Since I cannot reply to Joen Chau, I'll reply here. I went to lookup the actual incident and here's what I learned. The children were at a friend of their parents. The owner had two dogs that were in the backyard. The owner told the kids that one of the dogs was nice, but the 1-year-old German Shepherd was mean and should be avoided. Unfortunately, the dog attacked the children immediately when the kids were allowed into the yard. Before anybody had time to react, the dog charged at the children, when the boy, Bridger, stepped between the dog and his sister, and yelled for her to run. Before the owner was able to pull the dog off the child, he had already torn at the boy's face with his teeth, and clawed at the boy's chest. The dog's owner offered to put the dog to sleep, but the children didn't want him to.

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I have had German Shepherds in the past. My two current dogs are a German Shepherd/livestock guardian dog mix and a Belgian Malinois (basically a German Shepherd on cocaine.) They can be the absolute sweetest dogs if raised well and socialized correctly. A 1-year-old GSD that ALREADY has a history of aggression and "being mean" is... sad, in a way. At 1, a large-breed dog is still a puppy somewhat and should be friendly and happy. I'm NOT excusing the dog or the breed (my neighbor's GSD recently bit my 80-year-old mother after the owner assured her that the dog was "friendly") but a 1-year-old GSD SHOULD be a snuggly, wiggly, happy, energetic adolescent. Unless the owners adopted it from an abusive situation, they failed that dog and they failed those children both.

Alright pls stop the hate I didn't know I'm wrong but if the dog has been aggressive in the past, wouldn't it have been reported?

Oh ok

Joen ... I guess I sort of know where you're coming from. I've seen children do a lot of horrible things to animals. But, we can't assume that every kid does such things, neither that this kid did, neither that this dog's reaction, if it were the case, was within the reasonably understandable. That boy looks like halfway eaten, then stitched together again. Even if it would have been self defense by the dog, it would have exceeded the acceptable by some order of magnitude.

You should have seen what a 6 year old did to my friends dog..... The random 6 year old walks up to my friends dog, a golden retriever. He is holding a stick and bashes the dog several times before we stopped him. The dog has small sticks in his legs and now is scared of small children.

No it can happen, just last week whilst looking after a baby pup with an abscess in its leg, maybe 9-11 inches long. So smol, I had to put him down to get the milk ready and my roomies kid just broke in and I walked into the room to him throwing the barely able to walk pup to the ground. I can’t look at the kid atm still

What's old enough to throw, is old enough to be thrown, just sayin...

No they couldn't. Great apes, don't react well to be darted and it takes A LOT more than you'd think as well as there's an extremely fine line between the darting and death (similar in humans to giving sedatives, very easy to give too much). Because of his behavior, they had to kill him.

Yep!

Replying to turk; No, a gorilla is not more important than a child.

Gorillas are endangered. Humans are not.

Right. And what do you think would have happened to the zoo that housed the rest of the endangered gorilla's if a child was allowed to be ripped apart.

Eh we're making more and more of em every day. Nature is no less important than us. In fact the whole place would be better off.

So do something about it, Michael None.

Worry not people seem intent on going DYI genocide all over the world. I'm just refusing to polish brass on the Titanic. I'd rather just sit here playing my fiddle as the world goes down.

Pneumonia can be caused by many bugs. Not all of them have a vaccine. It’s impossible to be completely immunized from pneumonia in today’s time. Do we have vaccines for pseudomonas? One of the bugs that causes pneumonia. Yes. Do we have a vaccine to completely prevent pneumonia. No. You can even get pneumonia from not breathing deeply enough after surgery. Your little alveoli stick together and collect fluid. No vaccine for that. Use those little breathing machines they give you!

I have chronic bronchitis and got the pneumonia vaccine for the first time last fall. It's the first time in 20 years I didn't get bronchitis.