Dogs and babies

Spudlet

Spudlet

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Now before we start - no. I'm not. Definitely not. No. The fact that I am sitting here with a hot water bottle, a grumpy attitude, spots and chocolate really should answer that question.

No - someone I know vaguely has just taken her new baby home - and on the same day had her dog PTS.

The dog had a hunting instinct, and had had both cats and rabbits before. Apparently, the dog came back into the house (it had been away while she had the baby) and got the 'look' he got when hunting, and jumped up while she held the baby in her arms. He was 8 years old, of a hunting breed and had been rehomed to her.

Now, I can totally see why she wouldn't want to take a chance here.

PTS though - seems harsh to me. IMO the dog deserved another chance - she's had 9 months to plan this and find a great home for him.

In her shoes, I think I'd have had the dog in kennels overnight and headed off to the Dogs Trust the next day to find him a new home. She apparently didn't want to risk him finding a poor home. He was a nice, pedigree dog though, well-trained - I'm sure a rescue centre could have found a good home for him.

Just can't approve of this I'm afraid
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She wants bloody shooting. She had NINE MONTHS to consider what to do with the dog before this situation arose, that is plenty of time to rehome it to someone with more common sense than she has apparently got
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Sorry but this sort of thing really p*sses me off, obviously no-one would ever want to put their baby at risk but this is unncessary
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I agree with you.
Poor planning on her part and the easy way out i think.

She had 9 months as you say and she could have found him a great home in that time.

Poor dog!
 
The only bit I agree with is the part where she did not want him to go to a bad home.............saying that 9 months is plenty of time to find a responsible home, she sounds like a lazy selfish twat
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I'm torn on this - this dog
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was put to sleep not after this picture was taken. Not because he would have attacked me, but because he would have protected both me and my mother with his life.
My dad had left and my mum had enough on her plate and he sort of filled the role of 'protector', while he was always protective, this seemed to make the problem worse.
He pinned a charity collector to the ground at our doorstep and barked and growled at anyone who came near us.

Some people say she could have rehomed him, but my mum could not have lived with herself if he had been rehomed somewhere, got attached to someone, if he had displayed the same tendencies and gone on to seriously hurt someone.

He was only six or so, but I think she made the right decision and she spent a lot of time thinking about it, she still calls him 'the best dog I ever had'.

Maybe this woman wanted to see what the dog was like with the baby before she took her decision, maybe at eight she considered the dog too old, obv not the same breed but I know GSD rescue is full of older dogs who had never done anything wrong previously but have been booted into kennels because they growled once, including one who was accosted by a street drinker and barked at him...cheerio dog.

Older dogs are much harder to rehome
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Not saying I disagree with the fact that she had plenty of time to make a decision though, those are just my thoughts.
 
But CC did he not show potential aggression and would he not be likely to be aggressisve in someone elses hand..........Hen said the other dog was very well behaved and not mentioned any previous aggression or aggressive behaviour towards humans.
And she literally got shot of the dog the day she got the dog back and he looked at the sprog, she never gave him a chance
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yours is a very different to your sceanrio.
 
Oh I am not agreeing with what she did, if it were my friend I would have given her a rocket, having kids does funny things to people.

I am kinda playing Devil's Advocate really, maybe there was more to it, maybe having a baby and having all those hormones floating around made her feel very strongly on the subject, I dunno.
 
Don't judge the very new mother too harshly, she had to make a decision for the safety of her baby. I would not trust any dog with a baby at any time and its very hard to cope with your hormones all upset. I personally would rather know what has happened to an animal be it horse or dog, being pts is not painful and they do not know what is going on and it can and is done very quietly.
 
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