Dogs are just dogs - animals and need to be trained and taught how to behave around people and each other and then watched constantly when around non-family members and children - and why someone has that many big, powerful dogs around in a home setting when they obviously can't control them is beyond me. It just cost a human life and a family their child and the world her talents and is was a total needless tragedy. I guess when enough people finally die this way, something will happen by legislators to make the humans pay so severely that some will restrict themselves from putting themselves at liability for going to jail for a year or two - no exceptions - or something like that. But those lawmakers had better be ready to take a lot of heat from dogowners. There will be a howl from here to the moon and back when they try to restrict dog ownership to reasonable numbers for big, powerful breeds or put huge penalties on people when their dogs attack and/or kill. But something clearly needs to happen to stop this!
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |