At the risk of starting a firestorm, I'm going to speculate that the larger dog did NOT "attack" the baby dog.
Adult dogs will discipline puppies by grabbing them the head or the scruff of the neck and shaking them. Normally the puppy will calm right down but.................................
.it does happen that injuries can occur in this otherwise perfectly normal instinctive action and if humans were present and got all excited; shouting and screaming, this would have only further wound up BOTH dogs; the little one wouldn't shut up, so the big dog kept shakng and well, you know the result.
A true "attack" would most likely have evidenced itself in bites to the throat of the smaller dog.
There was a case in Overland Park, Kansas a few years back in which a Standard Poodle shook a human baby to death in the same sort of attempt at discipline.
In its world, the dog had done nothing wrong and indeed the death was the fault of the owners, who were NOT prosecuted. The dog was put down.
Small children should NEVER be left alone with dogs, period.
Also, introductions of dogs to other dogs should be carefully monitored, such that instinctive behavior can be controlled.
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