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[quote=Anonymous] This happened to us, when we first got together we adopted an an insane practice baby from the pound;  we couldn’t have loved this animal more.  We had him for 8 years  and  One day while leaving he bit me in the leg and drew blood. 
 By this time we had our first child, he was just beginning to crawl and we did everything we could to keep them apart, nothing bad happened but we both walked around nauseous because we knew that what happened to me could easily happen to our toddler.

It was during Christmas week and we decided that we had to put him down – it wouldn’t be fair to bring him back to the pound or to push him off on someone, it was much more humane to just end it for him.   
A few days before New Year’s I gave him a hug before I went to bed as I had done every night for eight years except this time he bit me in the face three times.  I have scars on my four head and cheek;  they cover up really easily with hair and if I wear even a little bit of make up you can’t see them but I know that they are there.

Before we decided to put our dog down I read something and it hit me, it was somewhere online and it related to dangerous dogs and is very simply said that management always fails-  you can have locks, gates, procedures and all different protocols but one of them will fall short and the consequences could be disastrous.

It’s been 13 years  since we put the dog down and a few years ago we got a sweet lovable puppy who has grown to be the sweetest most amazing gentle dog ever but in the back of my mind I am always aware of what can happen for no apparent reason.  These are animals, they don’t think like us, they can’t reason like we can and they have outlets that we will never understand.

It is going to be absolutely gut wrenching to put your dog down but in time you will realize that you did the best thing for everyone concerned including the dog. Once enough time passes you can adopt another one but you will be a far better dog owner for having done this. [/quote]

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