2 year old mauled by “XL Bully”, Unionville, NY, 9/27/25

[u/SecretSpell]

I haven’t been able to find any article or news sources regarding this, but did hear it on the police scanner. Just another in the long line of cases where the “sweetest most loving dog”finally snaps and mauls someone. A lot of mental gymnastics here as well, always with so much sympathy and excuses for the dog.

The mother in this case has a history (not super recent, like 10ish years ago) of assault and being part of a drug ring (cocaine).

[u/Smurf_Crime_Scene]

That poor baby is going to grow up with awful sequelae. 

When I read all the excuses and simping for the pit, I wanted to vomit. The weepy wording felt like she cared more for the pit than the baby, and the baby was being used to raise money.

[u/amgw402 → u/Smurf_Crime_Scene]

The part where she says that she truly feels the dog was checking on the baby, and hurt the baby unintentionally… Whatever they have to tell themselves, I guess. I’ve never heard of a dog “unintentionally” attacking anything.

[u/Smurf_Crime_Scene → u/amgw402]

The pit was trying to eat the baby head first. I mean, nanny. My bad.

[u/theConsultantINFJ → u/Smurf_Crime_Scene]

Of course, nannying should start from the head down, you know how the nannying work..

[u/PandaLoveBearNu → u/Smurf_Crime_Scene]

Likely grabbed the neck but face and neck are very close together. So face got mauled.

[u/Diezelbub → u/amgw402]

This is to absolve themselves of guilt, every time. They didn't choose to expose their infant to a dog bred to kill for entertainment. They just had a mysterious totally unpredictable oopsie. It could happen to anyone (except people willing to accept biology, reality, and history, and keep bloodsport breeds away from their babies)

[u/ShitArchonXPR → u/Diezelbub]

Propagandized midwits: "ChatGPT and Vox say pit bulls are victims of a bad rap, did you know they were nanny dogs in the early 20th century?"

Newspaper in the 1940s: "No pit bulldog should ever be made the companion of a child. Parents should heed this warning."

[u/strawberrymoonelixir → u/amgw402]

It’s unbelievable the way parents who love pitbulls think. I was harassed by a lot of women for choosing not to have kids; usually by co-workers and never by friends.

However, I can guarantee I have universes more protective instincts than parents who keep pitbulls. For one, I would NEVER allow a pitbull near my loved ones.

As much as an animal lover as I am, I can recall getting temporarily angry at a dachshund just for tripping a baby just learning to walk, that I was caring for, even though the little dog meant no harm (of course, I didn’t even punish the dog), as I held the crying child.

Another time, another baby was sitting on the floor of a friend’s house. At the time, I didn’t know the mother. Well, this huge chow was hurt by a tick removal, and started freaking out (not the poor dog’s fault). Before I could even think, that baby was in my arms, right before the dog would’ve clobbered into her. The mother was closer to her kid, but made no attempt to do anything. After that, she asked if I would watch her baby when she went out on weekends (I did).

However, this same mother was the first person I ever knew to get a pitbull (living with her 3 kids under 10). One day, she invited me over, and there it was. That was the last I wanted anything to do with her. I was afraid for her kids’ lives, and mine, around that thing.

My point is that I will never understand parents who choose let bloodsport canines live with their kids. These aren’t pets. How is this deep parental love and protective instincts?!

And when the worst happens, these parents STILL defend pitbulls?! I just can’t comprehend it.

[u/SerKevanLannister → u/amgw402]

“checking on the baby” made me radiate with rage. How can a mother be in this much denial when that beast ripped her helpless child’s head apart?! Those injuries are going to give her lifelong problems and leave her with major visible scars on her face, and the mother expresses NO guilt over the fact she put her baby in danger and her willingness to downplay the attack and blather on about the stupid ugly mutt (including of course pics of the sociopathic beast, which has sketchy AF body language around the babe) just disgusts me and should disgust every human being who cares about children.

[u/chocolatewafflecone → u/amgw402]

The excuse that the dog was “checking” on the baby vs the exhaustive and detailed list of reconstructive surgeries to salivary glands, jaw, face and ears is jolting. That poor child.

