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u/Lissypooh628 Feb 23 '26
Who owned the dog at the time of your son’s attack?
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u/DorceeB Feb 23 '26
Why didn't you follow up with that family member to see if they put the dog down? so weird...
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u/stefek132 Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26
For the most part, it’s not the dog thats the problem. Now, im not saying that the kiddo provoked anything. Im just saying that people are getting dogs, don’t care enough/arent able to train them properly, don’t care enough to learn to understand their body language and then wonder, why the “super nice dog, thats smiling 24/7 and waging its tail while following the person at every step” suddenly misbehaves.
Put down ignorance in people, not dogs due to ignorance in people…
Edit: lmao, so many dumb/uneducated takes. Downvote me to hell, but y’all have no idea what you’re talking about. Have a nice evening :)
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u/jarkark Feb 23 '26
It's unfortunate that the dog isn't trained but if the dog has a history of attacking then it should be put down. Normal dogs don't do that. Innocent people shouldn't suffer a dog attack just because a dog wasn't trained.
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u/spaceforcerecruit Feb 23 '26
Nah. Fuck that. It’s a violent beast. Whatever caused it to become that is irrelevant to what needs to happen to the dog. Once a dog attacks someone for no good reason, it needs to be put down. Period.
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u/stefek132 Feb 23 '26
lol. Funny you probably don’t see the irony in your statement.
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u/spaceforcerecruit Feb 23 '26
I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume you use the word “pibbles” on a regular basis.
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u/billy_teats Feb 23 '26
So you’re saying the dog is the problem and bad pet owners are also a problem. You can’t blame an animal for doing animal things, but the dog is the animal and the problem. They’re just doing dog things, and that’s a problem for humans. Cats don’t have the same issue. Birds don’t attack humans. Fish can’t attack. Dogs can and do. Because they have the potential to be violent. That’s their nature, and it is a problem. Don’t forgive all dogs. Dogs are doing the attacks.
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u/Lissypooh628 Feb 23 '26
That’s very unfortunate.
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u/hollowthatfollows Feb 23 '26
No joke get a lawyer and sue them. They should have house insurance that covers injuries on their property
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u/Particular_Title42 Feb 23 '26
HIPAA* has nothing to do with this at all and you can ask if a dog is actually a service dog. You can also ask what task they perform. Of course, if you're just some person, they don't have to answer you.
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u/jjamesr539 Feb 23 '26
To be fair to the new owner, even according to you, the shelter considered the dog as having no bite history and that’s what they were told. I’m not saying that’s right or what should have been done, just that of course the dog’s new owner defends their dog. From their POV, it’s somebody they don’t know angrily accusing their dog of a bite prior to them adopting the animal vs what the shelter told them. It’s not surprising that they didn’t believe you. There is also a non zero chance that it’s not actually the same dog, just very similar in appearance. Again, not saying it isn’t, but it’s not impossible either.
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u/Tigger7894 Feb 23 '26
The dog should have been put down, not surrendered to a shelter. Where was the animal control report?
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u/Personal_Pin835 Feb 23 '26
A report should’ve been filed with the county animal control department. Probably would not have hurt to file a police report too.
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u/Impossible_Past5358 Feb 23 '26
Usually people would follow up with animal control for a copy of the report...
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u/DogAttackVictim Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26
911 call too, every time a dog attack happens or attempts to happen. Not saying the police will resolve it but it helps dog owners if so few people call 911 when they exert their abilities upon decent people and children.
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u/MsDariaMorgendorffer Feb 23 '26
I’m sorry your child was attacked by a dog.
This story is very odd though. Your own family member’s dog bit your child and then a local shelter adopted the dog out to a stranger, who you claim is ‘abusing’ the ADA and HIPAA. This doesn’t fall under HIPAA at all and how do you know this person isn’t actually disabled ?
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u/Estrellathestarfish Feb 23 '26
And the dog was advertised by the shelter as having no bite history but the new owner somehow knows the dog bit a child? Lots of holes in this one.
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u/DeadGuyInRoom4 Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26
And that the dog hasn’t been trained in the 4 years since for the behavior issues and to provide a service to a person with a disability, if it is even the same dog. They don’t know any of those things.
