Quote Originally Posted by EWO View Post
I am not a dog bite expert by any means but I do believe the majority of the time a lot of the blame belongs to the one being bit. But I do understand that is nothing to hang one's hat on when the bite actually occurs. We have a deep family divide right now over a dog bite from a fox hound. My brother-in-laws grandchild is a holy terror. He was walking the farm with his grandma at a family gathering. I bet he hit ten dogs with a stick. Grandma offers no correction. Mom offers no correction. Later that day he hems one up against the barn and draws the stick back and the Grandma picks him up but the dog snags her on the way. All family hell breaks loose. Barely broke the skin but it was a dog bite nonetheless. The dog was immediately to blame. I didn't see it that way and made the horrible mistake of saying 'sometimes you get what you ask for'. I know this is an isolated incident and not exactly on bulldog topic, but my point would be, - Just imagine how bad it gets if this fox hound was a bulldog? The situation gets amplified ten fold based on media sensationalism. As bad as it sounds I was glad it happened at his house instead of mine.
But, regardless of how it happens or why it happens when a dog bite happens it is the usually the fault of the 'dog'. Add in the term pitbull dog and it can get off the charts in a quick minute. The care and caution is warranted with all dogs, especially the little ones, but I think when it involves these dogs the caution has to be amped up as equal to the reaction/sensationalism that results in the end. EWO
I don't know if the situation would be amplified ten fold because of the media more so over the difference in destruction between a fox hound and a bulldog. Had it been a bulldog, that childs life would probably never be the same. There is a lot of dead space between a fox hound barely breaking the skin in a cur snap out of fear and a bulldog about to take hold on a little boy with a stick. That's not really sensationalism. These dogs are capable of way more destruction in a lot less time. A few seconds can have the rest of your life full of regrets and it wont matter who was at fault. General rule here is kids only play with the house dog and pups. Children, like dogs lack the ability of reasoning. I know when I was a little boy I didn't have the ability to foresee myself being a 50 year old man with a prosthetic arm because of something I did when I was 5 yrs old. That's the separation between juvenile and adult and in a case with a child and a dog the adult has to be the one to blame and ultimately responsible for both his child and dogs actions.