Huskies need to be banned! Siberian Huskies Fatally Maul 11-Month-Old Boy

waggy

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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- An 11-month-old boy was fatally mauled when two Siberian huskies got into his playpen at a home where he was visiting, authorities said.

Detective Jimmy Patterson of the Putnam County Sheriff's Department said Trey Paeth was pronounced dead Monday afternoon after the mauling in a bedroom at the home of Allen McCaffrey just outside Cookeville.


Patterson said the boy's parents, Chris and Casey Paeth, were visiting McCaffrey. They are in the Marines, assigned to Florence, Ala., Patterson said.

Two adults and several children were at the home when the attack occurred, but apparently were in another part of the house and heard nothing, the detective said. The dogs have been destroyed.

Patterson said he does not expect anyone to be arrested.

"The owners advise that there were no signs of aggression whatsoever. They've never had problems with the dogs interacting with their children. It caught everybody completely by surprise," said Patterson.

Deputy Bill Hunter, an animal control officer, told the Cookeville Herald-Citizen that the playpen had holes and blood stains on its screen.

"This is such a tragic case," Sheriff David Andrews told the paper. "You just can't measure how tragic it is."
 

halik

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Isn't that the first time ever that's actually happened with huskies? As opposed to incident #43242342809 for pitbulls?
 

waggy

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BoomerD

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Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: pcnerd37
If I maul somebody, will you try to ban humans?

i agree! lets ban humans! ohhhh good one.


I suspect every other species on the planet would vote for that if they could...
 

waggy

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Originally posted by: BoomerD
Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: pcnerd37
If I maul somebody, will you try to ban humans?

i agree! lets ban humans! ohhhh good one.


I suspect every other species on the planet would vote for that if they could...

hah yeah. good thing they can't! though i heard that the chimps were very happy when Bush won. they thought one of there own made it!
 

Isla

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Stupid parents need to be banned.

I went to an inlaw's many years ago where a young Rotty was present. "Oh, he loves kids!" they said. Still, I kept very close to my toddler. When the dog lunged at her in front of everyone, I was the one to holler and make him back off. (I worked as a veterinary assistant for a few years, so I wasn't playing.)

After that, any time we went over, I INSISTED 'Teddy' be locked away.

You have to understand that dogs are animals first. (LOL, so are cats!)
 

thomsbrain

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i've never met a mean husky in my life. there can be bad apples in any breed, but these aren't exactly dobermans.
 

Nebor

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I don't understand. These people don't need these large assault dogs, with high capacity mouths just play fetch. It's madness.
 

jagec

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Originally posted by: Nebor
I don't understand. These people don't need these large assault dogs, with high capacity mouths just play fetch. It's madness.

Perhaps, but huskies dig holes better than almost any other breed, so maybe that's the reasoning.

huskies are NOT "assault dogs", though.
 

Uhtrinity

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And a Husky picked me up by the back of my shirt when I was less than a year old keeping me from going out into the road. Could very well have saved my life.

 

chusteczka

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Well behaved dogs often display unusually aggressive behavior towards infants.
Sometimes it is due to territorial reasons, other times the dog is unable to understand the infant or its actions.

This unusually aggressive behavior is typically only towards newly introduced infants the dog has not spent much time with.
 

darkamulets

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Originally posted by: waggy
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Two adults and several children were at the home when the attack occurred, but apparently were in another part of the house and heard nothing, the detective said.


How do you not hear an animal mauling something? Good job on child supervision, you know I love animals and all but you should still take care with leaving them alone with such a young child.
 

daveymark

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Originally posted by: effee
Ban guns too!

don't try to bring logic into this. The owner should be blamed only in cases of dogs killing, not with guns killing.

With guns, it's never the owner's fault. Always the gun's.
 

KoolDrew

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Originally posted by: SirStev0
the nicest dog I have ever had the opportunity to meet was a huskie.

My dog is probably the nicest dog ever, and is a huskie. Beautiful white too.
 

RaiderJ

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I have to agree with the OP, huskies are extremely dangerous! I can attest to this personally because I have a husky! As you can see from the picture below, she poses an extreme danger to anyone who might cross her path.

My dangerous husky!
Ready to attack
 

Nebor

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Originally posted by: RaiderJ
I have to agree with the OP, huskies are extremely dangerous! I can attest to this personally because I have a husky! As you can see from the picture below, she poses an extreme danger to anyone who might cross her path.

My dangerous husky!
Ready to attack

You dog nuts are something else. When are you going to concede that common sense dog control is necessary to bring the United States in line with the rest of the world?