You don’t hear of Huskys and Golden Retrievers biting children because it is not a sensational story. If you look back a lot of large breeds of dogs have been villainized in the media at different points in time including dogs like German Shepherds and Doberman Pinchers. What you don’t read about is that most dog bites reported come from toy breeds who can be just as vicious but don’t look it. You can’t judge a book by it’s cover. It’s better to teach kids how to be around dogs and read their body language to avoid any trouble with strange dogs.

If you don’t think that certain large breed dogs are NOT bred for viciousness by certain people for protection, dog fighting or just because they think it’s funny…it must be a nice world you live in.
Dog fighting is a horrible thing and I so very glad more and more people are getting busted. I am with you “whatever” to all those other ignorant replies.

Aha!! I always say you cannot trust an animal, dog, cat, whatever. They are animals and you never know what is going to set them off. They cannot tell you how they feel, therefore I will not let any dog around my son and will only harm an animal if they attack me or my family.

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OK, what horrible people and how stupid can you be to do that in the first place let alone where you have a daycare? What also should be mentioned is that any animal can bite and might, especially if they feel threatened, that includes cats, dogs, hamsters, birds, etc…..big dogs and certain breeds just get a bad rep because they are newsworthy. Sadly some dogs are bred to fight, again, bad humans creating bad dogs.

Dog people, and I’m nominally one of them, have to choose which way they will use “the breed” when they talk about dogs. I think it’s telling that all of the positive traits common to a type of dog are “the breed” when all of the negatives are anomalies. You have to be even handed.

I think most of the time a breed’s bad reputation turns into a vicious circle– someone who wants a vicious dog, and will do the things necessary to raise a vicious dog, is more likely to buy a breed with a reputation for viciousness. People’s ideas about which dogs are vicious come and go in trends. And toy breeds can be some of the most volatile and nasty (partly because they’re often horribly inbred); they just can’t do nearly as much damage as quickly as a 100 pound breed.

You haven’t heard of golden retrievers or huskies biting children because it’s not sensationalized. I have heard plenty of stories and taken plenty of calls (as a dog trainer) from owners of ALL breeds. And, with just a little web searching you can find stories about killer huskies: http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/husky-kills-twoweekold-child/2007/08/28/1188067077456.html In fact here’s a rundown of dog bites by “non violent” breeds broken down by month: http://www.understand-a-bull.com/Articles/OtherBreedBites/AllDogsBite.htm

Anyhow, all that aside… this situation is messed up on so many levels.

This is just Terrible. I can’t imagine how much this negatively effects the children.

My neighbor has 4 pit bulls, and they are the most well-behaved dogs I’ve ever interacted with. In contrast, my friends growing up had a chihuahua, and that thing would bite if you so much as stepped foot in the house. Across the street, the family was teaching its German Shepherd to hunt cats. It’s not the dogs so much as the people who own them.

Los animales nunca tienen la culpa .Son seres inocentes . La culpa es siempre del ser humano .