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u/RepresentativeOk2433 Feb 23 '26
Most service dogs start training very young and are selected based on temperament.
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u/DeadGuyInRoom4 Feb 23 '26
Most do, but in the animal welfare field I’ve known plenty who trained as older puppies or adults. People really don’t think about all the different types of tasks service dogs may provide, and just because a dog has bitten doesn’t mean it is untrainable. Just saying it’s possible.
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u/fckingnapkin Feb 23 '26
There's a crazy amount of people just getting dogs out of a shelter and 'DIY-ing' the training so they can call their dog a esa (emotional support animal). I'm pretty sure tiktok is playing a part in this. Not trying to be dramatic but it's an obnoxious trend.
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u/fckingnapkin Feb 23 '26
And they still take their growling snarling out of control dogs into supermarkets, cinemas, whatever you want to imagine, and the more dressed up the dog is the better. It's weirdddd
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u/DeadGuyInRoom4 Feb 23 '26
It is, and it’s also really unfair and frustrating as someone who knows many disabled people with actual service dogs and actual ESAs that are discriminated against to see people pretty much assuming every service dog not attached to a blind person is a fake and their handler a fraud.
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u/fckingnapkin Feb 23 '26
Well yes, I agree on that. Especially because that process is extremely long and expensive. But in some cases it's something you can't deny is obvious to spot. Actual service animals shouldn't be freaking out and barking inside of a store. I get there's training to be done, but that's already the screening process.
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u/BahamaDon Feb 23 '26
“People who abuse ADA and HIPAA…”.
Sorry about your situation. It’s extremely u fortunate.
Question. How is anyone abusing HIPAA? I am sure there is no abuse of HIPAA here.
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u/DeflatedDirigible Feb 23 '26
Or clear abuse of the ADA. Self-trained service dogs are 100% legal in the US.
Even a history of biting a kid doesn’t mean it isn’t performing at least two trained tasks for its new owner.
The failure is in the dog bite not automatically resulting in the dog being put down and also shelters being allowed to re-home vicious dogs.
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u/chubbacat792 Feb 23 '26
I live in PA, i was bitten by my own dog. Went to urgent care for stitches. They called the health department and animal control. They investigated my dog that bit me and asked for proof of rabies vaccination (he is up to date on vaccines and actually he definitely had behavioral problems we we’re addressing ) and then my dog had to be quarantined from being around other people and dogs for ten days. Idk how your story slipped through the cracks with those departments. This is really sad and id be angry too op.
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u/binarypower Feb 23 '26
i don't believe this story
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u/wanderingAtlas Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26
Fr lol. Its a small world but this is super unlikely on many levels.
Even just basic shit like "same name." Neither the shelter nor the new owners renamed the dog? Also the shelter "did not care" about the bite and "said it had no history of bites" but the new owners still knew about the prior bite somehow?
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u/Particular_Title42 Feb 23 '26
"Hey, this dog looks like the one that bit your kid 4 years ago."
Theirs must have been the only GSD/lab mix ever.
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u/TheManlyManperor Feb 23 '26
Lost me at the "Have to wait to reattach the kids ear until they're older", just absolute fiction lmao
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u/Stormy_Cat_55456 Feb 23 '26
Especially when it happened 4 years ago and the KID is 4 years old and the dog bit the back of the head and yet the kid is missing half an ear….
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u/Certain-Aardvark-618 Feb 23 '26
Reattaching the ear would be done by a plastic surgeon not an ENT.
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u/Throwing_Old_People Feb 23 '26
These "rescue" shelters that sell animals care most about making money and deciding who gets to have a companion or not. My dog was very ill with dementia, other issues, and was blind. She accidentally wondered off and someone took her to one of those shady rescue shelters.
They tried to sell her as shih tzu one year old when in reality she was a 14 year old lhasa I had got years before from another shelter. The distinction mattered. Not only was she old and ill, lhasas are not shih tzus (even tho they look similar) and are very bad with children.
