3 Great Danes wow...
I don’t even know what to say other than 6 years old is too young to be walking around without an adult.
Yeah. Too much can go wrong these days to let little kids be out on their own... And, even if the dad still decided to let him walk over to play with a friend, at minimum should have checked to make sure there was someone there.
This easily could have turned into a missing child story instead of a dog attack.
In all of his books recounting his decades as an English country vet, james Herriot said that the only time he ever felt truly threatened by a dog was when he inadvertently got between a female great dane and her newborn puppies.