By Matt Schad on
2/24/2011 10:36 AM
Opinion: Dogs that Attack Should Be Destroyed
Over the years I have represented dozens of clients, many of them children, who were victims of dog attacks. All “dog bite” cases are unique and challenging. Recently, one of our clients was terribly disfigured in an attack that was covered by local television and newspaper media. I’m blogging about it because it’s important to her that no one else ever be needlessly savaged, and that this dog in particular is eventually destroyed.
First of all, let me say that I like dogs. I love my own dog. But, I like people more – and I have absolutely no sympathy for vicious dogs or their owners.
Maybe it’s my background growing up on a farm. We had working dogs that protected our herd from stray dogs. If a wild dog was loitering around the farm, we’d chase it away. If it came back, or threatened anyone, we shot it. If one of our own dogs got crazy and ate a chicken, or nipped at the cattle or goats, it would “disappear”....