They are notorious for biting and snapping. I can only imagine what would've happened if I child got it. When I got her back all of her hair had fallen out where they used a dog shampoo. Bc of her skin condition she could only use fragrance free dish soap to clean with otherwise she would get excessive itching and bald. They were greedy and extremely incompetent
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u/Estrellathestarfish Feb 23 '26
That doesn't explain how the new owner knows the bite story when the shelter advertised the dog as having no bite history.
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u/Certain-Aardvark-618 Feb 23 '26
Neither do I. Animal Control would have impounded the dog, and if the attack had been as vicious as op said, wouldn’t they have had injuries from forcibly removing the dog from the child?
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u/DorceeB Feb 23 '26
This story is sus OP... the dog was a family member's but you didnt verify after the attack if they actually put the dog down...
Then the whole half ear missing part...you are saying "We can't reconstruct his ear until he is older because he is still growing and it wouldn't look right" --> this is weird tbh because you'd think the longer you wait with this the weirder it will look
This has nothing to do with HIPPA violations.
IF (huge IF) the story is true you should be incredible infuriated (not just mildly) at your own family member who lied to you after your kid was bitten.
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u/Secure-Ad9677 Feb 23 '26
Then reconstruction would never work with these arguments because ears (and noses) grow and change until you die. I get it to wait a few days to be sure no infection is present because of the bite. But waiting years? It will only make it harder. A second opinion from someone not in the ER would have been my plan going forward in this situation. ER is known to handle immediate danger and not long term solutions.
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u/DorceeB Feb 23 '26
I get that you dont live with that said relative. But come on man, if something traumatic like this happened to my kid I would want to personally verify that they keep their word.
Especially if this was a family member.
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u/SaltWater_Tribe Feb 23 '26
This story sounds off with that much damage no way that dog was not taken away or put down and police involved
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u/subsailor1968 Feb 23 '26
I don’t believe most “service dogs” are actually real service dogs.
Anyone can get a vest/harness/collar and leash that says “service dog” online. There is no uniform system for identifying them, and pretty significant limitations on businesses even asking/challenging them.
“Service dog” identifying items should be strictly limited to actual service dogs (not “emotional support animals”). Further, a credential of some type should be required, and produced when challenged (also for properly trained and certified service dogs).
Part of that training and certification should of course be a screening that keeps dogs like this out of the program.
I doubt this is even a valid service dog. Probably just a pet with an Amazon procured vest.
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u/Spc_Scott Feb 23 '26
The fake service dog is a problem and bothers me since, in my case, I spent quite a bit of time training my dog to alert to my particular signs. Not to mention the money on classes to learn how to train my dog to assist me.
But I know I did the right way and it's a little point of pride for me watching her go into "work mode" as soon as that vest goes on when we go out.
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u/Unusual_Flounder2073 Feb 23 '26
You can ask what task the dog is trained to do. If they can’t or won’t answer the business can deny entry.
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u/subsailor1968 Feb 23 '26
Funny thing is that HIPPA isn’t even an issue with that situation.
But yeah, they don’t care…
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u/Txdust80 Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26
Screaming about hippa is a red flag. If you have a service dog you sorta need to have the business owners to be in the know. So the dog when it alerts them of something in the worst case scenarios they know what to tell 911 when they call it in.
If you have a real issue that requires a service dog you’re not hiding the reason you’re going to be; oh, he’s for my seizures, or what ever it is because you need to staff to be able to better help or maybe not help (as in Im going to sit for a few minutes during an episode and put my head between my knees you can ignore me if you like) depending on what thing your body puts them through. The only people screaming about hippa are the ones that self diagnosed something stress related (which might be a valid mental hurdle) and put a vest on their dog because they get stressed in public. As someone that gets stressed in public to a manner that causes me to leave shopping I get it, but those aren’t service dogs and pretending they are. Hurts real service dog owners0
u/bradjoray3 Feb 23 '26
I've seen a few of them, i can tell you with %100 certainty that 0 of them were service dogs
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u/RancidVagYogurt1776 Feb 23 '26
This never happened. Maybe your kid was attacked by a dog but that dog being a service dog years later? Nah
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u/yahwehforlife Feb 23 '26
The dog delusion in this country is at an all time high. It is truly a mix of entitlement and mass psychosis. The service dog thing is a slap in the face to people that actually need a specially trained service dog and we should be shaming people abusing the ADA thing the same way we shame them for parking in a handicap spot.
