away, rather than their inability to meld.with the dog.
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That's the real problem
 
Sad story, if a true one. Yet if I had a kid I wouldnt dangle it over a shark tank.
What Im saying is Im not sure how a responsible parent's baby is put in a position where it can be bit by a pitbull.
 
Any dog can snap and try to destroy things, and even a pit bull under the right owner can probably be the nicest dog on Earth, but people suspect that pit bulls are a just plain "bad" breed of dog because they're the successful product of a controlled breeding program designed to create monsters. Who the hell thought that made them a good idea to keep as house pets?

The thing is, most owners are likely buying them to pull double duty as both guard dogs and house pets. They're currently the perceived ideal guard dog, and they're probably almost all at least partially being trained and treated as guard dogs, but their owners are lying about that (perhaps to themselves even) and telling everyone that they got a cute widdle puppy. If you want a safe house pet, you have to train it exclusively as a house pet, but that's not why anyone wants a pit bull. The want the animal that will bite an intruder, lock it's jaws, and not let go until the police arrive, no matter how much you punch the dog in the head.

You can't leave loaded weapons lying around the house and then wonder what happened when someone gets shot.
 
Cat Party said:
The fucking dog mauling defense force has shown up. This board has everything.
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Because dogs are fully reasonable beings in total control of their actions. Damn entities of evil. I bet they have a conspiracy to attack defenseless kids unsupervised by their relatives.

Project on the dog, not on your mistake, sure.

If it was a giraffe in a zoo, would you wanna kill all giraffes too?
 
You should call animal control and have them put it down.

Dogs are great but this one is clearly dangerous.

We've always had big dogs (german shepherds, a rottweiler, a saint bernard, a few big mutts ) in the family, always around toddlers and babies and they were really gentle and extremely careful around them.
It's never been an issue

A dog who bites a baby isn't normal and should be put down.
 
Gonna skip page 2 as it's probably just arguments of if the dog should be put down or not, but fuck that, did the OP take his kid to the hospital after? If not then he's just as stupid as the dog owners.

Secondly, the dog should be put down. It could do it again but much worse.
 
MarkMclovin said:
Gonna skip page 2 as it's probably just arguments of if the dog should be put down or not, but fuck that, did the OP take his kid to the hospital after? If not then he's just as stupid as the dog owners.

Secondly, the dog should be put down. It could do it again but much worse.
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"I'm going to skip that part and then add to that argument."

Yes, the kid is fine.
 
In-laws are shitty owners, don't socialize the mutt and don't chain and or separate the dog from small children. People still blame the breed. Ugh.
 
SneakyStephan said:
You should call animal control and have them put it down.

Dogs are great but this one is clearly dangerous.

We've always had big dogs (german shepherds, a rottweiler, a saint bernard, a few big mutts ) in the family, always around toddlers and babies and they were really gentle and extremely careful around them.
It's never been an issue

A dog who bites a baby isn't normal and should be put down.
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I don't get all this one strike mentality. The dog can still change. Dogs who aren't raised around babies tend to be scared of them. One of my dogs used to run away from anything he didn't recognize.(guitars, toys, even family members with hoodies and new borns). This lasted for months and isn't considered "normal" either, but we weren't gonna put him down or give him away. Everydog is going to react differently depending on how they were raised.
I feel bad for that dog. The only chance it has is for the owners to make a change. Otherwise, the op should call to have him put down.
 
wsoxfan1214 said:
People will always blame the easy target in a bad situation.
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I don't even get it. If it was any fucking dog it wouldn't matter. Shitty owners who don't socialize dogs and keep them around small children despite the odds are just that: shit. A dog that hasn't been trained to deal with being poked at and climbed on will snap, regardless of breed. But oh ho, here come the (non) pitt experts to explain away how this is a uniquely pittbull issue.
 
Fucking dog man. Just by reading your post OP i feel angry and I want to kill that stupid dog. People defending dogs are crazy. Don't blame the dog blame the owner... it's a fucking bullshit.
 
Picobrain said:
Fucking dog man. Just by reading your post OP i feel angry and I want to kill that stupid dog. People defending dogs are crazy. Don't blame the dog blame the owner... it's a fucking bullshit.
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It's not bullshit. If you don't properly socialize your fucking dog it's your fucking fault. End of fucking story.
 
I have a pitbull, got it because it was left to me by someone who just took off.
I love that dog but I keep a very tight hold on the leash when we are walking. She likes people but I do not let her run free in the neighborhood. Too much risk.
Kids make both my dogs ( I have a small mixed breed as well) nervous. They are not near any kids at all at anytime. I tell the neighbors that my dogs are not to be trusted around kids.

OP please let an acute care center or MD look at the wounds because you have to worry about cellulitis (infection of the tissue under the skin). They may want to give 5 days of an oral antibiotic just for prevention.
 
Picobrain said:
Fucking dog man. Just by reading your post OP i feel angry and I want to kill that stupid dog. People defending dogs are crazy. Don't blame the dog blame the owner... it's a fucking bullshit.
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Do you stop to read what you post and consider it logically or do you just knee-jerk react to every emotional impulse that comes across your mind?
 
verbum said:
I have a pitbull, got it because it was left to me by someone who just took off.
I love that dog but I keep a very tight hold on the leash when we are walking. She likes people but I do not let her run free in the neighborhood. Too much risk.
Kids make both my dogs ( I have a small mixed breed as well) nervous. They are not near any kids at all at anytime. I tell the neighbors that my dogs are not to be trusted around kids.

