Struggling with a violent dog? Need help to make your home safe?
🐶🧯 Emergency situation! What steps to take? #violentdog #aggressivedog
Are you dealing with a dangerous pet? Worried about your safety?
🚨 Partner not helping! What now? #petproblems #emergencyroom
Seeking advice on handling a violent dog endangering your family? How to cope?
Step 1: Assess the situation – How severe is the threat?
Step 2: Communicate with partner – Are they on board with finding a solution?
Step 3: Seek professional help – What resources are available for behavior modification?
Step 4: Ensure everyone’s safety – What measures can be taken to prevent further incidents?
Step 5: Evaluate long-term solutions – Is rehoming or professional training the best option?
Stay safe and take proactive steps to address the situation before it escalates further. Your well-being is crucial! #safetyfirst #petbehavior #partnersupport
>We are at the point where Daddy dog has gotten out of his crate and caused major injuries to three people, including myself, and caused two of us to have to go to the hospital.
Why you still have the dog is beyond me. You’re keeping the pets locked up in crates so they don’t kill each-other and has attacked 3 people already. That is no life for pets.
How many more people need to be harmed before your partner realizes. Does he want to wait until a kids face gets mauled off?
Your dog is a threat and dangerous.
Tell your partner that its either you or the dog. If he refuses to remove the dog from your home, you’re taking the other dog with you and moving out. The irresponsibility on his behalf is alarming. Two people have gone to the hospital already, you’re not even safe in your own home.
Daddy dog needs to be put down. I love dogs and wouldn’t say this lightly, but *he can get out of his crate and is aggressive to people*.
What if that dog comes across a *child*?
Keeping this aggressive dog around is also going to train the younger dog that aggressive behaviors to protect himself are okay. This is going to continue.
If your partner won’t do the right thing, contact animal control yourself. Because at some point, that aggressive dog will hurt someone who won’t hesitate to call the cops/sue and then the dog will be put down anyways.
Hey OP,
You’re getting a lot of hate in the comments, and while I understand where it’s coming from I’m not sure it’s helpful to resolving the situation.
Here’s the thing: you’re trying to find a solution that doesn’t involve you either leaving or taking matters into your own hands, which also result in an end to your relationship.
I know how badly you want there to be a special magic way to get your partner to listen to reason, but… there isn’t.
His own partner was mauled and this does not affect him in the slightest. If this doesn’t sway him, literally nothing will.
Your problem is that you haven’t really faced the reality here. There is no way out of this that doesn’t involve you leaving or rehoming/euthanizing the dog yourself.
Your partner thinks it’s totally fine for you to be attacked and to live in fear. That does not bother him.
Yes, I know you say you can’t afford to move out, but the alternative is to keep living like this, knowing that sooner or later you or someone else will be injured far more seriously.
You find a way to move out and take the younger dog with you. Neither of you is safe living with your partner and his dangerous dog.
Have you not been telling the hospital that it’s your own dog biting you? The hospitals where I live make reports to animal control when someone comes in with a dog bite. If it happens again, just tell the ER doc the truth, they’ll call animal control, and with a record like this, they’ll probably put the dog down whether your husband likes it or not. Also, maybe reconsider your marriage to a man who cares more about his dog having balls than his wife’s physical safety.
Euthanize the dog and move out
How on earth has animal control not seized and put down a dangerous and aggressive dog with a minimum of 3 bite reports?
It is entirely irresponsible to attempt rehoming a dog that has been that violent to people specifically. You’ve been severely injured by this animal and you’re keeping it to do what? Kill you next? I have literally NEVER advised someone to euthanize their pet but here I am, telling you it’s your best and only option at this point. That dog cannot be rehabilitated, and will likely only continue to escalate.
All of you are irresponsible pet owners. Spay and neuter your fucking pets. A child or someone could DIE because of you and your partners actions. Worst of the worst.
