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They may as well ban people of childbearing age. My first dog that I owned (eg not a family pet) was a dog that was surrendered at age 4 who had been purchased as a puppy. The parents had an 10yo, 7yo and 2yo....so obviously the youngest came after the dog. It was a Jack Russell
They did their due dilligence, planned to keep the dog, had headed off all of her escape artist ways. She had been known to climb 12 foot barbed wire chainlink fences to escaped (got away from the dog sitter with that trick) This is a dog who lost her life because she got out of a crate and out of a locked car at a highway rest-stop. She was wildly smart and the only way I kept her crated was an airport crate flipped towards the wall with a cinderblock on top and a cinderblock behind.
At any rate they surrendered the dog because their 2yo and the dog were best buddies, they both had a long list of dangerous tricks, including the child letting the dog out of the house, and the dog letting the child out of the yard. They both managed to climb on top of a free standing refrigerator, broke baby gates, managed to get inside the couch....all within moments. They finally gave up the dog when a neighbor threatened CPS after both the dog and child escaped from a locked bedroom and the dog from a locked crate in a closet and they made their way outside well after midnight. It was only the home alarm that went off when they opened the outside door that let the parents know something was amiss.
The shelter would not adopt the dog back out to anyone with children for their own sake. This dog was not agressive, loved everyone and was especially tender with babies. So I think judgment should be up to each individual shelter because "aggression is not always the reason to stop and adoption. And this dog was AMAZING with children...but that didn't mean it should be in a family with them.
They did their due dilligence, planned to keep the dog, had headed off all of her escape artist ways. She had been known to climb 12 foot barbed wire chainlink fences to escaped (got away from the dog sitter with that trick) This is a dog who lost her life because she got out of a crate and out of a locked car at a highway rest-stop. She was wildly smart and the only way I kept her crated was an airport crate flipped towards the wall with a cinderblock on top and a cinderblock behind.
At any rate they surrendered the dog because their 2yo and the dog were best buddies, they both had a long list of dangerous tricks, including the child letting the dog out of the house, and the dog letting the child out of the yard. They both managed to climb on top of a free standing refrigerator, broke baby gates, managed to get inside the couch....all within moments. They finally gave up the dog when a neighbor threatened CPS after both the dog and child escaped from a locked bedroom and the dog from a locked crate in a closet and they made their way outside well after midnight. It was only the home alarm that went off when they opened the outside door that let the parents know something was amiss.
The shelter would not adopt the dog back out to anyone with children for their own sake. This dog was not agressive, loved everyone and was especially tender with babies. So I think judgment should be up to each individual shelter because "aggression is not always the reason to stop and adoption. And this dog was AMAZING with children...but that didn't mean it should be in a family with them.
