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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had to put down a dog for BE. She ripped out the throat of our other dog, and we had small kids. I wasn't going to risk my kids getting hurt.

We did everything right, too. She was socialized, positive reinforcement training classes, everything.

The issue was that she was a breed that was bred to escalate aggression very quickly. So while most dogs would growl, bare teeth, etc to communicate, she would bypass all of those and jump straight to locking on another dog and tugging hard. You couldn't pry her off easily, either.

No rescue would touch her (and honestly, I wouldn't trust a rescue to convey how aggressive she actually was), the shelter said they euthanize aggressive dogs anyway. So we opted for BE.

Zero regrets. With young kids, it's not worth the risk, and I didn't have the money or bandwidth to train a highly aggressive dog who would likely have needed to be kept away from my kids at all times for the rest of her life. That would have been cruel to isolate her from everyone else.

People forget that for most of dog history, if a dog was aggressive, bit someone, killed the chickens, whatever, they were taken out back and shot. That helped keep certain traits out of the gene pool. That's literally how dogs were domesticated, you breed the ones with good traits and cull the ones with bad traits. [/quote]

I’m so sorry. I had to put a dog down for multiple bites. They were low number bites (quick snap and back off) but we couldn’t risk more and nothing we did improved the situation [/quote]

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