As much as I would like to, I can't.

A woman who is abused by men can often develop a disorder where she is agressive to any man that aproaches her. 

I think you said it best when you said "As a parent."  I think you are letting your parenthood blind yourself on the issue.  Which is understandable considering the importance of child raising in someones lives, but still, I think it's effecting your judgement, much how people want all violent videogames banned etc.

I don't think humans should have equal rights as animals all for animal testing and things that benefit man kind, but you are generally talking about destroying an animal for no real reason other then misuse by the owner and a general piece of mind.

It's no better then just going out with a bebe gun and shooting cats and birds.

There are plenty of ways to be responsible with animals in the house plenty of people do it.

He got the surgery about a year ago, long before my niece was even able to antagonize him, before she could even walk.

Even then he would snarl and growl at children and on some ocassions show teeth.

It is something we should have picked up on and acted upon long ago.

The dog has a problem and it isn't parenthood that is blinding me, it is just me understanding the situation at hand now and realizing that my families well being comes long before an animals.

Dog's can change and here is shows. He used to love children up until after the surgery. Almost anything they do gets him aggrevated, including just being in the same viscinity as him.

It isn't even just limited to children either. Although not as frequent, he has shown signs of aggression towards me and has an absolute hatred for best friend.

It is almost like at this point we can't bring anyone over.

At some point one needs to realize when enough is enough.

Which still doesn't change the underlying issue that it's something you guys should of picked up and acted on quite honestly.  I can't ever see putting down a dog because of it's owners mistake.  Like I said, it's no better then shooting random animals with bebe guns.

Yeah, we should have gotten rid of him a year ago.

It isn't our fault that a surgery required in order to save his life has going to turn him into a child hating beast.

@Soriku

She wasn't attacked when she hit him with the stick. She was hitting him and then my sister saw it. She then put my neice in an empty room by herself for a while to let her know she couldn't do things like that. Call it a "Time out" if you will.

It was later in the day when she got attacked, and at that time all she did was walk out the back door.

Also, what is the "justifiable" solution here?

Stick my niece in a children's group home and hope that a scarred 2 year old girl gets picked up by a nice family while we keep a dog that poses a danger to my 9 1/2 month old daughter?

That is the issue here. Regardless of the solution my daughter remains in danger as long as the dog is around.


No parent should be foolish enough to care about what is best for the dog when a child's safety is in question.

Scratch that. No person should be foolish enough.

I still believe someone should call the social services and take your sister's kids away, because she definitely doesn't seem able to take care of them. The dog growls and looks aggressive to children (or so you say), but you still allowed him come near the kids?! Freaking poor judgement on your sister's part, and I'll be gutted if you get rid of the dog.

I MEAN, HOW THE HELL DID YOUR SISTER ALLOW HER CHILD TO STICK ON A DOG THAT ALREADY GROWLS TO CHILDREN?!?!?!

And pets are part of the family too, and although you said he growls constantly at kids, it is baffling to me how you still allowed the girl to harm the dog!!

I am sure I know more about my dog than you do Shio. Don't come in here with some "Or so you say" garbage. You have no idea what happened or how this dog is.

As for you're sentence in all caps. I think the better question is "Why the hell did we keep a dog that already growls at our children?". That is the real question we all need to ask ourselves. Keeping the dog to begin with was our first mistake.

His time came a year ago, when he developed a double hernia, could not longer walk, was in tremendous pain and had an anus that protrduded due to him no longer being able to shit and the constant pushing only caused more pain and bleeding. He was going to die.

What did we do? We spent $4,000 to make him well again.

If we let nature take it's course than this would have never happened, so don't act like we never cared about the dog because that is absolute bullshit.

I find it hilarious that some people care more about the well being of a 10 year old child hating animal than a 2 year old child.

The dog will live 3-4 years more max while my niece will need to live with these scars for the rest of her life.

Absolutely sickening to be honest.

Don't act like you never did stupid shit as a kid.

No, the justfiable solution is to simply keep them seperate, pay more attention to parenting while trying to find the dog a good home.

If you can't find one, your stuck with him.

It's the only solution that doesn't punish those who aren't guilty.

Otherwise it's like saying violent videogames should be banned from all homes because your child might still play them.