Post by Kimmikins on Sept 9, 2014 7:31:17 GMT
News story here
Remember the 4 year old girl, Lexi Branson, who was mauled to death by a dog that her mother had rescued a few weeks before? This story details more about what happened - the poor girl died of facial injuries, but the dog also prevented her from breathing during the attack.
Apparently the dog, Mulan, got up and just stared at Lexi, and when her mum "tapped her on the bum and told the dog no" that's when Mulan leapt for Lexi. That's some powerful dog body-language there, it must have been a pretty scary sight to see.
What would you do if faced with that situation, would you know what the dog was about to do?
In addition to this, the dog had passed through multiple owners in the previous years, and the previous owner ahd only had it for 3 months before calling the warden pretending it was a stray so that it would be taken away. The dog was also up for rehoming with a notice saying that it shouldn't be rehomed with toddlers, and required a home without children.
Which begs the question - why did the shelter allow the mother to adopt it when they knew she had a young child...and why did the mum adopt it knowing that the advice was against it being rehomed with children?
It's all so tragic.
Remember the 4 year old girl, Lexi Branson, who was mauled to death by a dog that her mother had rescued a few weeks before? This story details more about what happened - the poor girl died of facial injuries, but the dog also prevented her from breathing during the attack.
Apparently the dog, Mulan, got up and just stared at Lexi, and when her mum "tapped her on the bum and told the dog no" that's when Mulan leapt for Lexi. That's some powerful dog body-language there, it must have been a pretty scary sight to see.
What would you do if faced with that situation, would you know what the dog was about to do?
In addition to this, the dog had passed through multiple owners in the previous years, and the previous owner ahd only had it for 3 months before calling the warden pretending it was a stray so that it would be taken away. The dog was also up for rehoming with a notice saying that it shouldn't be rehomed with toddlers, and required a home without children.
Which begs the question - why did the shelter allow the mother to adopt it when they knew she had a young child...and why did the mum adopt it knowing that the advice was against it being rehomed with children?
It's all so tragic.
