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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

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Animal control is less concerned about dog on dog aggression than many of the posters here seem to believe. Unless the dog is loose and attacking pets in their own yards or that are being walked on leash or there are intentionally staged dogfights, this isn't really an animal control issue. Two dogs residing in the same home on a temporary basis and confined within the bounds of that home behaved like dogs and had a scuffle resulting in nonfatal injuries to at least one dog.  No humans were injured. This is entirely predictable and on the human that should have been in charge.  Dogs don't get yoinked and put down for this. [/quote]

I grew up with lots of dogs and a dog biting another dog severely enough to have to visit an emergency vet is not "behaved like dogs".  That is well outside the norm for dog behavior.[/quote]
No,. really, dog on dog aggression isn't outside the norm. It is the entirely predictable result of people putting dogs together and expecting that it'll all be fine.[/quote]

Sounds like you have an aggressive dog you aren't dealing with.  People send dogs to dog daycare and dog parks all the time.[/quote]
No. I don't have an aggressive dog. You are attempting to deflect and that's a fail for you. You don't appear to understand dogs or their behaviors particularly well at all. Daycares and dog parks are the two locations outside of an organized fighting ring where dog fights are most likely to occur. Many trainers behaviorists  and vets will advise against them for just that reason.[/quote]

This. Every rescue and foster I've ever worked with (and, over a few decades, its a few) has specifically stated in the animal's contract that dogs are NOT to be taken to dog parks or allowed to run off-leash in anything other than a fenced backyard. Even that last part is dicey with a new dog, and definitely foolish with multiple dogs. My vets are also unequivocally opposed to dog parks, and have been.

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