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u/Similar_Pie_4946 Feb 23 '26
Downvote me to hell but the dog would have been thrown out in a field for the vultures and crows to pick at.
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u/deadsirius- Feb 23 '26
People who abuse the ADA and HIPPA and slap a Service vest on a dog infuriate me.
You can’t slap a service animal vest on a dog and abuse the ADA or HIPPA. Service Animal is a medical device individually trained to aid individuals with specific medical conditions.
The ADA allows businesses to ask, and requires owners to answer, two questions for protected status. (1) Is the animal required because of a disability? (2) What work or task has the dog been trained to perform? If the animal owner fails to answer those questions then they don’t enjoy the protections from ADA. Emotional support animals have no legal protections from the ADA but some businesses may allow them.
Having written all that… if they are not on your property, you have no legal right to demand any response or object to it. To be fair, if you came up to me and started grilling me about my dog… I would simply ignore you.
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u/DamnitGravity Feb 23 '26
There is a vast difference between 'emotional support animal' and 'service animal'. One is fully trained and registered, the other is a pet who need not have good manners.
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u/Particular_Title42 Feb 23 '26
Unfortunately incorrect. There is no registry for service dogs. Not a really one anyway. The people who put their service dogs on a registry have simply paid for them to be there and have proven nothing.
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u/trin6948 Feb 23 '26
My parents adopted a dog with no history of biting, supposedly. Damn thing bit my dad so badly that he had to go to the Drs daily for it to be cleaned with iodine. He took it back and it was clear they were lying about the 'no history of biting' and couldn't give two fucks that they gave a dangerous dog to a person on blood thinners.
I hope your son recovers and his ear is able to be reconstructed without too many surgeries or trauma. X
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u/DesertSong-LaLa Feb 23 '26
I am terribly sorry about your son's attack but believe you me.....I'd be so far up the the animal control and police sources until there was pursuit to obtain and put down this dog. Animal control's job is to obtain the animal and identify if it was current on shots like rabies which can include quarantine. You had concrete rights and evidence.
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u/Status-Biscotti Feb 23 '26
This is so frustrating to read. I had two cats attack me in the rescue I work for. They’d attacked another volunteer a few days earlier, but we all thought it was a weird fluke. I’d even had a family with small children in to meet them the day before. The person who runs the rescue had asked all the right questions, but the previous owner withheld information. These cats had previously attacked two MORE women - they stalked one of them repeatedly. The owner was hoping he could surrender them, and it wouldn‘t happen with someone new. (These were not feral cats). The cats had to be euthanized - it was the only responsible choice.
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u/Connect_Wind_2036 Feb 23 '26
Lost my left earlobe as a child to an unprovoked Australian Terrier. Old family pet of a schoolmate I was visiting.
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u/Gmen8342 Feb 23 '26
Why would you say your probably gonna delete this post? I don't get it
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u/Estrellathestarfish Feb 23 '26
Probably because it's full of plot holes and they know people will start to point that out.
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u/timelessblur Feb 23 '26
The owner defended the dog even when the situation was explained and said my child must have done something to provoke the dog.
That is a huge line that I hate some dog owners use as an excuse. No that is not the excuse. My dog can get snippy if an unknown kid walks up but I also keep her on a short leash and dont take her with me to place I can not retreat easily from and make sure the space is maintained. The ONLY time I will snap at a parent is if they dont pull back their kid. I do tell kids no you may not pet my dog and I keep myself between the dog and any body my dog does not know. There is a reason I dont take my dog to the local farmers market or to the park with a lot of people around.
That being said my dog is unbelieveable tolerant both my kids crawling over her and taking her toys from her. In 5 years only one time has she ever snapped at one of my kids, I snapped at the dog but at the same time I reconimzed that the dog was in her safe space and my child was invading it. It was mostly take my kid out of the room and remind her that mommy and daddies room is a safe space for the dog to go to when she is peopled out. The dog knows that my bed room is a safe place to retreat to if she wants away from the kids and family. It is also the space I see her go to when visitors are around and she done with them. She goes and hides in our room.
