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Originally Posted by Pseudonymous
Are you kidding me? You think because a small dog gets in a fight with a big dog and a big dog wins and tears up the small dog, that the big dog is one, at fault, or two, means they look at small dogs like food? That is not the case. My dog is perfect around dogs, yet if a dog started acting aggressive towards him and started yapping in his face, he'd react, as any dog would do.
The only mistake here is the owner trusted somebody that didn't know a thing. From the story, you have NO idea whether their dog confonted the bigger dog. Maybe the other dog started acting aggressively first? Ever think of that?
As a couple people mentioned, it's simply how dogs are and the owners didn't pay attention closely enough, both of them.
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The food analogy is largely a joke (and mostly used by big dog owners)
I've owned larger dogs all my life. None of them were agressive in that way towards other dogs, small or otherwise. The only thing I can attribute that fact to is that they were trained extensively (by me), and they were also allowed to be around other dogs at certain times (very supervised times), enough so that they behaved and didn't feel the need to react every time a yappy poodle or something got in their grill.
Sorry, but I stand by what I said earlier. Chalking something like this up to "oh well, dogs will be dogs" is just, well... stupid. And typical of a lot of apathetical dog owners, many of whom think they know what they're doing when it comes to training but really don't.
The big dog in this case chews a small dog in half because of a butt sniff? Please. Butt sniffing is a natural thing dogs do. That dogs reaction shows there's something wrong, in either it's training or lack therof, or in the home environment, or both. Either way the authorities do have the right to go in and take the dog and have it put down for aggression.
If it had chewed up an infant we wouldn't even be debating this.