While Ezra was taking a nap in his crib, the family’s Husky that they owned for eight years attacked out of nowhere.
“And to just bring awareness that it could be any dog at any time. Completely unprovoked, no matter what the history is,” Chloe said.
…why the hell did the dog have unsupervised access to the baby
Most people don’t consider this to be a danger because it’s such a rare situation that it’s newsworthy when it happens.
It’s not actually that rare. I mean, the death part is more unusual, but Dogs bite kids for no good reason all the damn time. Dogs should not be allowed around children unsupervised, period. It doesn’t matter how many times “it’s been fine” - all it takes is once.
Nothing with free will that isn’t another human is a potential danger to a baby. There are obviously tons of pets that don’t and having watched a lot of animals be interact with children under extremely strict supervision and controlled conditions I do think most pets do understand what the baby is and wouldn’t hurt it you can never know how they will react. Huskies are really smart and temperamental from what i understand, it’s insane to leave one near a baby
I have a husky, he’s a giant lovable teddy bear made of fluff who is a giant coward in front of any sort of adversity. It’s hard to imagine him hurting anything intentionally. He plays with my 2 cats and hasn’t intentionally harmed them in any way.
But then, I’ve also seen him catch a squirrel and crush it’s skull right in front of me, just because.
Dogs are still animals, and the bigger ones can still be dangerous even if they seem friendly and safe with the right conditions.
I wonder if it was an unfixed male. It’s not uncommon in the animal world for other males to kill young they didn’t sire.