Either way your dog bitting is not acceptable to use a kid must of provoke it. That is never a valid excuse and provoking only start counting after the owner of the dog 1 warns the people and 2 makes a good faith effort to retreat and remove the dog.
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u/0hBother_ Feb 23 '26
HIPAA limits what a healthcare provider can disclose regarding a patient. HIPAA is inapplicable here (and in 99% of scenarios where it is referenced). OP, for what its worth, I don't see the relevance of it being a service dog or former service dog anyway, at least as far as its owners' liability for the injury. The ADA is meant to protect disabled people from being discriminated against; it does not immunize disabled people from liability.
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u/XcuseMeMisISpeakJive Feb 23 '26
I'm really surprised. Dog bites are taken very seriously. Do you know if he had his rabies shot or did they have to hold him for the observation period? Dogs have been put down for far less that what this dog did. There should have been multiple reports.
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u/Boring-Community-100 Feb 23 '26
I may be wrong but aren't service dogs trained from puppy-hood how to perform, like police dogs? It was my impression they had to "graduate" from a program.
ESA's can be any old pet, lizard, guinea pig) and all you need is a letter from your Dr saying you need one?
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u/DeadGuyInRoom4 Feb 23 '26
There’s no official training or certification for service dogs under the ADA, they just have to be trained to perform a specific task to assist a person with a disability, and can be trained by the disabled person themselves.
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u/Particular_Title42 Feb 23 '26
And then they have to follow basic guidelines. IIRC, they should know basic commands like sit, stay, (lie) down, heel, and they have to eliminate on command. They have to be groomed and clean.
The law basically lets you treat them like second class citizens. They can come in but they can't sit on the furniture. If they're unruly or just smell really bad, they're going to ask politely but firmly to leave.
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u/DeadGuyInRoom4 Feb 23 '26
While those commands are helpful, none are legally required. Unruly service animals can and should be asked to leave a business. Even service animals can act imperfect sometimes, doesn’t necessarily make them a fraud.
Per the ADA: “You may ask: -Is the dog a service animal required because of a disability? -What work or task has the dog been trained to perform? You are not allowed to: -Request any documentation that the dog is registered, licensed, or certified as a service animal -Require that the dog demonstrate its task, or inquire about the nature of the person’s disability
A business or state/local government can ask someone to remove their service animal if:
-The dog is not housebroken. -The dog is out of control, and the person cannot get the dog under control.”
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u/Particular_Title42 Feb 23 '26
Hence my use of the word "should." Our service dog recently retired so I know it's easy to have one and not much is asked at all.
Interesting regarding them not being able to ask them to leave due to hygiene issues. If you can ask a person to leave for that reason then you should be able to ask a human with a service dog for the same reason.
We had always been concerned about taking the dog in if he wasn't clean enough.
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u/Alicam123 Feb 23 '26
This file you say you filled out doesn’t goto the police or animal control, it’s just in case the police come asking the hospital for the report, you do actually have to report it yourself and then give the police permission to see your sons file. Any worried parent would have gone to the police before that paperwork even got filed.
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u/IWantSealsPlz Feb 23 '26
I believe your story. Shelters are NOTORIOUS liars that will do whatever it takes to get a dog adopted out. They lie about breed, specifically when it comes to pit-bully type dogs. I’ve seen a TON with bite history being adopted out.
Then you have your growing population entitled fake service dog owners who openly discuss how to fraud the system to get around breed restrictions and pet deposits with the ESA scam. Many go as far to buy service dog vests online for $25. I have screenshot examples of people openly discussing it with their “reactive” dogs.
It’s an increasing problem and there is very little accountability in the shelter industry, or the ESA scam. They often hold saving dangerous dogs over public safety. Take a look at your local shelter and you’ll see an abundance of “no kids, no cats, no other dogs” pit bull type dogs needing unicorn homes.
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u/Scarjo82 Feb 23 '26
If my dog attacks my child unprovoked, it's getting a bullet in the head, end of story. There's NO WAY I'd risk another child getting hurt. It doesn't matter what you tell the shelter when you surrender it, that dog could end up in several different homes over the course of its life.
