Expert: Shelters unlikely to take banished Billerica dog

While I love dogs and think they can be a great thing for many families, any dog that bites someone for no reason should be euthanized. There is no way to know, even with "advanced training" that a dog who bites unprovoked will not bite again. This dog is a tragedy waiting to happen.

ILOVEDOGSBUT wrote:

While I love dogs and think they can be a great thing for many families, any dog that bites someone for no reason should be euthanized. There is no way to know, even with "advanced training" that a dog who bites unprovoked will not bite again. This dog is a tragedy waiting to happen.

Over the weekend another vicious breed of dog (Pit Bull) attacked a child in Massachusetts. The dog latched on to the childs head, pictures of the child was so sad.

When will these people learn that some dogs should not be allowed to live around people.

If these dog owners want these type dogs, that can snap at any time, they should get a large parcel of land and fence it securely.

There is no sane way to allow these type breeds to walk in neighborhoods.

How many CHILDREN will pay for these ego driven animal owners?

I agree! I can't believe that anyone wouldn't want the dog destroyed. Do you need a kid disfigured like the one in today's paper. Isn't the value of a person worth more than a dog? Get with it! Instead of doing what is "politically correct" - destroy the dog.

SE Asians eat dog. Why waste food. Dead serious.

Education wrote:

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Over the weekend another vicious breed of dog (Pit Bull) attacked a child in Massachusetts. The dog latched on to the childs head, pictures of the child was so sad.
When will these people learn that some dogs should not be allowed to live around people.
If these dog owners want these type dogs, that can snap at any time, they should get a large parcel of land and fence it securely.
There is no sane way to allow these type breeds to walk in neighborhoods.
How many CHILDREN will pay for these ego driven animal owners?

Are you serious? To quote you in your ignorance "another vicious breed of dog" in my lifetime of being a dog owner I have never heard of breeds being catergorized as vicious or not vicious. It's hardly a matter of breed... just an matter of behavior. What evidence is there to support that the dog was NOT provoked? There is none. Maybe the man attacked was a particularly "vicious" person and deserved what he got. It's so easy to blame the animal when they have no way of speaking for themselves. The only thing that should be euthanized is your opinion.

Education wrote:

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Over the weekend another vicious breed of dog (Pit Bull) attacked a child in Massachusetts. The dog latched on to the childs head, pictures of the child was so sad.
When will these people learn that some dogs should not be allowed to live around people.
If these dog owners want these type dogs, that can snap at any time, they should get a large parcel of land and fence it securely.
There is no sane way to allow these type breeds to walk in neighborhoods.
How many CHILDREN will pay for these ego driven animal owners?

"Punish The Deed, Not The Breed"

You're the kind of person that drives animal activists like myself insane. Attacks like these have NOTHING to do with breed! Any breed of any dog can be brought up to be agressive. It has everything to do with the way a dog is brought up and how it is treated as a puppy. Tell me a breed and I can shows at least 2 examples of people I know or have met that have a friendly dog of that breed who would never harm a fly (even pits and rotties). Any dog can be raised to be agressive just as any dog can be raised to be friendly.

Also, "Breed Specific Legislation" is in on of itself a horrible idea. What do you think happens when you suddenly make something illegal? People want to do it or own it. All that's going to do is make MORE people raise agrresive dogs and undesrvingly give banned breeds MORE of a bad name. All you have to do for proof of this is look at what's going on with pot right now, or the huge surge in organize crime with prohibition when alcohol was outlawed.

Education wrote:

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Over the weekend another vicious breed of dog (Pit Bull) attacked a child in Massachusetts. The dog latched on to the childs head, pictures of the child was so sad.
When will these people learn that some dogs should not be allowed to live around people.
If these dog owners want these type dogs, that can snap at any time, they should get a large parcel of land and fence it securely.
There is no sane way to allow these type breeds to walk in neighborhoods.
How many CHILDREN will pay for these ego driven animal owners?

I did read that article and I have to make a couple of points. That child was strapped in his stroller @ 12:45 AM. Quarter of 1 in the morning! I believe the child was under 2 years of age. The "mom" was putting the other child who was 4 in bed. There where other people in the apartment as I understood it. This is a prime example of the class of people that own this dog. At that time of night that kid should have been in bed, period. Should the animal be put down? Absolutely. But I know many responsable pit bull owners and have a hard time with the knock on the animal. German shepards and labs bite more humans than pit bulls, yet there is no outcry to exterminate those breeds? And for the record, I dont own a pit bull, my lab is at my feet as I type this. This particular case shows a woman who can't properly take care of her kids nevermind train a dog!

So, I did and what does it have to do with this subject? Prehaps I missed something.
Anyway, that dog is a walking time bomb. I had a dog who displayed vicious behavior towards children and strangers. I had to take steps to correct it or remaove the dog. It's tough.

Oops!! No spell check for perhaps!