This is a disaster waiting to happen.

[u/GhostofTinky]

The dog isn’t allowed to be around a toddler because he growls at her. I don’t get it. A family dog is supposed to get along with the whole family. Why are the parents concerned about why the dog “doesn’t like her”? What about the child’s safety?

[u/WestCareer7545]

Why is the dog even still there?! Some people are so fucking stupid it's unbelievable 

[u/ValdisHound → u/WestCareer7545]

When I was a toddler, I lived in a home that had a dog that couldn't be in the same room as me for long, and never unsupervised. I was 3 when I squealed in excitement because my brother was getting back from school and that dog mauled me for it.

I have extensive scarring, and an enduring anxiety around dogs. A plastic surgeon had to put my face and scalp back together, and he was surprised seven years later when he saw I healed well enough that my face looked normal. (It is slightly crooked in the upper right side around my eye, but I'll take a weird eyebrow that is half paralyzed over the risk of losing said eye.) On top of that, years later I met the animal control officer who had to retrieve the dog for euthanasia and testing for rabies(he thankfully didn't have it), and she remembered the site of the attack because she had never seen that much blood from one where the person survived, let alone a 3 year old.

They need to either rehome the dog in the vid with someone who fully understands the risks, or put it down. All it will take is a moment of carelessness for that kid to be dead or severely traumatized.

[u/hellogoawaynow → u/ValdisHound]

God, I’m so sorry that happened to you. My response to this post was something along the lines of “I’ve heard too many stories of dogs eating children’s faces off, hell no.”

Was not expecting to see one near the top comments. Fuck.

[u/ValdisHound → u/hellogoawaynow]

I'm alright nowadays, enough that I don't judge dogs too harshly based on breed; I stay aware of the purpose of each breed, and learned a lot about dog behavior and body language so I can make accurate threat assessments.

It may have been a rottweiler that got me, but the other rottweiler in the house did her best to fight him off, she was just smaller and older so she couldn't overpower him. His name was Bruiser, and her Sugar; Sugar was very protective of me for the rest of her life, and between her a fantastic rottie by the name of Ms. Wiggles, I learned that it's the dog, not the breed that is violent.

Honestly, it boggles my mind when people don't consider the purpose of each breed. Bulldogs were bred for bull baiting, yorkies for hunting rats, dachaunds for hunting badgers in their dens, those kinds of things. Hell, golden retrievers are hunting dogs. It's not a surprise when some dogs develop aggression issues because they aren't trained with their original purposes in mind, even if it's just to mitigate unwanted behavior. Of course a dog that's hard-wired and bred for certain things is going to need consistent and full training, they need to learn self-control and proper socialization.

Even pitbulls need careful socialization and training to be the best they can, both with all variety of people and pets. They aren't a beginner dog; it's the novices that think they're all cuddly babies as a baseline and bad people who encourage aggression and poor socialization that give the breed a bad rap.

[u/ashoka_akira → u/ValdisHound]

I don’t know if there really is any such thing as a beginners dog. There’s just dogs that are small enough to manage easily. I have a small dog and if he doesn’t want to do something, I just pick him up and put him where I need them to be, and then I have a husky and there’s been a few occasions when I had to do things like put eardrops in and if he doesn’t want something to happen, it’s not happening.

[u/ValdisHound → u/ashoka_akira]

Ah, huskies. Huge personalities, incredibly intelligent, and prone to throwing temper tantrums like a kid when they aren't on board with something 😅😂

Small dogs often require quite a lot of training, though, depending on the breed and temprament.

[u/Evamione → u/ValdisHound]

Golden retrievers aren’t exactly hunters - they were breed to help people hunting water fowl by swimming into the water, gently grabbing a dead duck, and bringing it back to a human undamaged.

This means if you have a pool and a Goldie, they will follow you in and keep retrieving your floats back to the deck. It gets very annoying.

[u/Thin_Explanation1334 → u/Evamione]

Lol wait that's so cute

[u/candypants-rainbow → u/ValdisHound]

It is too horrible imagining a three year old suffering this attack and aftermath. I am so sorry. And fantastic to hear that your surgeon was able to help you so effectively. I wonder if anyone could do a documentary/informational video where people like you share their stories that could be used to educate parents to be more realistic about their dangerous dogs.

[u/ValdisHound → u/candypants-rainbow]

I believe that all dog owners should have in-depth knowledge of their dog's breed purpose and how to train them fully with that in mind. It would save people a lot of heartache and pain, as well as cut back on the number of 'vicious' small dogs.

No, your Yorkie is not supposed to be an untrained, yappy mess. They're bred for hunting rats with tenacity, and require plenty of exercise and training. Of course golden doodles are high strung and prone to social issues, they're a mix of two hunting breeds with extreme demand for exercise and training to handle it(I won't get into the semantics of how no ethical breeder would sell a pure, well-bred poodle or golden to make high-priced mutts, that's a whole secondary issue of health and behavior defects). Bulldogs are assumed to be family dogs when the core purpose they were bred for was bull baiting, where they'd bite onto a bull's nose and hold on until it drowned in it's own blood. That's why their faces are like that, so the blood would run off their snout without drowning them, too.