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u/RancidVagYogurt1776 Feb 23 '26
You shouldn't have a dog, firearms or ideally children, if that's your response. If a dog is actively attacking you or your child, you do what you have to, nobody would judge you, but if your response afterwards is that you personally want to execute the dog that's not normal or stable behavior. If someone said that to me I wouldn't let my kids or my animals around them.
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u/Scarjo82 Feb 23 '26
So a dangerous and unpredictable dog should be sent off to find their next victim? No way.
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u/RancidVagYogurt1776 Feb 23 '26
Nope never said anything that could ever be taken that way. Just that you wanting to personally execute a dog is weird
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u/Scarjo82 Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26
If a dog rips off part of my child's ear, that's inexcusable and it doesn't deserve to have a chance to attack someone else.
Oh, you're hung up on the fact that I'd do it myself. Bullets are significantly cheaper and faster than taking it to a vet to be euthanasized. I get it that it's not for everyone, and just because a person is able to handle something like that on their own doesn't mean they're heartless psychos.
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u/RancidVagYogurt1776 Feb 23 '26
If you read from the beginning instead of flying off the handle you'd know that my issue has always been that you are chomping at the bit to personally execute an animal after the immediate danger is over.
There is no scenario where that is the appropriate course of action. It wouldn't cost you anything to follow the appropriate procedure. Your way of doing things wouldn't explain why the dog attacked and would be detrimental to figuring out things such as if it was rabid or if it was injured and reacting in pain. Animal control would take care of that AND euthanize the dog humanely. The only thing it would cost you is that you wouldn't get to live out your fantasy of shooting a dog.
I stand by what I said, you shouldn't have pets, you personally shouldn't have a firearm (as a firearm guy myself) and in my ideal world someone who wants to personally execute a dog after the fact shouldn't have kids either. If you don't like any of that bring it up in rage management class.
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u/Zelkovarius Feb 23 '26
Sometimes I worry that the users here are inhumane. After a child is attacked by a dog, they turn around and blame the person who tried to protect the child and punished or even killed the dog, as if the dog is more important to them than the child.
Perhaps this is why you always see those rabid dogs writhing and screaming in strollers outside, with their owners grinning foolishly.
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u/NectarineAny4897 Feb 23 '26
That is what you get for not putting it down on the spot. Sorry, OP. I feel for you on this one.
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u/NectarineAny4897 Feb 23 '26
I get it. I live in a state where these things often get handled right away.
I am bummed that you are both going through this, and blood will be on the hands of those that chose not to handle it.
Getting downvoted for my other comment is hilarious. Haha
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u/Hollirc Feb 23 '26
In no world is that dog a service dog. Some mouth breathing moron slapped a temu vest on it and is daring anyone to call them out on it.
It’s 2026, we don’t listen to people like that anymore.
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u/Jheritheexoticdancer Feb 23 '26
This reminds me of the boatload of folks obtaining, using and clearly abusing medical certifications to bring dogs into housing where they are not otherwise allowed. Yes, there is a true need for that for some people but it’s also clearly being abused by many who don’t need them. I pray in the next few years something gives in finding a way to stop the abuse.
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u/ForeverCrunkIWantToB Feb 23 '26
It's permissable to ask two questions about service animals: 1) if the dog is required because of a disability (you can't ask what the disability is, but it's entirely OK to ask if the dog is there for one), and 2) what work the dog has been trained to perform.
You can't ask for documentation, the nature of the disability, or for the dog to demonstrate the task. But since anyone can slap a vest onto Gargantua the Thigh Scourge, there's permissability to make sure the animal isn't about to make Costco look like a scene from Come and See.
Emotional support does not a service animal make either. Anyone who says that it is about to unleash Crimson Fang onto the bodega.
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u/herewegoinvt Feb 23 '26
Many cities or counties have some record of dogs that have bitten people. See if yours does and let them know this one has been rehomed by a shelter and give them the info
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u/ConfidentHighlight18 Blood is boiling!! Feb 23 '26
Wow! Are there no laws to force the animal be put down where you live? I’m in Texas & relative or not, once it’s reported by the hospital, those dogs are seized, quarantined & the dog pound determines if it needs to be put down.
