Girl, 7, mauled to death by dogs near Winnipeg

Never trust a dog with children. You have no idea what's going on in their heads.

As a responsible dog owner, if you cannot judge your dogs behavior and see signs when it could possible lash out, you should not own a dog. That said you should never leave children un-attended around animals.

Im also going to go out on a limb and say the owners were native.

not likely seeing the area they were from. They weren't family dogs either, and the paper doesn't mention if the owners had children. Dogs need to be socialized around kids, as the mauling could have started as play

Yep. You never know what the kids will do to the poor dog.

Yep. You never know what the kids will do to the poor dog.


Hey, that could chew the fingers off an infant. Just saying...

I speak from experience, doesn't matter what the dog is, what it's history is, you never know. The cat might have pissed in his cornflakes that day and that's all it takes to put a normally docile dog in a dangerous mood.

Weekly the animal rescue we wife helps with picks up abandoned and abused dogs from the local native reserve. There is also a history of violent dog attacks in reservations in Alberta.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/02/02 ... -reserves/

http://metronews.ca/news/canada/265069/ ... a-reserve/

http://www.v4a.org/?q=node/305

http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/07/1/sh ... a1_07.html

As I stated before I was going out on a limb, so I full accept if I am wrong. I do think it is a resonable assumption though.

The son of an ex-gf was playing with his friend's dog (with the friends and his parents in the same room) when it out of the blue bit him in the back of the head. Everyone present said he didn't do anything to threaten (he didn't hit the dog), it just turned feral for an instant and lashed out. It took a dozen or so stitches to close the wound.

While I've never been a huge fan of dogs, since then I've always looked at them differently.

My wife and daughter are also scared of dogs - even very small ones - so I do my best to limit their interactions with them, up to and including not visiting relatives that refuse to put their dogs outside when we visit.

Children can be seriously injured by dogs partly due to the reaction they have when things go bad. Most kids flail their arms and scream, like injured prey. So this entices the dogs to push their attack (there is a reason dog toys have sqeekers).

As for toy dogs being violent, I have seen unruly miniature pinscher, draw blood (though it was a very small amount for an adult). I still think that you need to monitor small children around dogs, and if you have a dog off a leash you must control the enviroment.

This a nicer bedroom community on the outskirts of Winnipeg on the NE, just south of Birds Hill Park. The people might be native, but it definitely isn't rez

https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Oakbank,+ ... a&t=m&z=13

Ah, Im kinda familiar with the area I parents used to live in Stonewall.

I find it easier to keep the kids outside when they visit. Less gets broken because we "should have known" kids would want to touch the nice stuff

I find it easier to keep the kids outside when they visit. Less gets broken because we "should have known" kids would want to touch the nice stuff

Easy in the summer, not so in the winter!

My sister has a dog similar to a Whippet that gets fear aggressive. Normally a big suck, at random intervals if he senses fear he will attack. Some random guy walking down the street, the neighbour when he comes over - she always has to watch him, because she just never knows when that random thought comes into his head . . .