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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the biter owner doesn't immediately offer to pay, sue in small claims or call animal control and have the dog put down for public safety. Or both. [/quote]
Yeah, that's not a thing. You can't 'have the dog put down' .  The only danger to public safety I see here is rampant ignorance. [/quote]

Yep. For better or worse, you can have a dog who kills 40 other dogs, but unless they touch a human its not a threat to public safety. Animals are just considered to be property like a chair or a table, so the biter dog is the equivalent of a tenant who scratches your floors. [/quote]

The reason for this has been explained, at length, upthread: The dog isn't responsible for the bite. The person responsible for the dog is responsible for securing their animal(s).

So when there's a bite incident, we don't just kill the dog that bit. We have to look at who was doing what, and where the humans responsible are, and try to figure out if the dog is truly a liability, or if the dog was mishandled, or if the dog who got bit was actually the one out-of-place (in which case, do we fine their owner, or...?).

Dogs are not responsible for their behavior. They're dogs. HUMANS are responsible for the dogs in their care and for keeping same under their control. [/quote]

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