I love dogs. I really do. In fact, I like them better than most people — in the abstract at least.
No wonder.
Dogs are fun, they’re loyal, they throw a little celebration when you get home even if you’re just gone for a few hours. Still, they’re not human beings. They’re just not. If you don’t get that all the way down at the core of your being, there’s just something fundamentally wrong with you.
The fate of “Onion” a 6-year-old mastiff-Rhodesian ridgeback mix will be decided on Friday. Onion recently mauled a toddler to death in Henderson, Nev., but animal rights activists are saying it wasn’t a malicious act and they hope the dog will be allowed to live at an animal sanctuary for aggressive canines.
Jeremiah Eskew-Shahan was killed late last month when the 120-pound Onion reportedly attacked the 1-year-old as he was using the animal to help pull himself to his feet — something he did regularly. The Las Vegas Review Journal has more on the incident:
He latched his jaws around the boy’s head and began shaking him back and forth. Jeremiah‘s grandmother wasn’t strong enough to pull the boy away. [Christopher] Shahan heard the commotion from upstairs and raced to rescue his son.
The dog should have been put down Tuesday according to Nevada state law, but the local Fox affiliate reports an animal rights group filed an injunction hours before Onion would have been euthanized:
“The dog didn’t do anything,” said Richard Rosenthal, co-founder of The Lexus Project. “This was not a vicious attack where the dog attempted to tear the child apart, and it’s not a situation where the child was on the ground and the dog went over to him and attacked him.”
The group has set up for the dog to be sent to an animal sanctuary in Colorado, instead of being euthanized.
“They’re willing to take the dog, evaluate the dog and rehabilitate the dog,” Rosenthal said. ”The dog can stay there as long as need be, including the rest of his life, if it turns out there is an aggression issue.”
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7 comments:
Give me a Break!!! Are humans stupid or what. A human life vs a dogs life==and a vicious dog to boot. WTF is going on with citizens of American . This is an all time high in my opioin. The dog lovers have gone wild and insane.
Some people just don't know when to call it quits. Any animal that kills or seriously injures a human should be euthanized. Unless of course this happens during a home invasion or attack against the animals owner. There are so many wonderful animals dying in shelters everyday they should be the ones people should be working to save. People also need to realize that a lot of the large breeds just shouldn't be kept with small children.
This is sad. There are many good animal advocates and animal rights activists that work very hard for better conditions for domestic and farm animals. That work to change cruelty laws so animals suffer less. That rescue and work very hard to find homes for the unwanted and unloved cast off animals. This just makes everybody else look bad.
The issue of dog attacks doesn't just rest on the animals. People go and get these large guardian natured dogs they don't train them they don't socialize them. Behind all bad dogs there is a human to blame. Animals have prey drive and childrens noise can sound like animal noise to them. People need to do their research before they run get a dog and if you have children pick a pet that is well suited for family life. To many get the big dogs as watchdogs and to impress others. But any dog that kills a child should be put to sleep.
Give the dog to the Obama's and they will eat him; KENYA HERITAGE!
Night nigh, I would have killed the dog with my hands if it was my son...
Since the Lexus Project is involved I'm sure they were contacted by the dogs owner to fight to keep him alive. Maybe the owner sees it more as their fault then the dogs. Plus what the people from Lexus are saying is probably what was told to them by tthe owner. Such as it wasn't the dogs fault. They are a good group and do alot of good for the animals.
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