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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 392696" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>Jena -</p><p></p><p>I didn't mean to upset you. Putting the dog down is the last resort as I mentioned. However, you do have to bear in mind the liability that you might face no to mention the guilt if something happened. I know how it feels. One of my dogs allegedly bit a letter carrier several years ago. It was Good Friday and Passover so I was home. My easy child son was outside with the dog when the substitute mail lady began to scream that the dog had bitten her. My son, who was 9 at the time, swore that the dog had NOT bitten her. I asked to see it and she pulled up her pants leg, which was not ripped or torn, and showed me a scabbed over, healing bite. She then began yelling that she had been bitten a few days earlier by another dog. I am a lawyer and I sent my son to get a camera. We took a photo of her leg and the untorn pants. Her supervisor came and made a report. I notified my homeowner's carrier (which was my employer at the time) and then went to the police station to give them copies of the photos. We got a lawyer letter, I called the lawyers and told them that if they wanted to mess up their real case against the other dog owner, they'd sue me because I would testify that she was clearly taunting my dog since my son had told her not to come into the yard and that he would walk over and get the mail but she came in anyway and then started yelling. I was not sued. However, for a long time, my dog did not go out of the house unless she was on the chain in the yard or being walked. I would not have put her down for that episode but if she actually had bitten and persisted in it, I don't know. I still get nervous even though it was almost 5 years ago. If she bites anyone they might count that episode against her even though I firmly believe my son.</p><p></p><p>As for the prescriptions, when my daughter was little, she had a friend whose dog took Prozac. The poor thing drooled and ran around chasing its tail.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 392696, member: 3493"] Jena - I didn't mean to upset you. Putting the dog down is the last resort as I mentioned. However, you do have to bear in mind the liability that you might face no to mention the guilt if something happened. I know how it feels. One of my dogs allegedly bit a letter carrier several years ago. It was Good Friday and Passover so I was home. My easy child son was outside with the dog when the substitute mail lady began to scream that the dog had bitten her. My son, who was 9 at the time, swore that the dog had NOT bitten her. I asked to see it and she pulled up her pants leg, which was not ripped or torn, and showed me a scabbed over, healing bite. She then began yelling that she had been bitten a few days earlier by another dog. I am a lawyer and I sent my son to get a camera. We took a photo of her leg and the untorn pants. Her supervisor came and made a report. I notified my homeowner's carrier (which was my employer at the time) and then went to the police station to give them copies of the photos. We got a lawyer letter, I called the lawyers and told them that if they wanted to mess up their real case against the other dog owner, they'd sue me because I would testify that she was clearly taunting my dog since my son had told her not to come into the yard and that he would walk over and get the mail but she came in anyway and then started yelling. I was not sued. However, for a long time, my dog did not go out of the house unless she was on the chain in the yard or being walked. I would not have put her down for that episode but if she actually had bitten and persisted in it, I don't know. I still get nervous even though it was almost 5 years ago. If she bites anyone they might count that episode against her even though I firmly believe my son. As for the prescriptions, when my daughter was little, she had a friend whose dog took Prozac. The poor thing drooled and ran around chasing its tail. [/QUOTE]
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