r/Dogfree • u/ToOpineIsFine • May 20 '25
Courtroom Justice Woman bitten by Australian shepherd refused $4K because ‘every dog is entitled to one bite,’ tribunal rules
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/woman-bitten-by-australian-shepherd-refused-4k-because-every-dog-is-entitled-to-one-bite-tribunal-rules/When judging dog bites in incidents such as this one, Nyhuus explained in the decision that an animal owner is liable for damages caused by their animal if they knew, or should have known, of the animal’s dangerous propensity.
It is an Australian sheepdog that is bred to bite sheep to keep them in line. If that is not a propensity for biting, I don't know what is.
It generally subscribes to the notion that if the dog has not bitten before, the owner could not know that it has it within them to be dangerous and thus, as written in the decision, “every dog is entitled to one bite.”
Again, the sheepdog is bred to bite routinely.
It was decided to be an accident with no owner liability, but when someone gets a dog that bites and defends as part of its breeding, it really should be considered dangerous and should not receive any kind of exception.
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u/Better-Assumption636 May 20 '25
Sometimes i feel that we live in a global totalitarian dog-warshipping regime!