what would you do.......?

[jennifert9]

Yorkster, what bothers me MOST about this incident in NOT that the dog bit him...I can see the dog reacting without thinking... More than once Duncan has been "up in arms" about something silly, usually another dog walking by our apartment? and we both have found my forearm in his mouth. Granted, he didn't bite me or even put pressure, he was just out of his wits with anger or aggression or whatever and wasn't thinking. (He immediately lets go and looks contrite, it was an accident, a consequence of his over zealousness...no biggie....)
BUT, going for the throat is NOT a natural canine behavior and THAT bothers me. Wolves DO NOT kill their prey before eating it. Cats do that....they "strangle" their prey by biting down on the throat until it no longer struggles, either dying by the inability to breathe or blood loss. Wolves hunt in packs and usually corner or catch their prey and then start biting in the easiest, most opportunistic place for them personally. It's sad and disgusting but such is nature....
"Going for the throat" is a LEARNED, TRAINED" behavior in canines, it is not natural. Perhaps the throat and head and neck area WERE the most convenient areas for this dog to bite die to the way he fell and landed.....? But intentionally attacking another living thing there is so NOT natural for canines. Was this dog used for protection before the kids? Is this dog trained in schutzhound?(sp?) There has to be more to the story than your cousin is telling you...I mean, at the VERY least, the county should have taken this dog for behaviorial examination. I used to work for the county health dept. and we took in dogs for WAY more minor offenses....my own dog got a letter because he jumped on a boy and scratched him on the hip (no broken skin, no blood).....Remember the case in San Fran? Those dogs were trained how to kill, it was not their nature or their instincts that caused them to kill that woman, it was their prior training in protection, and offensive behavior and their devotion to their owners that caused that senseless death, NOT natural behavior. So, now that I have said all that...perhaps the dog does need to go.....So sad....