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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The dog owner, IMO.  Your pet does something, it's your responsibility.

Dog needs to be reported to animal control as well.[/quote]

Absent further detail re: the circumstances, this is stupidly oversimplified. If I put my pet in someone else's care, they're responsible for what happens to my pet, and also potentially liable. [/quote]

If your pet acts aggressively, it's your responsibility.

I have personally been bitten by a dog for the family I babysat for, there was no provocation and nothing I could have done in that moment to prevent getting bitten.

If a dog attacks another dog without provocation or warning there was nothing the person watching the dog could have done.[/quote]
There is no such thing as attacking without provocation/ out of the blue. Sounds like there are many people on here who do not understand dog behaviour and should not be owners if you believe stuff like this. Unless your dog is cujo, there are always signs. If you ignore them and an animal gets hurt, that’s your fault as the supervising human.[/quote]

There are usually signs over time but not immediately.  The owners would be the ones to notice patterns of behavior and had a duty to warn someone watching the dog.  The idea that someone babysitting a dog should be able to anticipate behavior immediately from someone else's dog is completely unrealistic.

It is also 100% on the owners to notice and train out aggressive behavior.  [b]Someone caring for a dog for a couple days does not have the experience with the dog to recognize its individual warning signs and certainly doesn't have time to train out aggression.[/b][/quote]

Maybe not, but someone accepting responsibility for a dog should know how to handle a dog. The warning signs are fairly generic, and standard steps to avoid conflict, like not introducing a dog you don't know well to another dog (you also don't know well) are simple and straightforward. You can do a LOT by simply avoiding situations that are likely sources of aggressive behavior, like introductions. And if you don't know well enough to know that, you're not ready to be responsible for a dog as a sitter or an owner.

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