Also OP you say you have no money to relocate… any chance his sister (who suggested rehoming or euthanization) could have you stay there?
Push comes to shove if you were to get bit again I’d seriously look into finding a lawyer to represent you and for you to sue this dumbfuck. He clearly doesn’t give a flying fuck about you so 🤷🏻
OP, I know this is hard to hear, but your partner thinks it’s acceptable to let you be grievously injured by his dogs that he knows are dangerous and refuses to do anything about. On top of that, he thinks it’s acceptable to let the dogs live with such a poor quality of life.
What happens if next time you or the person the dog’s aggression gets turned on isn’t so lucky? You or someone else could die.
The father dog needs to be euthanized. However, even if that happens (which it sounds like it won’t unless the legal system intervenes), you need to get out of there. Your partner doesn’t value you, your safety or your life
HOLD UP! HOLD UP! HOLD UP! You’re in an abusive relationship and only seem to be focusing on the dogs?
>One of the ways I feel conflicted and didn’t share is that **daddy dog on his own has also absolutely been a protector when my partner has become physical.** Like, how can this dog want to destroy his own son when he is so fiercely protective of me?!
When your partner became physical? No wonder why he doesn’t give af that his dog violently attacked you, he does it to.
Why are you staying in this situation?
I understand money is tight, but staying in an abusive relationship where your “partner” doesn’t care about your safety is not the move. Being treated like you don’t matter and ignored when you voice concerns is not partnership. Abuse is not love.
There must be local resources to help you get out or friends and family you can turn to.
OP, I think you’re so ground down and tired you can’t see how demented this situation is. YOU have somehow ended up responsible for YOUR PARTNER’S dogs, to the extent where you have to put yourself in physical danger and have in fact already sustained severe, permanent injuries. And your partner won’t do anything about any of this
He’d rather let you get hurt again, knowing that the injuries could be severe, and in the meantime let you live permanently stressed out and with no time for yourself, than find a new home for one of his dogs. This tells you all you need to know about your importance to your partner. You’re a free dogsitter, OP, and one he knows won’t sue him or sack him as a client. I’m so angry about this man
I would literally be prosecuting your partner at this point, OP, but I realise that’s not going to feel like an option for you. You’ve reached the point where it’s clear your BF doesn’t care enough about you even to prevent you being bitten by FUCKING. ROTTWEILERS. All you can do at this point is remove yourself from the situation. Honestly OP, I know it’s a painful thought, but this man does not give a single solitary shit about you
You suggested in a comment that your partner has become physical and also caused you injury. Between the physical abuse and the stress of this environment (plus the trauma of having been harmed by these dogs), I understand that you’re at your wits end. Please reach out for assistance and get yourself out of this situation as soon as you are able. I am so sorry for what you’ve endured. You cannot fix this dog and, more importantly, you cannot fix your abusive partner. I sincerely hope that you will put yourself first for once and focus on planning your exit. I wish you the best and hope you stay safe.
https://ia800108.us.archive.org/30/items/LundyWhyDoesHeDoThat/Lundy_Why-does-he-do-that.pdf
https://ncadv.org/RESOURCES
https://www.thehotline.org/resources/housing-support/
https://www.lawhelp.org
https://www.womenslaw.org
https://www.thehotline.org/get-help/domestic-violence-local-resources/
You need to put the aggressive dog down.
That is the only answer.
You are in an abusive relationship with a dangerously irrational person. Your partner does not care about your safety, or about the safety of anyone else, apparently. You said in a comment that you can’t afford to leave. The fact is, you can’t afford not to leave. Couch surf or live in a car until you can get a job. Or go to a women’s shelter. When they see your scars they will move heaven and earth to help you. Get out now. Your partner will probably change his tune quickly when you are not providing free care to these pets 24/7.
This guy doesn’t care if you die.
