Pit Bull Puppy Chewed Off Baby's Toes While Parents Slept

[Frisky]

Frisky, shut up and keep looking good. I was just messing with him because I know what gets his goat.

lol

I still U B... and always will!

 

[Bikini Mod]

Anything could have happened. Were the parents negligent to have ANY dog in close proximity to their own newborn? I believe they were. But I dont think that any of us has enough FACTS to rule whether they were drunk/high/or seriously negligent enough to have their child taken from them. How many of us with young children did things because we simply werent thinking or turned our head for a split second that caused our children a "little harm" or at the very least COULD HAVE CAUSED HARM were we not to come back to reality when were were otherwise distracted?

Me, if ANY of my children yawned from another room I would wake: just one of the reasons all of my children were in their own beds in their own rooms from the day we brought them home from the hospital. And no, I didnt feel the need to have a freaking nursery monitor to be woken in stereo. Strangely enough not one of my children EVER starved to death. I was solely responsible to feed them as I nursed them all. My husband never once had to wake me. He slept through it all.

HOWEVER, my oldest daughter is SUCH a deep sleeper that I have seen her snore through all but an earthquake. You literally have to shake her quite forcefully to get her to wake, lights on and lots of activity in the room to get her out of bed even if she is well-rested.

Does any of you remember just HOW EXHAUSTED you were when you had a newborn in the house?

I am not defending anyone. Only causing some of you that are quick to judge to think a minute before you do.

And just because the couple was poor does not mean that they couldnt provide a loving home for a child.

 

[jnevin]

I can't imagine leaving a newborn around a dog, as dogs can get jealous of the attention given to any new addition to a family, dog, cat, kid, etc. They just don't know to be gentle around something so fragile. It just seems like a bad accident, I can't imagine them being lousy enough parents to have the courts take the kid from them or anything.

 

[Bikini Mod]

The courts will take your children for far less.

 

[musclemom]

I can't imagine leaving a newborn around a dog, as dogs can get jealous of the attention given to any new addition to a family, dog, cat, kid, etc. They just don't know to be gentle around something so fragile. It just seems like a bad accident, I can't imagine them being lousy enough parents to have the courts take the kid from them or anything.

Well, let's put it this way, I seriously think they would benefit from some mandatory parenting classes though.

I've had animals all my life, and had them when my son was an infant. It was just common sense that you don't mix baby human with furballs. So obviously these folks need a few life lessons in common sense.

 

[jnevin]

Well, let's put it this way, I seriously think they would benefit from some mandatory parenting classes though.

I've had animals all my life, and had them when my son was an infant. It was just common sense that you don't mix baby human with furballs. So obviously these folks need a few life lessons in common sense.

Yeah. My dog is extremely loving and wouldn't hurt anyone, but I'd keep him away from my baby if I had one for the simple reason he doesn't know a) how big and strong he is, and b) how small and fragile a baby is. The pup shouldn't have access to the baby the way it did.

 

[Bikini Mod]

Well, let's put it this way, I seriously think they would benefit from some mandatory parenting classes though.

Agreed 100%

 

[redguru]

It's a baby pitbull. The vet said the dog probably thought it was nursing.

I wouldn't put a baby with a pit, but the dog didn't attack the baby. It was all just a horrible mistake that's going to leave the poor kid scarred.

The Vet also added the caveat ,"I know that sounds a little far fetched".

 

[jnevin]

The Vet also added the caveat ,"I know that sounds a little far fetched".

Yeah, he said it sounds a little fat fetched, but a 6 week old dog will suckle on anything like a nipple. I got mine at 8 weeks, and he'd try to nurse from my fingers. Their teeth scrape when they do that, and babies have really thin skin. I don't really like pits that much, every time I'm at the dog park and a dog starts fucking up it's either a pit or a chow, but I don't think this one was trying to hurt the kid. It would have climbed onto the car seat and gone to work if it did.

 

[redguru]

Yeah, he said it sounds a little fat fetched, but a 6 week old dog will suckle on anything like a nipple. I got mine at 8 weeks, and he'd try to nurse from my fingers. Their teeth scrape when they do that, and babies have really thin skin. I don't really like pits that much, every time I'm at the dog park and a dog starts fucking up it's either a pit or a chow, but I don't think this one was trying to hurt the kid. It would have climbed onto the car seat and gone to work if it did.

I agree that the Pit bull wasn't trying to kill the child. Since all he had was his milk teeth it would have taken quite some time to chew the toes off that child. It's just outrageous that they didn't hear it. Like I said before, being poor is no excuse for not having a crib. There are many charities that will donate a crib for a newborn.