Owner Attacked by Dog and Loses Arms: Was it Provoked or Out of the Blue?

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143. My post was not directed at you

I was talking to the one who made the blanket statement that a dog that bites "for no good reason" should be put down IMMEDIATELY without going into detail as to when it's appropriate and when it's not and how you can tell that it was actually for "no good reason". That sounded to me like a person who doesn't understand that not all dogs bite out of aggression and not always representative of the dog's true nature and doesn't mean that dog will someday kill a person. A dog that is a habitual biter should be dealt with accordingly. If a dog bites once, heading right out to put that dog to sleep is pretty extreme. So I wasn't lecturing you about why dogs bite.

Anyway, everything was all on the owner. If she would have done this, or if she would have done that ... exactly. Instead of doing the right thing, she chose to take the easy way out instead of working on the issue. Sadly too many irresponsible people have dogs which is what creates this mess.