Attorney here. I’ve represented plaintiffs in dog bite cases. You two are extremely lucky you haven’t been sued already. In my jurisdiction the rule is “one free bite” after that, you are on notice that you have a dangerous dog and you are strictly liable for any and all injuries the dog causes. This dog will either bankrupt you, kill you, or both.
If he won’t do anything about it, then you have to leave. It’s that simple.
**3 important things first because you are one decision or bad day away from life changing legal costs and/or prison:
1. Do NOT rehome this dog. A bite history like his makes this illegal in many states and in others will not relieve you from the liability of his next bite. God forbid he kills someone.
2. Speaking of killing someone, many states will charge you with second degree murder or manslaughter if you knowingly have a dangerous dog (check) and it kills someone. Even just injuring someone could easily result in a felony at this point.
3. Your homeowner’s or renter’s insurance is going to drop you as soon as they learn about this. You can test assure they are not going to cover *any* claims involving him which means you will entirely be on the hook for all your own legal fees and any judgement. Having insurance at least means the victim will be paid, but it’s unlikely you have the same deep pockets and will not be able to pay them in an expedited manner. Even though I’m sure you’d do your best, collecting wouldn’t be as straight forward. It’s not fair to anyone around you to put them at this sort of risk. **
Euthanasia is sadly the most rational choice. This poor dog has no life and it’s only making his behavior worse I guarantee you. There seems to be a lot of cognitive dissonance going on here because while **none** of this is the dog’s fault, it’s also not honest to place the blame at your husband’s feet entirely. You are the primary caregiver and haven’t intervened. These are *your* dogs too and are on the hook just as much as your husband ethically and legally. **You** need to make a unilateral decision if your husband won’t budge. This dog deserved better years ago but you both have let this come to a point where you’ve left this poor dog no real chance at success due to the legal complexities at issue here.
I know it’s hard to hear but you need to wake up. Dog attacks are horrific and are on the rise. States are rightfully cracking down on the owners, but the victims of an attack, their loved ones, and the dog(s) in question are the ones who suffer the most.
OP, I am begging you to leave and get help. Do you have any friends or family, even coworkers who can help you? Are you able to contact dv shelters in your area? You are being abused and this dog could have killed you. It still could. There is help out there for people in your situation. Please seek out that help. You can start with the [national DV hotline](https://www.thehotline.org) and [DV resources in New Mexico](https://www.nmcadv.org).
You have a dangerous animal that’s going to kill someone. You know this. When it does happen you’ll be held criminally responsible.
Put the dog down.
I’m sorry, OP. Your situation is really bad, and please take care of you. I know why you haven’t left, I understand, sincerely.
It’s time for you to rehome yourself.
Your partner DOES NOT CARE that you were seriously, permanently injured.
Your partner DOES NOT CARE that two other people were seriously, permanently (?) injured.
Your partner refuses to listen to reasonable alternatives.
Your partner is a terrible dog owner.
Your partner is so dug in to keeping a dog that should have been put down after the first person was attacked that they will NEVER see anyone else’s life as more important than a dog’s.
Don’t wait around for that dog to kill one of the other dogs. Or you.
Make a plan, find a place, and move out. Then call animal control.
How is it possible animal control hasn’t seized Daddy dog and put him down after 3 people were bitten?
If it’s true, both you and your partner are morons. Him for being mentally ill and denying there’s a huge problem, and you for staying in a relationship despite being a clear second priority to a fucking dog.
And you’re both in your 30’s. SMH.
Ma’am. With all due compassion and respect to you and your situation.
Your partner has been physical with you, and you need a ROTTWEILER to protect you from him. Then, said Rottweiler violently attacks you to the point you have actual nerve damage.
You are in very very very fucking real danger here. The chances of you being murdered by this man and/or his dogs is shockingly high and I am begging you, woman to woman, to leave him now before it is too late. Leave the dogs, leave the man, file for a restraining order, tell your parents and family and friends and whoever else so you can have a strong rooted support system.
But leave. Please please please. Leave him.