Animals

[Vrede too]

Family’s new dog attacks and kills 7-year-old boy, Oklahoma cops say. ‘Gut-wrenching’



Rottweiler, Dobermann, Pit Bull, German Shepherd?

Spoiler:

Sheltie-Corgi mix

[O Really]

Family’s new dog attacks and kills 7-year-old boy, Oklahoma cops say. ‘Gut-wrenching’

Rottweiler, Dobermann, Pit Bull, German Shepherd?

Spoiler:

Sheltie-Corgi mix

I guessed Chihuahua.

[Vrede too]

I guessed Chihuahua.

Nasty little bastards.

[Ulysses]

I guessed Chihuahua.

Cats are safer.

[billy.pilgrim]

I guessed Chihuahua.

Cats are safer.

They steal baby's breath.

[Vrede too]

Cats are safer.

For humans, not counting disease transmission . . . and stealing babies' breath.

[neoplacebo]

A neighbor came by and showed off her daughter's new $1,200 dog. It is all black and looks like a kitten. I started to ask her where the rest of it was but decided not to. She said it's a miniature Pomeranian. The damn thing is so small I'd be worried about stepping on it. It would fit inside a tall drinking glass. You could take it for a walk using a kite string as a leash. A bag of dog food will last a year.

[Vrede too]

A neighbor came by and showed off her daughter's new $1,200 dog. It is all black and looks like a kitten. I started to ask her where the rest of it was but decided not to. She said it's a miniature Pomeranian. The damn thing is so small I'd be worried about stepping on it. It would fit inside a tall drinking glass. You could take it for a walk using a kite string as a leash. A bag of dog food will last a year.

Hawk bait. Once they're older there is no risk of stepping on them since they constantly yap.
Stomping, otoh . . .

[neoplacebo]

A neighbor came by and showed off her daughter's new $1,200 dog. It is all black and looks like a kitten. I started to ask her where the rest of it was but decided not to. She said it's a miniature Pomeranian. The damn thing is so small I'd be worried about stepping on it. It would fit inside a tall drinking glass. You could take it for a walk using a kite string as a leash. A bag of dog food will last a year.

Hawk bait. Once they're older there is no risk of stepping on them since they constantly yap.
Stomping, otoh . . .

She said that it's now as big as it will get. It would only take one stomp. Would not make a good police dog; criminals would laugh.

[Ulysses]

I guessed Chihuahua.

Cats are safer.

They steal baby's breath.

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VERIFY: Do cats 'suck the breath' out of babies and suffocate them?

WHAT? Is this seriously true, that cats will sniff milk on a baby's breath and in turn suffocate the baby?

The answer: NO.

"It's a great question and I'm glad you're asking it, but it's not something I'd be concerned with," said Dr. Ginger Brown Johnson of the Veterinary and Rehabilitation Center of Cape Elizabeth. The notion that your cat will smell the milk on your baby's breath and suffocate it is an old wive's tale -- one that was even published in medical journals in the early 1900s. "There is a real danger of a fatal termination by suffocation," a 1905 pediatric journal reads.

While the claim that a cat will purposefully suffocate your baby is false, the VERIFY team did find one incident in the United Kingdom in 2000 where a six week old baby died after the family cat fell asleep on his face. Still - Dr. Johnson says that situation is incredibly rare.

She recommends making sure your cat has its own space. "You can be concerned about cats and babies in the same space, as you would with any pet and children," she said. "Think about where your cat's gonna be sleeping. Think about where their litter box is going to be. Think about where they're going to be fed. Make sure that they have all the resources and that they're separate from where your child is going to be."

[Vrede too]

Cats are safer.

They steal baby's breath.

VERIFY: Do cats 'suck the breath' out of babies and suffocate them?

WHAT? Is this seriously true, that cats will sniff milk on a baby's breath and in turn suffocate the baby?

The answer: NO....

I believe billy.pilgrim over some "expert".

[Ulysses]

When pediatric experts Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and Dr. Joshua Sparrow wrote in their Families Today column that some cats would kill infants, they caused an uproar in the animal welfare community, which worried about thousands of cats being dumped by their owners.

The column, which ran in the Houston Chronicle Jan. 28 said:

“Cat lovers may be upset with us for saying so, but it is perhaps because cats — more than those who don’t love cats may think — actually do attach themselves to human caregivers that they have been known to be jealous of new babies as if the new arrivals were siblings! Some cats will seek out the babies’ mouths and noses and lie on them to smother them.”

Not only were cat lovers upset, but also animal experts.

