Toddlers mauled to death by dogs despite mother fighting

[bluemingidiot]

Toddlers mauled to death by dogs despite mother fighting them off for 10 minutes

A Tennessee mother-of-two is now in stable condition with “stitches and bite marks over her entire body” after attempting to intervene when her two pit bulls mauled her toddlers to death Wednesday.


The pets, Cheech and Mia, were a part of the family for more than eight years without a violent incident.

[bluemingidiot]

"Children ages 5-9 are most at risk for dog bites. Every year, 850,000 dog bite victims require medical attention, of which, 400,000 are children. Many dog bites involves children involve familiar dogs while the children engage in everyday activities, and a higher frequency of dog bites occur in the summer."

[Woodpecker]

This is so very sad and frightening. It seems it's usually the Pit bulls...although people say it's all in the manner they're trained. This doesn't make sense if they had these dogs for 8 years.

I remember one incident years ago where a beloved pet German Shepard bit a child member, then they found out the child had pushed a pencil down the dogs ear. I wonder if something like that happened.

[Maura]

I wonder if they were poisoned. Some poisons will affect the brain.

[bluemingidiot]

Have any poisoned dogs been previously known to viciously attack the family they were living with?

[Maura]

Gunpowder kills brain cells. It also burns a hole in the stomach which is very painful. Dogs in pain can be quite dangerous. I don't have a study specifically related to certain poisons and family attacks. But think about it, both dogs at the same time.

[bluemingidiot]

New data published in August revealed 628 children were admitted to Sydney Children’s Hospital with dog-related injuries from 2010 to 2020.

The average patient’s age was just five years old and the pitbull was the most common attacker making up 10.3 per cent of cases, followed by labradors (8.5 per cent) and rottweilers (6.8 per cent).

The average clinical cost per dog bite injury was $2968.


That is some bad Labradors.

I think what is happening here is a lot more families with kids have Labradors than families with kids have pit bulls or rottweilers. So when kids provoke dogs, as kids or going to do, there is a high bite number. Parents should never leave dogs and children alone and don't allow children to annoy or abuse pets.

[dustawaits]

It is not only the way pits are raised or trained. It goes back to
the parents or grandparents.or even further.A dog with a black heart
can be as sweet as sugar but one day that heart will take over and woe
to what gets in it's path.

[Maura]

One of my clients was a beautiful cocker spaniel. It had owner possession and would bite people who got to close to the wife. A cocker spaniel, biting. Bad breeding.
Two of the papillons I fostered had the same problem. Cute little spaniels who were not adoptable. Puppy mill dogs.
Labradors biting family members, pit bulls biting family members, bad breeding.
Rottweilers biting, well, it happens because they are meant to be fierce and aggressive, definitely not for most people. American rotes tend to be bred for less aggression.
I still think that two 8 year old dogs of any breed who suddenly go off the deep end isn't breeding. I wonder, though, if the dogs and children had always been kept separated prior to the event.

[countrymom22]

It's often one dog that starts it and the other joins in. It's called pack mentality. Happens with all breeds. So sad.

[backwoodsman]

Oct 8, 2022 13:35:32 GMT Woodpecker said:

This is so very sad and frightening. It seems it's usually the Pit bulls...although people say it's all in the manner they're trained. This doesn't make sense if they had these dogs for 8 years.

I'm not so sure it doesn't make sense.  Dogs are pack animals with a clearly defined pack hierarchy.  Many dog owners don't understand how that works, and what it takes for dogs to see the owner as pack leader, rather than one of the dogs.  It's clear the dogs considered themselves higher in the pack hierarchy than the mother or the kids.

[Maura]

But, they attacked the babies. The "puppy card" should have protected the babies from anything more than a nip. It's not like they would have been scared of the toddlers.

[countrymom22]

I know the mother was also badly injured trying to save her kids. Has she said anything about how it started? I haven't heard anything about that.