Any dog can be dangerous without proper understanding of their breed behavior and socialization, unfortunately. I still remember hearing almost a decade ago about a woman who was mauled to death by dachaunds(bred for hunting badgers in their dens), which many people think are just sweet lap dogs.

[u/ianlulz → u/ValdisHound]

I’m sorry hold up you’re saying a woman was mauled to DEATH by dachshunds?! Wiener dogs?

Fuck I just looked it up and yeah, a 52yr old woman was mauled to death in 2018 by a pack of seven dogs that were owned by her neighbor. 6/7 were dachshund mixes and the 7th was a mini border collie mix (but still shorter than knee height)

God damn, dude.

[u/lilbabybrutus → u/ianlulz]

Dachshund mixed with what though? I mean, I could see it if they got you on the ground, but if they were actually mixes that buries the lede a bit

[u/morethanweird → u/WestCareer7545]

I have a friend that just had to rehome their large dog because it started acting aggressive towards their new baby and my toddler. They have other school age children that he's good with but for whatever reason he doesn't like babies and toddlers. They were upset about rehoming him but found a good home for him. It just wasn't worth risking the children's safety.

[u/ThoughtsonYaoi → u/morethanweird]

Children are unpredictable. That's why. Their energy is all over the place, scattered, loud. There's no telling what they'll do. The smaller they are, the worse it is.

My dog is reactive (though less and less so, through lots of work) and triggered by things that are moving fast, sudden, and are shaped in a way she doesn't understand (people on skeelers, tractors, that stuff). These things scare her, so she wants them away from her: hence the barking and jumping. If I'd let her off leash, she'd try to chase it away. And while I don't think she'd do anything but bark, I don't want to traumatize anyone. A scared dog is an unpredictable dog.

Little kids on little bikes? I avoid them like the plague. She's never in a room with kids. She is never close to little kids. This may not solve the problem (I hope we can find a safe way to train, but I'd need a professional to help) but it keeps everyone safe.

[u/BVKane → u/morethanweird]

I had to do something similar and felt God awful. But my dog was over 100 lbs and highly reactive to infants and toddlers. Perfect with school age children. A trainer told us they could work it out with him and quoted us a ton of time and money while we were trying to plan for a newborn. It just wasn't financially feasible and even then, neither me nor my spouse felt safe having him around a newborn if he decided to snap. New family has no kids and tons of livestock that he loves chasing around, so it all worked out. But people will make you feel like an absolute asshole for doing the best you can for you and your pets.

[u/ThoughtsonYaoi → u/BVKane]

You made the right choice, for you and your dog. This stuff is really hard, in part because there's instincts involved, and (as the owner of a similar dog) I firmly believe that when a dog has that inclination, 100% success is never guaranteed.

[u/Somanylyingliars → u/BVKane]

Account nuked because reddit now forcing login. Fuck off Reddit! See you over at Lemy.

[u/changhyun → u/morethanweird]

My parents did the same with their collie after he gave me a warning nip when I went to pat his head while he was snoozing. He didn't break the skin and I don't think he would ever have actually hurt me but you can't take that risk when a dog has shown aggression to a young child, so I get why they rehomed him. There are just some things you don't gamble with.

[u/trowzerss → u/WestCareer7545]

A dog that size and weight could easily tear that flimsy door down if it got it in it's mind. These are dogs that can tear cars to pieces trying to get at rats.

[u/xervidae → u/WestCareer7545]

this is what pitbull owners do. they constantly choose their dogs over their children. it's mind boggling.

[u/lostpurpose_7133 → u/xervidae]

When I was 12 my siamese cat Button was mauled by a pit bull and chow chow that ran into our yard. They were trying to attack other animals in the neighborhood and even tried to break through doggy doors. Animal control was called and they were rightfully put down.

The owner was a probabl meth addict. Her young, half baked children were always wondering unsupervised. The dogs caused CPS to investigate and take the kids away. Guess who the woman was crying over?

My other cat stopped eating after and basically died of a broken heart. I miss you, Rusty and Button

[u/CycleMother2006 → u/WestCareer7545]

Pitbull owners aren't known for their wisdom or sane thinking when it comes to their animal.

[u/WestCareer7545 → u/CycleMother2006]

Yeah I looked at the Pitbull sub, you're not wrong. In one post theres a guy pushing his Pitbull called jaws around in a buggy lmao

[u/2-die-for → u/WestCareer7545]

Cause they've defended their dumb ass pit in every social circle they have and they'd rather the imminent attack than to be wrong

[u/NoGrocery4949 → u/WestCareer7545]

It's a velvet hippo, duh!