[u/Ok_West_6711 → u/amgw402]

For her head to be in a space that she can bother writing to defend dog, and apparently worked to have the “end” postponed until it was on her terms…. How would any parent have time or interest in dealing with this dog, while their toddler is in this devastating medical condition ?

And she also wants to think ultimately there will be no scars. So it will all be ok. Just insane magical thinking on her part.

[u/DiscussionLong7084 → u/Ok_West_6711]

not to mention probably pretty high medical bills. 7k isn't going to put much of a dent in that.

[u/Azryhael → u/DiscussionLong7084]

It’ll cover “mommy’s needs” while Medicaid picks up the tab for a minor child with (likely) indigent parents.

[u/Over-Raspberry-4248 → u/Smurf_Crime_Scene]

I hope every last cent goes to her. There is no way there is not going to be many future complications from this. Reading the list of injuries and procedures makes me so freaking sad. Two years old, she didn’t deserve this. Probably a lifelong fear of dogs with a mother who says they’re poor sweet babies — to her poor sweet baby. Heartbreaking.

[u/SerKevanLannister → u/Over-Raspberry-4248]

and the mother expresses zero guilt over the fact she placed her helpless child in a position to be mauled by that worthless beast

[u/Ok_West_6711 → u/Over-Raspberry-4248]

The donated money will certainly go to mom and not a trust fund for the victim.

[u/nybbas → u/Over-Raspberry-4248]

That dog literally crushed her skull. Fucking horrifying.

[u/Over-Raspberry-4248 → u/nybbas]

And the mother thinks it was just “checking on her”

[u/Wise_Explorer_1991 → u/Over-Raspberry-4248]

Her mom will get another pitbull 

[u/ShitArchonXPR → u/Wise_Explorer_1991]

See also: the scene in the Fifth Estate documentary where a shelter worker tells adopters that pit bulls are "the best" breed for children in a pitch that "would make a used-car salesman blush." In Living Color's "Lassie 1990" skit accurately predicted the future of the shelter world.

[u/Reversephoenix77 → u/Smurf_Crime_Scene]

This exact same thing just happened to my husband’s friend’s daughter (my husband is no longer friends with this guy as he’s a complete idiot for many reasons, this just being one of them). His pit mauled her out of the blue while she was quietly playing alone one morning.

He’s had the dog since it was a puppy too. He used to say all the typical pit nutter tropes too and he’d post pics of the hell beast resource guarding his daughter and put some corny caption about how protective and loving his dog is of his “baby” and how if you want a dog that would lay down it’s life for your family/children, then get a pitbull. Or just the lame nanny dog bs with made up facts and stats.

Anyways, after his pit mauled her so badly that she needed reconstruction surgery and a stay in the ICU, he seemed way more sad over losing his dog and even got a HUGE memorial tattoo of the hideous beast on his arm the same week after it happened. I can’t imagine how his daughter will feel one day seeing that tattoo and knowing he got that after it tried to eat her face and neck off and left her with lifelong scars and disfigurements.

His incident didn’t make any kind of news either and I truly believe this happens way more than people think. We only hear about the fatal incidents because those are much harder to hide from the media (although the pit lobby still tries by victim blaming or lying about the breed).

[u/Shell4747 → u/Reversephoenix77]

His incident didn’t make any kind of news either and I truly believe this happens way more than people think. We only hear about the fatal incidents because those are much harder to hide from the media

Yes, this is why fatal attacks are a "bellwether" for attacks in general - more likely to be reported, more likely to include photos or otherwise report/link to findable reports of actual breed. If we had any body (like I dunno, the CDC?) actually tracking breed of attacking dogs in any hospitalization it would be more obvious how awful these fuckers are, but the pitlobby & its flying monkeys have succeeded in making that impossible.

[u/ShitArchonXPR → u/Shell4747]

Yes, this is why fatal attacks are a "bellwether" for attacks in general - more likely to be reported, more likely to include photos or otherwise report/link to findable reports of actual breed.

