Police dog tries to eat toddler's face...

**R6_kid:Me** · 8th May 2010, 10:22

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10643568

C'mon KB... where is the knee jerk reaction we're so famous for?

**Ronin** · 8th May 2010, 10:31

Where's the need for one?

**Toaster** · 8th May 2010, 10:42

I am sure the dog handler would be feeling sick over the incident and will be filling in paperwork for a while yet.

Hope the child heals quickly and fully.

**Headbanger** · 8th May 2010, 10:50

I'd assume that its one rule for all right?

So the dog gets put down.

After all, You can't go around mauling kids faces no matter how hairy you are.

**onearmedbandit** · 8th May 2010, 10:53

Originally Posted by R6_kid

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10643568

C'mon KB... where is the knee jerk reaction we're so famous for?

Yep, cos ain't nowhere else where dat duz happin duzit?

**Littleman** · 8th May 2010, 11:11

Given the kid got unwanted unjustified attention from the Police, the kid must ride a motor bike.

Surely.

**imdying** · 8th May 2010, 11:13

Originally Posted by Headbanger

After all, You can't go around mauling kids faces no matter how hairy you are.

Well it's sort of what we pay those dogs to do... not sure why you'd put a child that close to a trained track and attack dog though

**firefighter** · 8th May 2010, 11:19

I think it's great that the family are'nt wanting the dog put down or "fired", and realise that it's a very very rare once off. Cudos to them for that.

**firefighter** · 8th May 2010, 11:23

Originally Posted by Headbanger

I'd assume that its one rule for all right?

So the dog gets put down.

After all, You can't go around mauling kids faces no matter how hairy you are.

Mauling is a bit of a 3 news description is'nt it?! He bit the kid, if he'd mauled him there'd be no face left.
Putting it down I think is completely knee-jerk and unnecessary. I actually do'nt think it'll do it again, after the hiding the handler would have given it! Dogs do learn, I reckon it most likely is a once off. I mean shit, we keep violent murderers/rapists etc alive, and I hold the dog told in far higher stead than them. If we put all of the rapists and murderers down first, then maybe we can look at the dog. After all you said it, one rule for all. (bear in mind I think of crims as less than equals to a dog)

**onearmedbandit** · 8th May 2010, 11:31

Originally Posted by firefighter

Mauling is a bit of a 3 news description is'nt it?! He bit the kid, if he'd mauled him there'd be no face left.
Putting it down I think is completely knee-jerk and unnecessary. I actually do'nt think it'll do it again, after the hiding the handler would have given it! Dogs do learn, I reckon it most likely is a once off. I mean shit, we keep violent murderers/rapists etc alive, and I hold the dog told in far higher stead than them. If we put all of the rapists and murderers down first, then maybe we can look at the dog. After all you said it, one rule for all. (bear in mind I think of crims as less than equals to a dog)

Excellent post. +1

**Headbanger** · 8th May 2010, 12:24

Originally Posted by firefighter

Mauling is a bit of a 3 news description is'nt it?! He bit the kid, if he'd mauled him there'd be no face left.
Putting it down I think is completely knee-jerk and unnecessary.)

We have no idea what would have happened to the child if the handler wasn't holding onto the dog, The potential for far more serious injury was only a hair away.

If I owned a dog and it done that to a policemans face it would be destroyed before anyone could claim it was a one off event and I'd be getting the beating. Not that any such claims would make any difference even if time was given to voice them.

If the police paraded that dog in front of my children there would be hell to pay.

That aside, We had a dog that done that to a childs face, It was horrible to witness and completely out of character.

A year or so later it tired to do it again though it was stopped before it could pierce the skin. We had him put down . A sad day for an old friend but it should have been done after the first incident.

**MSTRS:Me** · 8th May 2010, 12:28

Originally Posted by imdying

Well it's sort of what we pay those dogs to do... not sure why you'd put a child that close to a trained track and attack dog though

Trained. To respond to instructions, not stimuli.
I don't know the answer to this one. A dog that does it once (despite the training) is a time bomb...

**imdying** · 8th May 2010, 12:47

It's a dog, not a robot... given that the training is given to it by men, then it's bound to have failures.

People stab them, and hit them with iron bars, it's imperative that they're a little savage, getting them close to school children is crazy.

**EJK** · 8th May 2010, 12:53

Did the kid grabbed the dog's genitals?

**R6_kid:Me** · 8th May 2010, 13:05

Originally Posted by imdying

It's a dog, not a robot... given that the training is given to it by men, then it's bound to have failures.

People stab them, and hit them with iron bars, it's imperative that they're a little savage, getting them close to school children is crazy.

A dog that is trained to be savage and vicious when the need arises... all of a sudden something touches him from a direction he's not expecting attention from, he gets startled and boom he defends himself as he's been trained to do. Not the dogs fault.
First thing I ever learnt about animal safety was not to approach any potentially dangerous animal from anywhere where it can't see you - this kid learnt the hard way.

Originally Posted by Littleman

Given the kid got unwanted unjustified attention from the Police, the kid may ride a motor bike.

Surely.

Good thing it wasn't a motorcyclists getting his face bit or we'd already be 20 pages deep in "kill the fucking dog" posts