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

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144. You still can't judge it was no good reason even

under that circumstance. If that dog has a history of attacking people on the street, that's one thing and should be dealt with, but if that dog has never done that before, that's quite an extreme knee jerk reaction. So because a dog bites once, does that mean that dog will do it again and maybe kill someone? If that were the case then we'd have deaths well into the tens of thousands instead of the 30 some people per year when you count all deaths by any dog, not just the pit bulls. So would this apply to all dogs, or just pit bulls? What if it was a little teacup dog that does not have the capacity to seriously maim or kill? Do you think they should be put down also?

So if I punch someone in the face, out of the blue, does that mean I'm likely to kill someone so I should get the death penalty immediately? It might indicate I have a problem, but that doesn't mean I'm surely going to kill someone someday or do serious bodily harm. When a dog bite occurs, everything must be taken into account - negligence of the owner or abuse from owner if it applies, the dog's history, and ascertain as best as possible what the circumstances were concerning that bite. I know it's not as easy as just calling animal control to pick up the dog to be euthanized, but that's no excuse for laziness.

Now I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt by assuming your goal here would be to prevent serious bodily harm or death - but if you mean any bite, no matter how minor the injury and that dog has a clean history - that's messed up. I know getting bit is not pleasant, but there are much worse things that can happen - it's pretty extreme to kill a dog for that.