What an awful situation for your neighbor (the mother) to be in. If I were in her place and my dog did that, and also growls at the baby then I don't care what my husband said the dog would need to be rehomed. As much as the dog is part of their family, the kids safety would need to take precidence. IMO
As far as the dog attacking the cat, it's prey instinct... would we worry if our dogs had killed a bird, squirrel, chipmunk or mouse. Probably not, because they aren't domesticated animals. I wouldn't think a dog would have the same thoughts though. I would be concerned about my smaller dogs around a dog that would kill cats though, sounds like you have a pretty safe environment so yours should be perfectly fine.
One question for you, if you are out walking your yorkie can your neighbors dog see you? If so what type of reaction does he give? We had a large breed dog in our neighborhood that would go balistic when I walked by their yard with my dogs. It was very scary and confrontational.. I knew without a doubt that it if was able to rip apart their chainlink fence like he was trying to there would have been a full fledged attack. |