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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]

This. [/quote]
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]
+1. You can have empathy for dogs without normalizing attacks.[/quote]
Except that is the ENTIRE problem here. Dog sitter failed to consider that the dogs would ever be anything but fine/docile and did not pay attention to what the dogs were actually doing.  You can't just throw up your hands and say 'there was nothing I could do' or ' it's just a bad dog' or whatever. YOU as the human are responsible and need to understand that yes, dogs can fight and take steps to prevent it. Good lord. Be smarter than your dog [/quote]

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