100% the bolded. Keeping animals separate from one another initially and then eventually facilitating a slow, supervised introduction is one of the first things the shelter I volunteer at discusses with all fosters and adopters. The only way the rescue could be remotely on the hook for anything here is *maybe* if they failed to properly train their foster volunteers. And even that is minor compared to the responsibilities of the owner to train their dog (and warn people of possible reactive and/or biting behavior) and, mostly, the foster to properly handle multiple dogs in her home that don't know one another. This went off the rails the moment she agreed to watch the relative's dog while she had a foster when she had no plan in place to keep them away from one another. |
I would say dog owner. |
Without details you can't say that pp |
You don't know that they put the dogs together on purpose. We haven't been given that detail. |
From the OP: "relative's dog attacked foster dog out of the blue" If you're not actively preventing the dogs from having contact, this can happen. Dogs weren't separated. They were in proximity to each other such that an attack could happen "out of the blue", which strongly suggests one or both dogs weren't properly supervised, let alone separated. They didn't actively separate them on purpose. The quoted text doesn't happen when both dogs are properly separated and supervised. Sitter's fault. Sitter's responsibility to fix. |