“It’s funny that someone would still actually think that is true,” said Dr. Teri Schweiss, vice president of animal welfare at the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. “That is a very old wives’ tale that has since been debunked.”

https://www.chron.com/life/pets-cats/ar ... 610306.php

[Ulysses]

Suffocation deaths of infants 12 months and younger are mostly attributed to pillows and even caretakers accidentally smothering babies while they sleep together, according to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and National Center for Health Statistics.

“I’ve never heard of a cat killing a baby,” said Schweiss, who conceded it could happen. “Certainly there have been many instances of cats biting babies, scratching babies and that type of things, but unlike dogs that will sometimes attack and just keep attacking, cats will usually do a quick swipe and run off.”

[ibid]

[O Really]

A neighbor came by and showed off her daughter's new $1,200 dog. It is all black and looks like a kitten. I started to ask her where the rest of it was but decided not to. She said it's a miniature Pomeranian. The damn thing is so small I'd be worried about stepping on it. It would fit inside a tall drinking glass. You could take it for a walk using a kite string as a leash. A bag of dog food will last a year.

Hawk bait. Once they're older there is no risk of stepping on them since they constantly yap.
Stomping, otoh . . .

My dad used to have a comment about that. He's see somebody walking one of those and say, "Aw, that's sad - look what that poor woman is having to use for a dog."

[Ulysses]

Oh, well.

I don't have anything against small dogs, other than that they can be a bit too yappy and insecure.

What's the usual name for them? Ankle biters?

Although I've never, that I can remember, had my ankles bit by one. Oh, wait, there was one that came after me when I was about 7 years old on my walk home from school. It went for my ankles, so I kicked up my heels, and my brother scolded me because the dog wound up getting heel kicked in the jaw.

It did prepare me for some ankle biters here on the internet, much later in life.

[neoplacebo]

Oh, well.

I don't have anything against small dogs, other than that they can be a bit too yappy and insecure.

What's the usual name for them? Ankle biters?

Although I've never, that I can remember, had my ankles bit by one.......It did prepare me for some ankle biters here on the internet, much later in life.

You just think it prepared you; your ankles are more than likely a bloody mess that resembles hamburger meat right now. And all those goddamn cats you have are even now conspiring about how to suffocate you in your sleep tomorrow night. They are currently arguing about whether it's better to just plop down right away on your face or if the typical circling around twice before settling down is the better tactic. The gist of the argument is that a one plop tactic may not cover your nose and mouth adequately, whereas the circle twice before settling allows for a more accurate placement. This could go either way. Plus there's a lesser conflict as to whether it would be better for a long hair cat or a short hair cat to make the plop. My personal opinion leans toward the long hair cat....it can cover more surface area all other things being equal.

[Vrede too]

Oh, well.

I don't have anything against small dogs, other than that they can be a bit too yappy and insecure.

What's the usual name for them? Ankle biters?

Although I've never, that I can remember, had my ankles bit by one. Oh, wait, there was one that came after me when I was about 7 years old on my walk home from school. It went for my ankles, so I kicked up my heels, and my brother scolded me because the dog wound up getting heel kicked in the jaw.

It did prepare me for some ankle biters here on the internet, much later in life.

You just think it prepared you; your ankles are more than likely a bloody mess that resembles hamburger meat right now. And all those goddamn cats you have are even now conspiring about how to suffocate you in your sleep tomorrow night. They are currently arguing about whether it's better to just plop down right away on your face or if the typical circling around twice before settling down is the better tactic. The gist of the argument is that a one plop tactic may not cover your nose and mouth adequately, whereas the circle twice before settling allows for a more accurate placement. This could go either way. Plus there's a lesser conflict as to whether it would be better for a long hair cat or a short hair cat to make the plop. My personal opinion leans toward the long hair cat....it can cover more surface area all other things being equal.

The coroner will wonder what's up with all of the fleas in his nose and throat. They bite Useless ankles, too.

[O Really]

I'm pretty sure an "ankle biter" is a small kid. Like a "crumb snatcher" or "carpet crawler." A small dog that bites ankles is called a "football."

[Leo Lyons]

VERIFY: Do cats 'suck the breath' out of babies and suffocate them?
While the claim that a cat will purposefully suffocate your baby is false, the VERIFY team did find one incident in the United Kingdom in 2000 where a six week old baby died after the family cat fell asleep on his face. Still - Dr. Johnson says that situation is incredibly rare.

What does Dr. Johnson know?
A pussy damn near smothered me one ti.....
wait, never mind. TMI!

[Leo Lyons]

I'm pretty sure an "ankle biter" is a small kid. Like a "crumb snatcher" or "carpet crawler." A small dog that bites ankles is called a "football."

I've got a friend who once had a toothless aged Yorkie that would grab at a stranger's heel and and tear at
it like it was a rag.
I nicknamed it Gumshoe.