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Old 03-01-2012, 11:21 AM   #147
Rerun
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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger View Post
This dog needs to die. The fact it doesn't know what it did is important. That means that it is not less likely to do this again in the future because it doesn't know that it has done something wrong in the first place. It can't be told to not do that again.

Any wild animal that attacks a human is put down. Bear, mountain lion, dog, gerbil etc. These animals cannot have their behavior modified through rehabilitation like a human. They can't be told that killing is wrong. For that very reason the dog must be put down.
You make it sound like a dog is essentially a dangerous wild animal and thus is a ticking time bomb that could explode at any given moment.

The dog does not need to die. It was placed in an environment and circumstances where a tragic accident was a possibility. Change his environment and chances are virtually nil that this will ever happen again.

Killing the dog solves nothing other than your desire for revenge upon this animal... even though, by all accounts, the infants death was accidental.
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