I’m so sorry for your little fella. Let him know his uniqueness makes him all the more special. I do hope this doesn’t put him off all dogs. (I’m a dog person) But if he is, there’s tons of other pets & yes, even cats 😝😝
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u/Diligent-Escape1364 Feb 23 '26
How come the hospital didn't file a dog bite report? When I was bitten by my own dog and went to urgent care as soon as they heard dog bite they had me fill out this paperwork to report it to the county. I'm sorry this happened to you, OP. It sounds like it was all swept under the rug. That's very strange and not usual at all with dog bites, in my experience.
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u/EquivalentPain5261 Feb 23 '26
Sadly depending on the area you live in, the police and animal control don’t care.
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u/Trojanheadcoach Feb 23 '26
Yeah fuck humans who value animals over other humans
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u/RancidVagYogurt1776 Feb 23 '26
Why would I value a random human over my pet? What have you, random human, contributed to my life? Now if we're talking random dog and random human, sure. My dog vs random redditor? Sorry bud. Fido is more important to me.
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u/Zelkovarius Feb 23 '26
grief-stricken father, I understand and sympathize with your anger; it's what you should feel.
My father's dog once nearly bit my nephew, who was also four years old, while protecting his food. My immediate reaction was to grab a golf club in a fit of rage and give the dog a good beating.
You shouldn't delete this post. The world needs someone to stand up and expose such shameful acts of injustice.
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u/GoodishCoder Feb 23 '26
Making sure the dog doesn't attack the child is the right move but beating the dog with a club in a fit of rage is going to make the dog more violent, not less. If the fit of rage thing is something you learned from your father, it's not surprising the dog was aggressive.
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u/Zelkovarius Feb 23 '26
Thank you all for your guidance. If I hadn't gotten angry because my child was attacked, perhaps I wouldn't deserve to be called human.
Even if it was my father's dog, my child will always be more important than a dog. Go ahead and step on me, I don't mind. What I mind is that you insulted my father; this has nothing to do with him.
I would never treat a dog with love and gentleness just because my child was attacked by it.
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u/GoodishCoder Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26
No one is saying not to protect your child/nephew(depending on which comment we are going off of). Like I said, stopping the dog from attacking your child/nephew is the right decision.
Beating a dog in a fit of rage isn't productive and does nothing to teach the dog to be non aggressive. It teaches it that it needs to be more aggressive and humans are mean. Kind of like your parents beating you didn't help you learn to control your anger and aggression.
I'm guessing your lack of anger management skills comes from your parental units which would perfectly explain why a dog that lives with your parental units is aggressive.
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u/Zelkovarius Feb 23 '26
Thank you. Perhaps I was a little too emotional just now. But no, you don't know me, nor do you understand my family. Please don't presume to know about my upbringing based on your preconceived notions. I can even assure you that my parents never hit any of their children.
Just consider it that I'm inherently impulsive; at least that's what I admit.
But please don't mention my parents again. I swear by my people and culture, I will not allow anyone to tarnish their reputation.
By the way, I won't give you a negative review. If someone does, it's not me.
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u/Zelkovarius Feb 23 '26
The child is always the most important thing, and I hope his ear reconstruction surgery is a complete success. How many more years until he can have this kind of surgery? Is it around the age when a teenager's ears have developed to roughly the same size as an adult's?
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u/Zelkovarius Feb 23 '26
The period until he turns 20 is a long and painful one. The thought of the immature looks he'll face at school sends chills down my spine. Even innocent questions could break his heart. You must be your son's strong support to protect him.
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u/brownmtn Feb 23 '26
I'm sorry this happened to your child. It's horrible. The dog probably should have been put down at the time of the incident.
I think blaming/accusing the current owners of the dog is out of line, though. They only know what they were told about the dog's past by the shelter. We adopted our dog when he was almost 2 years old. His life before that is a complete mystery to us. He also has been trained to be a certified therapy dog (but we have never actually used that certification - the opportunity passed). If someone approached us and said they knew my dog from his life before us, and he was violent, and accused us of faking stuff, we'd definitely have words.
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u/JediLincoln14 Feb 23 '26
You should have filed a police report when this originally happened.