4 pit bulls kill a 1 year old boy!

Both, the dogs should be trained, and the father has to be careful. The father should be put to jail, and the dog put to sleep

they need to be killed off

it's the owners responsibility. any breed of dog can be a good family pet, if raised correctly, by an owner that understands and respects the dog for what it is. the fact is, no small child should ever be left unnattended with ANY breed of dog. large or small. in fact, small dogs are far more likely to bite, but understandably, the damage from a small dogs bite is often less devastating. I mean, my cousin has a scar on her chin from where she was attacked by a Welsh terrier. had she been attacked in the same way by a larger dog, she might not have survived it. it wouldn't mean the bigger dog was more agressive than the smaller dog, as it would have been behaving in exactly the same way. just that it's bigger and stronger. when you have a dog you take responsibility for that dogs instincts, behaviour, and for being a confident and reliable pack leader to that dog, so it can live a happy and comfortable life without endangering itself or others. and to be a pack leader to a big dog isn't about strength or agression, but about being a leader in your head. violence to a large dog will only make them dangerous. it's the owners fault. he failed his dogs as a leader, and he failed his child as a parent. 5 innocent lives lost because one person wasn't up to the job they'd taken on.

Animals are just that. So I expect animals to do things that are natural to them. Such as form a pack and hunt. You can't blame the dogs. If you let them go in the wild they would have done the same thing. However I do feel that it is the owner of the dogs and the owner of the child's fault. We know this sort of thing can happen. If people would pay more attention to their kids it may not have happened. The same goes to the owner of the dogs.

I think it was the father's fault. Our neighbor has 2 pits and they are sweet as can be with her kids and us. Just not with strangers. It depends on how the dog was raised/trained. I would never have had my small child with dogs anyway. I always had mine in my arms around dogs. It averted problems, I'm sure. :)

I think it's the father's fault ( I assume he's the owner of the pits). Way too many times do people point the finger at the dogs and that's absurd. It's RARE that a dog just changes and goes against it's family. Pit Bull,Chow or any other type of "killer" dog you can think of. Of all cases, I've seen here in my own town. The dogs were mistreated in some form and fashion by the owners, were taught that way by the OWNERS or was mistreated by the stranger child. When we lived in another section of town - I had quite a few dogs. Wolf Hybrids, Pit Bull Crosses and All Around Mutts. If my pit cross would of tore into someone, it would of have been my fault because I trained her to hate EVERYONE that walked onto the yard that she did not know but she never once nipped or tried to bite any of the family. My wolf-hybrid was always being bothered by kids walking home after school and it was to the point to where she started chasing them and biting at their ankles. She never done harm for parents to be concerned but she put the fear in the children. I still have the wolf-hybrid and where we live now; no one messes with her but the cats. lol. Well I didn't mean to turn this into a story, just ranting and what not. lol. Have a great day all.