Man killed by dog he just adopted .

That's sad. Five days isn't enough to observe the dog's behavior and doing temperament assessment.
 
That's horrible. It must have been terrible for the wife to find his body. :(
 
Sadly, many shelters do not have behavioral departments at all, or accurate behavioral <or any> assessments on intake, nor accurate adoption counseling.

*some* facilities are "dumping grounds" and just trying to get as many animals out as possible, because of a combination of large numbers of animals, poor funding, poor staffing/high staff turnover/burnout and so on.

very sad for everyone:(
 
~SG~ said:
That's sad. Five days isn't enough to observe the dog's behavior and doing temperament assessment.
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I agree with you 100% ! I hope this won't stop people from getting dogs
from shelters , there are a lot of good dogs needing a good home.


I met a guy at the park that adopted a dog from shelter , the dog was given up b/c it'll bite you when you try to pet it. The guy can't even pet his own dog .
I don't think I would had gotten a dog that know to bite you would need insurance just for the dog.
 
Last month, my friend (who has 2 full grown Great Danes), decided to foster another Great Dane that was 1 or 2 years old....The foster Great Dane attacked one of her dogs and when she tried to intervene, the dog attacked her....She had a lot of cuts and bruises, but knew what to do. Hard punches in their snout (nose)....

Neverless, she turned the dog back in...and now will be adopting a Great Dane puppy!...an Xmas present. She's excited! Her dogs get the best food, best Vet care of any dog I've ever seen!.....And they sleep with her!...:lol:...She also sends them to Doggie Day Care several times a week so they can interact with other big dogs....her doggies are so gentle, no matter their size.

She's a very strong individual...walks them both at the same time and controls them very well....She also got a kitten, and the dogs loved it.....

I've rode with her several times and she would have her Great Danes in the bck of her SUV (seats taken out).....People would be looking :shock:...and saying,,"Wow, take a look at that!" Their heads hanging out the window and their jowls flying in the wind....ahh...such an experience.
 
we've had a few Danes come in the store. Often gentle giants
 
Danes as you say gentle dogs unual dog like that in shelter
 
She also told me a story...as she was walking her Danes and a Pit Bull came out of nowhere and attacked one of her Danes....Her Dane sustained a lot of injuries...and she ran and got a shovel to beat the Pit Bull off her dog.....She was very lucky....and the Pit Bull was put down.
 
Am so sorry to read, RR so scary..

though - "pit bulls" -can be- dog aggressive due to the type's original background. That does not translate to the same behavior toward people.
That also does not mean that ALL pit bull type dogs are dog-aggressive.

Where we lived before on several occasions we had loose or stray dogs come out and go after our dogs while walking. In two instances the loose dogs were Black Labs/Lab mixes <and one of my dogs was also a Blk Lab>; two were small Terrier-mixes<one Jack Russel-ish looking in part>

In high school I was visiting a friend one day. Some people she lived with had a Great Dane. I did something stupid and got bit in the finger. I also came close as a child to being bitten in the face by a small wire-haired Terrier-mix type dog.

In all the years I've been around or working with pit bulls, I have not ever been threatened by one.
 
Yet my friend had American pits for years friendly loving dogs only irritating things they give you bit to much loving
 
rockin'robin said:
Last month, my friend (who has 2 full grown Great Danes), decided to foster another Great Dane that was 1 or 2 years old....The foster Great Dane attacked one of her dogs and when she tried to intervene, the dog attacked her....She had a lot of cuts and bruises, but knew what to do. Hard punches in their snout (nose)....

Neverless, she turned the dog back in...and now will be adopting a Great Dane puppy!...an Xmas present. She's excited! Her dogs get the best food, best Vet care of any dog I've ever seen!.....And they sleep with her!...:lol:...She also sends them to Doggie Day Care several times a week so they can interact with other big dogs....her doggies are so gentle, no matter their size.

She's a very strong individual...walks them both at the same time and controls them very well....She also got a kitten, and the dogs loved it.....

I've rode with her several times and she would have her Great Danes in the bck of her SUV (seats taken out).....People would be looking :shock:...and saying,,"Wow, take a look at that!" Their heads hanging out the window and their jowls flying in the wind....ahh...such an experience.
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I hope she has a extra large king size bed! I have a queen size bed and Marty weight only 18 1bs at the most can take up most of my bed or should I say our bed . :giggle: Your friend was lucky she was not bitten in the face. Marty was attacked by a dog the owner just rescued from a shelter . They didn't have the dog long and took him the park and our dogs did their doggies thing sniffing butts etc and I started to walk away and the dog jumped out and bite my dog on his butt. My granddaughter was coming over to pat the dog just when this happen ! My daughter and I both said we would killed that dog if had bitten our child .
I did heard of a family wanting adopt a Rottie puppy from breeder and the puppy bite their son on his face. So it not only shelter dogs that might bite , you have to do your homework when going to a breeder , b/c there good one and bad one .
 
WDYS! dog parks can difficult for many dogs, how was Marty afterward?
I can see why you'd be upset!

You're right - all dogs bite.

99% of dogs will also guard/protect -something - sometime, whether that's a special toy they have, or an empty food bowl, or their special sleeping place.
 
dogmom said:
WDYS! dog parks can difficult for many dogs, how was Marty afterward?
I can see why you'd be upset!

You're right - all dogs bite.

99% of dogs will also guard/protect -something - sometime, whether that's a special toy they have, or an empty food bowl, or their special sleeping place.
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Marty barked at most dogs he see now, I think he is trying to protect both of us . I try to keep Marty from barking before he has time to open his mouth and that helps. I have a hard time trusting dogs I don't know now too . He never bark at home only when he see an animal outside. Marty once peed at foot of my bed and right in the middle of it and I was BS! He never did this before and had no idea why he did, I took him outside a lot to pee. I found out that a next door neighbor was taking care of her b/f male dog and Marty was marking his territory which happen to be my bed! UGH!
 
I can see why you'd both be worried. Many times dogs who have been attacked by another dog - especially when one or both dogs were on a leash -though I know this isn't the case here - later become defensively aggressive - "I'll be noisy and scary before something hurts me".
This happened with my shy Black Lab some years ago. He came to us through rescue from a "red flag" breeder situation <he was actually to afraid to come out of the house and meet us when we pulled in to the property with our first dog, after driving for a ways to see him>.
The breeder had taken him back from an initial poor home placement with supposedly an elderly woman who after adopting him, left him in a backyard kennel with other dogs and did nothing with him.
He was 1 and 1/2 years old when we met him and was not house-trained, didn't know about leashes, nor was crate-trained and had bladder infection, mild mange and ear infections.
The Summer of the year that we took him <and he was just handed off to us, free, with one piece of paper from the vet> we were out walking around in our city neighborhood and a dog ran out of a house at us. I stopped to let both dogs smell as I didn't want to pull my dog away and cause misunderstanding that would lead to a problem. Didn't matter - the other dog went for him and there I was holding the leash with two fighting <mostly noise> dogs. The property-owner came running out across the lawn, saying as she grabbed him "I'm sorry, he's not good with other dogs" <NO-REALLY?!:roll:>
So after that, my Lab - who had already been shy - was more worried than before.

I was, however, thanksful that I hadn't had my first female Rottie with me instead my mellow boy - it would have been an entirely different ending, NOT because Rotties are "mean" dogs, but because of a combination of breed bias and just physical strength/ability between my 86-pound female and the size of the attacking dog- small, Terrier-ish mix, maybe size of a Beagle dog.
 
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