YouTubers Nikki & Dan Phillippi Face Backlash For Putting Their Dog Down After Biting Their Child

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[stillglows]

what the fuck how was rehoming not an option because they had had the dog for so long? that's ridiculous. so many people have to give up pets they've had for years for various reasons. sounds like they didn't try, didn't care, want sympathy, all of the above.

all of my dogs have bit me at some point but putting them down has never come to mind (one time i did end up having to go to the hospital). normally because when i've been bit i know it's my fault or there have been other factors. and then i've worked with them to make sure it doesn't happen again.

this makes me so angry. the poor dog didn't deserve this. i can't even look at that sweet puppers face it's too upsetting :(

[potter_lover456]

I did get bit by my neighbors Doberman as a kid and my neighbor offered to put him down and my mom was like, "because my daughter was stupid?"

Their kids (older than me but still young) literally told me not to go near him multiple times and eight year old me was like "but animals love me! 😇" Yeah...no. The only thing I'd say on them is that dog really needed to have an adult with him, not just a 12 year old holding him back.

Anyhow, now I don't approach dogs without explicit permission and I'm shocked at how many parents just let their kids walk up to strange dogs.

[stillglows]

i just don't understand why this is even a consideration for people. unless a dog is super aggressive all the time and even then you can work with the dog or put them in better situations. i fully believe that dogs are only as bad as they are treated or their owners let them be

[cityofships]

Its wild lol. My then three year old got really excited one day at the park because there was this big fluffy, gorgeous dog sitting with its family at a picnic bench. I literally just caught his hand before he zoomed out of reach to go pet it. I asked the mum if the dog was okay with a little kid petting him and she just laughed and then politely told me it was better he stayed back as he was funny about being approached by strangers. I was so bloody glad I grabbed my kid in time.

[misato]

on the flip side you have idiot owners who swear up and down their dog is the fucking sweetest and then i've seen them be aggro as fuck within minutes

my daughter and i left so fucking fast

[stillglows]

i feel like these people really don't care about their dog or want to put the effort in to properly train them which really sucks for everyone.

[potter_lover456]

People who don't train their dogs also piss me off. And I live in LA, so there are a lot of "he's by precious fur baby he's so good I loooove him no he can't sit, stay, or stop barking, why do you ask" people

[green_monsterx]

I'm shocked at how many parents just let their kids walk up to strange dogs.it is INSANE. I have two dogs - a pittie and a pug mix. One night I was walking them and a kid came up with a ball in her hand and swung at my pug with the ball. I had to jerk him out of the way from being hit. I looked around and there was a guy with another kid and I was like hey, you should not let your child approach dogs like this, she could have just gotten really hurt and he looked at me and was like "that's not my kid." So i walk over to the two ladies I see sitting on the benches and asked if she was one of their daughters and when they said yes, I told them what she did and was like you should not allow your kid to approach dogs, my pittie is a recue and can be aggressive and if she had swung at her instead of my calmer dog, it would have been a different story. This bitch just looked at me and goes "I know how to parent, thanks." I just smiled and was like "well no, you obviously don't." All of a sudden mr "that's not my kid" comes sliding over and

[stillglows]

omg i feel this so much! my rescue is very skittish and even though she's usually really friendly all it takes is someone making too sudden a movement or something for her to go on the defensive. yet somehow we're the assholes when we don't want kids patting/acting like that around our dogs!? even if it's for the best of both the dog and the kid?!

[jinxeh13]

For real, though. I was bit by my friend's new rescue this past fall. We were handing out Halloween candy to kids and I didn't notice the dog was right next to me on the porch. We had some snacks on the table next to me, and I jerked my hand down really quickly to grab a chip without realizing the dog was sniffing around at the opening of the chip bag. I freaked him out, and he reacted by biting my hand. He didn't break the skin, but he mushed my hand together - he's a pittie, and it was a crush injury. My hand was like instantly twice its normal size.

I don't blame the dog. Clearly, as we found out, he has some food aggression issues. Now when I go over my friend just keeps him upstairs or lets him in the backyard (fenced in). He's in training, and we're hopeful that will help in the long term. My hand eventually healed (looked terrible for a while, though, lol).

[fr3shtodeath]

Exactly. I was bitten in the face by a dog as a child because I followed them into their crate after all of the adults told me not to. Of course they made sure I was okay, but the reaction from the adults was basically like "why did you do that after we said not to?" and they were right.

[kansascshuffle]

That explanation is ridiculous. "Had it from birth" makes no sense when dogs are rehomed all the time after old ladies who owned them all their life die, for example. And as for agression, shelter workers/volunteers often prefer to check the dog out on their own to see if it is indeed agressive because owners are sometimes straight up lying about why they're giving their dogs away. Or owners see as agression something that was a behavior that THEY let the dog learn.

[stillglows]

and unless they actually had the litter of puppies themselves they haven't him from birth. rehoming dogs sometimes is a lot work but it's possible. i think they were just looking for sympathy and just proved they're psychotic.