OP please let an acute care center or MD look at the wounds because you have to worry about cellulitis (infection of the tissue under the skin). They may want to give 5 days of an oral antibiotic just for prevention.
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You're a responsible owner. Thank you for knowing your dog's limits and acting accordingly.
 
24FrameDaVinci said:
I'm sorry about your son, but this is not the dog's fault. Sorry. No breed would just go up to a small child and take a bite out of their skull unless provoked somehow. I've seen how small children act around dogs before, and honestly it's a miracle more aren't bitten.

Also, please tell me why a one year old boy was on the floor with a dog, that wasn't your own, nearby?
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And didn't your boy's head look all soft and chewy? Wasn't he asking for it?
 
Jeff-DSA said:
But they're so sweet. It's the owners not the dogs. Stories about them are just all part of media bias.

Screw this breed. It happened over at my father-in-law's house last night down in California. I'm at home in Utah, and my wife called to let me know. The dog was totally unprovoked. It just bit my kid and left a puncture in his skull on the top of his head and a puncture near his eye. Both punctures have been bleeding off and on still throughout today.

I'd put the dog down, but they're not going to. Good thing I'm here though, because I would have slit the piece of trash dog's throat. I'm so pissed off right now I can barely thing straight, but if I do have one clear thought, it's that these dogs are unnecessary and shouldn't be around. This is the third time in my life now that someone close to me has been injured by an unprovoked attack by a pit bull that was hailed as being so sweet and loving right up until the moment they attacked.

This could have been much worse, but luckily people were able to intervene. With my wife in the room I don't know how that dog survived, but somehow she refrained from tearing it to pieces. Maybe the blood pouring down our kid's face distracted her. That was probably the reason.
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I love dogs and had dogs all my life but pit bulls are not stable creatures and I don't understand why any sane person would want one. Sorry for your ordeal mate, and hope your kid has a speedy recovery without any lasting effects.
 
wsoxfan1214 said:
Somehow it doesn't surprise me that you're arguing this, but at some points, putting someone's pet down that they likely have a strong bond with isn't the best idea with family if it would be a forced thing.
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Dog's a vicious beast that attacked a baby, fuck the family if they won't handle that situation. They shouldn't have gotten a dog if they can't handle the complications that may come from it.
 
terrene said:
If, say, there were a trend of domesticating wild African animals and giraffes counted for the vast majority of deaths arising from domesticated African animal attacks, I'd argue that maybe people shouldn't be allowed to have giraffes as pets, which is different from killing them.
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Care to field my post now or are you planning on selectively replying?

HovaHovito said:
What does that accomplish?
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A stupid bloodlust based on the assumptions that a pet can fully understand what it was doing and should have known the infant was no threat to it.
 
Slate Soda said:
...No, not quite.

If a dog bit some kid's skull, I wouldn't tell his parent "Aww!"

The kid didn't just trip and scrape his knee on the pavement. A dog just bit his fucking skull. Seems to me that deserves a stronger reaction than "aww".
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Just shut up already.

Did the OP end up taking his son to the hospital?
 
SneakyStephan said:
You should call animal control and have them put it down.

Dogs are great but this one is clearly dangerous.

We've always had big dogs (german shepherds, a rottweiler, a saint bernard, a few big mutts ) in the family, always around toddlers and babies and they were really gentle and extremely careful around them.
It's never been an issue

A dog who bites a baby isn't normal and should be put down.
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ignorance, stupidity, or both?

1) why would an infant be anywhere near an animal, let alone within its striking distance?

2) no person can predict another species' behaviour perfectly. that is why research and fields of studies exist, to further the understanding of other species and put it in language that humans can understand.
 
wsoxfan1214 said:
Care to field my post now or are you planning on selectively replying?
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I'm selectively replying to posts that at least make a statement that has to do with something, instead of dropping a steaming turd of a non-sequitur on the floor and whining for attention. Whatever point you think you're making regarding people who want vicious animals taken out of human society, one thing they are not doing is anthropomorphizing said animals. You don't have to project human qualities onto a dangerous thing to want it taken out of proximity to vulnerable human beings -- in fact, the conclusion that one MUST be doing that makes no fucking sense. Who cares if it's human? Just get it the fuck out of here.
 
Fiction said:
This. Dog bites aren't anything to be fucking around with, most of the damage is under the surface, and has a high risk of infection.


Also, bites can and will happen with any dog that isn't properly trained and cared for. The breed is no different from any other dog.
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Right, my Golden Retriever is just as likely to attack as a Pit Bull? Bullshit!
 
terrene said:
I'm selectively replying to posts that at least make a statement that has to do with something, instead of dropping a steaming turd of a non-sequitur on the floor and whining for attention. Whatever point you think you're making regarding people who want vicious animals taken out of human society, one thing they are not doing is anthropomorphizing said animals. You don't have to project human qualities onto a dangerous thing to want it taken out of proximity to vulnerable human beings -- in fact, the conclusion that one MUST be doing that makes no fucking sense. Who cares if it's human? Just get it the fuck out of here.
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If the dog thought the infant was a threat to it, of course the thing will fucking bite. Do you really expect a dog to have the mental capacity to consider carefully whether or not the kid was a threat to it?

No, it'll act on its first instinct. Clearly, it felt threatened. Not all pitbulls are going to react like that. Any breed could do exactly what this one did. It isn't even necessarily exclusive to dogs.
 
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