I am a huge dog lover, have 3 myself. My brother adopted a German Shepard, soon afterwards he was deployed to Afghanistan so I took her. She was great at first, but I still did not totally trust her, didn’t know her backround etc so I was extra watchful of her, we built her a kennel so she would not have access to the kids running around, I had my 3 boys and half of the neighborhood over all the time. After a while she became too protective and even though she was in a kennel, all it would take would be one accident, I could not deal with that. I wrote my brother and said she had to go, I could not take a chance with my kids or the others.....so she went.
That being said, this woman went to extreme measures to kill that dog. It was not in the heat of the moment. She had to break in and freaking take down a door!!!! I also don’t really believe their story. At the end it was all about money.
Exactly. If it was done in the moment, nobody would say a word. When you look at the stated facts in the story, it is a very different picture. I would have no problem taking a bat to an animal if it had my child or spouse by the leg.
I wouldn’t like it, but darn right I would willingly do it.
I am not even convinced the animal bit her child.
German Shepards tend to go a little extreme. Being very protective, as is my Cattle Dog, can be a problem.
As for the gal in the story, my assumption is that she is telling the truth. To be fair, given the rest of the story, she is probably a lying sack of dog-doo regarding the bitten 4 year old. Agree with you...this is about money and killing the dog was probably meant more as a threat to the in-laws. She goes away for a long time either way.
I volunteer for a German Shepherd rescue and there are certain ones that were not properly socialized. While they have improved in their behavior through training, we still designate them for adoption for certain situations, such as experienced owners only, no children, no other dogs or cats, etc.
For the most part once the dogs are adopted they have done well since the adopters are aware of the situation.