Family dog kills newborn boy near Calgary: RCMP

So sad...

Can't leave young children alone with dogs - you hear it all the time. To the dog the child was an intruder that was usurping it's place in the hierarchy. And Huskies aren't exactly the most mellow breed either.

You do not know if the child was alone with the dog.

So the parents stood by and watched and did nothing?

Dogs can go from cuddly to kill in split seconds. Some breeds, you just can't tell what is going on in their minds. It wouldn't take more than a couple seconds for a dog to grab and shake the baby to death.

Sad story.

I thought you owned dogs?
You're pretty naive when it comes to what they are capable of, and how quick it can go.

My parents dog (25 years ago) was a nice dog. I came down the stairs one day (I was 15) and he attacked me without warning. My mom was home, 4 steps away, I turned around immediately and ran back up the stairs, still have the scar on my butt.
A friends dachshund I was cuddling with bit me in my nose without warning, we had been playing for a while. I was 10. Her parents were in the room, as was my friend.

HOW could those attacks have been prevented?

These are just 2 of my personal stories.

Those parents might have well been in the room, and done EVERYTHING they could (mind you, the child died in hospital 12 HOURS later).
So yes, sad all the way around.

No dog I've ever owned did anything like that.

Even if they were in the room, there's he question of how the dog got at the baby. I wonder why the police are so reluctant to release info on what happened.

I wonder how cozy the relationship is between he cops and this family and the 17yo mother who's charged with manslaughter for briefly leaving her baby unattended with a dog. That's what it comes down to a lot of times whether people are charged or not. If this is a "good" family it's an accident, if it's a family of trouble makers it's something to charge them for.

The dog can come to the baby. Where I am from, it is even promoted, or the dog will definitely get jealous.
Your solution is to lock the dog up when the child is in the room? That's recipe for disaster...

That's more luck than anything else.

It doesn't seem that they are reluctant to.

CBC link to the same story

That's more luck than anything else.

Exactly. The dog I had for the past 14 years was very dominant to dogs, but very gentle to people. One time we were out walking as we did every day, and a little poodle-thingie ran past us suddenly. My dog must have been startled and grabbed the poodlethingie and started to shake her head violently with the 'death shake'. Ripped a big hole in the poodle, busted some ribs and hurt it pretty good.

While she was on a leash attached to me. Cost me a lot of money to fix that one. Luckily the owners understood the random act, or I would have had to put my little girl down years ago.

Never did anything like in again. Completely random.

It doesn't seem that they are reluctant to.

CBC link to the same story




That's just wrong. No matter how much I loved my dog, if it hurt a child out of mailce - it would be dead on the spot by my hand.

Agreed, even though it would near kill me to have to put down my own girl.

Andy is a great parent.