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I can't answer the question until I have more information itsmee.  Is there a link we can go to?

Generally, and with rare exception, when an apparently unprovoked attack occurs, the dog is put down.  Whether this is right or wrong, I can't say.  I would hate to put my dog down because it nipped at someone, but with an all-out attack, maybe I'd feel differently; it really depends.  IF the dog is defending itself or property or "master", that's a whole new scenario.  
My mom was bitten by a dog 3 times many, many years ago.  The dog wasn't destroyed. The attack was unprovoked.   

Dog was put down...makes me wonder what set him off to tear into the man like that??

Check this tragedy here>>>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/mexico-man-home-find-pit-bull-mauled-father-death-article-1.1075004

pythonlover

Thanks for the link, but i have no intentions of watching it, i am too sad for the dog and sad for the old man.

This is a very sad story. Im too wonder what provoked that dog..We will probably never know. The dog had to be put down and it makes me feel terrible for both, the father and the dog.

What are the circumstances surrounding this story ?

German shepherd attacks, kills toddler in San Diego 

The family dog attacked Aaron Carlson around 11:30 a.m. Saturday in an upstairs bedroom at a duplex at 3500 block of Lofberg Street.

Rottweiler kills baby

Police described yesterday how a Rottweiler killed baby Archie-Lee Hirst after tearing him from the arms of a seven-year-old girl, dragging him into his grandparents' back garden and savaging him. The baby's 16-year-old aunt tried to rescue the child but could not stop the animal, police said.

74 year old woman killed by two dogs.

 Kaustuv Basu, 74 year old Loraine May was killed Thursday by two of her dogs. One of the dogs involved in the attack was a golden retriever and Labrador mix, six years old. The other dog was an Australian Shepherd that was eleven years old. 

WBOC-TV 16, Delmarvas News Leader, FOX 21 - Girl, 7, Hospitalized After Poodle Attack ... The child sustained bite wounds to her upper body.

Since people want to fixate on pitbulls, I thought I give you other dogs to think about. 

Colleen

I'm just tried of people fixating on the pits. I have a beautiful 1/2 pit 1/2 Jack Russel who let's his beagle "brother" play extremely rough with him. The beagle bites and pulls at his skin to the point it hurts because Leroy will cry. Leroy just stands and takes it and never turns on the beagle. Pits are more docile than people want to believe. They just want to believe that the dogs are viscous and attack at will.

I'm don't think that a dog that bites should always be put down. Here ih the UK Pit Bulls have been banned for a few years now, the powers that be classed them as dangerous dogs. The dangerous ones were mainly owned by thugs and criminals. Now they can't have Pit Bulls they are taking to own Bull Terriers and training them to bite. Its not the dogs it's the people who own them that make them aggresive.

Doolittle is Very Distressed!!!!  And Quite Disgusted!!!  If Doo had the funding she would take all of these dogs in and gently talk the situation over!!!  Many dogs are very smart and sensitive!  They very rarely attack if unprovoked.  In fact, Doo has gone into shelters to discuss why the dog has been given up or run away- it is Never their fault!  They are pack animals and need their pack to be respectful to them!!!!  So, it their primary Pack is a human or family, they will eventually settle in- and obey rules in which they understand!  Dogs are not guns, they are not meant to fight to the kill with other dogs or humans!  They are not born to undergo undue harshness, physical or psychological punishment, and poor treatment!!!!  They are not on this Earth to have humans in-breed them to the point that their brains can not reason!!!  Doo, has met many, many, many dogs and has also listened to un-countable conversations they have had with one another!!!  Humans are at fault here-period. No Exceptions (except for those dogs that are wild and contract rabies..then, you put it down to nature!)  DO NOT OWN A DOG BECAUSE: You want to control another living being, you want to beat them into submission, you are going to train them to harm other animals or humans, you want to 'experiment' with them..withholding food, water, attention, love, medical care, or placing them in extreme weather conditions!  I need to go vomit at the thought of all of this!!!!

When people come to realize that the MEDIA is the fault of everything! I know I bitch about the media all the time but listen up people! It's the media that gets on a story that sells and they will beat it to the ground! Unfortunately, too many of you don't see the pattern.

Dogs:  Dangerous ones, according to the media.

1960's It was the bulldog in the news

1970's  It was the German Shepard that was constantly in the news 

1980's and 1990's it was the Doberman that was attacking everyone according to the media

2000 came the Pit Bulls and they are attacking and killing humans daily (someplace)

The media will dig up these maulings and report on them no matter where it happens, you'll hear about it.  Unfortunately, it does happen but considering how far and wide the media must search for it its a rare occurrence. BUT gather all you can find and its an epidemic!   The pit bull is the target now but they are blaming the dog, its the owner that needs to be euthanized. or at least caned like they do in China. 

Here in CA the Pit Bull is a status symbol for gangs, they mistreat these dogs and make them into aggressive weapons, the dog is doing what it was taught to do, or perhaps responding to the way it was treated.

I had a cocker spaniel that bit me in the ankle, I wonder why that  didn't make the news?? :) 

I  read more about attacks by Pitt Bulls than any other kind of dog. I don’t trust any dog. I had the sweetest, kindest Golden but she never came close to the children in my preschool. Sometimes I’d put her on her leash and we’d all trail around the block. It was her joy and their pleasure.

Colleen, I do know how you feel because I have relatives who have a Pit Bull and they get very tired of people yapping at them. Their three nieces (age 2-7) are not allowed to go to their house.

I had a Black Lab Mix when I was little. The dog slept with me and when my parents came in to tuck me in dog would growl, snarl, and drool. Terrible. It got so when I turned over in my bed that stupid dog would protect my right leg from my left.  It took my parents a very long time to euthanize the dog. Nobody would take it. NOBODY.

I’d have any dog that killed a human put down. I could not bear to be around it.  That was what happend to the Pit Bull in the above story. Apparenty the old man has disabled because he was cared for by his son.His son has quite a debate deciding whether or not to have the dog euthanized. He did not have a chcice because the animal patrol people would not let him have a vicious animal in his home.

Colleen

Pitbulls have the highest rate of being a dog to be trained to attack and kill. I blame humans more than I do the dog. These dogs are trained to be guard dogs,attack dogs and fighting dogs. Of course they will fall into the highest rate of attacking. The majority have been trained to do so.

Colleen

@ Itsmee, some dogs are just bad. Just like people, dogs can have mental issues too. I would have taken the dog to an aggression therapist to see if her aggression was caused by an illness. Your parents chose to not spend the money on her to find out however. I do not fault the dog for her actions. She did not receive the help she needed. It's not like she had the ability to help herself.

Pit Bulls at the moment are fashionable with the young people because of there alleged reputation, they prefer aggressive dogs, the only reason for agressive dogs are their agressive masters, the dog is made this way not born this way!! 

If the dog wasn't protecting someone, or its territory, and just attacked and killed without provocation, in answering the quesion, I would say putting the dog down would be proper. It doesn't matter what breed it is, it doesn't matter what its history is, it is a dog now known to kill without provocation.

I mean, think about it, would you want a dog that has already killed without provocation to be around your family? Not me, and there's just no logical reason I would want to put another human being at risk to being exposed to that danger. It might be an animal, but it's commited the equivalent to murder.

Execution.

I know both Pits and Amstafs.and they are cute as ever and I had half Rotweiler and she was tough but loved  everybody. Here in Finland most of the cases where dog has bitten a child are caused by adults' stupidity. It is always the dog that pays the ultimate price, its life.

Over 80% of Gamepits are not aggressive enough to fight, and they are bred to fight. So it is not in the dogs it is in their training.