This is awful.
I have volunteered to foster animals for the Humane Society and have volunteered to take dogs with behavioural problems. I'll first be checking on what liability I am responsible for before I take one home. I feel bad for the dog... it doesn't know better. There is no such thing as a bad dog, they just need time and training. But I'm not going to risk my financial well being on the hopes that the dog I am fostering doesn't somehow escape.
Having a dog slip out the door while you are coming in doesn't seem to be a $10,000 mistake. It's unfair all the way around. The other dog didn't deserve to be attacked and I feel for the other dog's owner. But I also feel for the person that was working hard with their dog to teach them proper behaviour only to have their life seriously impacted by the cost.
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