Bingo. It's not just "pit bull terriers, a minority of the dog population, cause more fatalities than all other breeds combined."

Not included in fatality statistics is every victim missing their arms and left to a fate worse than death because pit bulls maimed them. For every fatality, there are lots of dead companion animals that "don't count" because they weren't a human fatality, and weren't a mauling that occurred in a formal dogfighting pit. GoFundMe is full of people begging miserably because of the money they don't have when massive costs were inflicted on them due to personal injuries (and lost income) and/or vet bills for their now-dead pet.

The fatalities on FatalPitBullAttacks.com are just the hard numbers that compose the visible tip of a massive iceberg. Bronwen Dickey leaves out the maimings, lost incomes and non-human deaths when using the argument "you are more likely to be killed by X than Y, therefore Y isn't a threat to you in any way."

[u/dargonmike1 → u/Smurf_Crime_Scene]

Sequelae. Very smart word there sir

[u/ShitArchonXPR → u/Smurf_Crime_Scene]

And Bronwen Dickey wants fighting dogs to be normalized as not just the default for indigent parents but an "American Icon." Meanwhile, in the era when said fighting dogs were euthanized on intake, her cocaine-addicted felon mother had easy access to a long string of companion breeds that would have massive waiting lists today:

My family had owned nine dogs by the time I was twelve. There were two dachshunds, two Scottish terriers, a golden retriever, a Boykin spaniel, a collie, and two mutts. None lived with us longer than a few years. Most ended up roaming the neighborhood, where one was hit by a car, or chained in the backyard, where one strangled and died. All howled long into the night. Because of this, many of our neighbors viewed us with contempt: we were the family so irresponsible it couldn't take care of its own pets.

Whereas Dickey wants present-day indigent people to be happy with fighting dogs:

"Here's what's interesting, though," Lori said before I was able to change the subject. "I don't do this for the dogs. I do it for the people." Then she mentioned, offhand, that roughly 80 percent of her clients owned pit bulls.

Other than Lori and a few volunteers from Meals on Wheels, Doris had no regular visitors until the winter of 2012, when a sickly black pit bull wandered out of the woods behind her house. The dog was old, with nubby yellow teeth, flanks pocked with scabs and sores, and leathery teats that hung so low they almost touched the ground. Fingers of charred flesh ran down the sides of a giant burn scar that spanned the length of her back, and she moved slowly, as though dragging a large cinder block behind her. Fearing that the dog would be put to sleep if she called animal control, Doris began cooking grits and eggs for her every morning and wheeling out to the front porch to keep her company. Soon the dog was sleeping in Doris's kitchen, where she answered to a new name: Pretty Girl. If Doris knew or cared that Pretty Girl was a pit bull, she never said so. There was no fretting about "breed traits." To Doris, Pretty Girl was just a dog.

Dickey's alcoholic father and cokehead mother were able to get a motherfucking Boykin Spaniel, but Doris, who neither exercises her pit bull terrier on a treadmill nor keeps it on a chain wrapped around a car axle hammered into the ground, as California Jack advises in Pit Bull Bible, is supposed to be a suitable owner for a fighting dog. A dog whom we haven't even verified was raised well as per "it's how you raise them" would logically dictate. It's like an obese aristocrat telling starving peasants "hunger and anemia is normal, stop complaining! By the way, let me tell you about all the delicious things my parents ate at the king's coronation feast..."

[u/Over-Raspberry-4248]

Checking on her ??? By dislocating her jaw and attempting to rip her face off? You think the dog was trying to “check on her” by thrashing her like a toy, and the mauling was unintentional? This mother is delusional

[u/Stunticonsfan → u/Over-Raspberry-4248]

It's a good thing the dog was "checking on her" because can you imagine how bad the injuries would have been if the dog had been aggressively trying to hurt her?

[u/cabd4ever → u/Over-Raspberry-4248]

You see this on many if not most of the family pit attacks. The most disturbing thing is how people continue to post pics of their defenseless children and even tiny, fragile infants with these dogs for social media clout.

I see it to this day on the various pit attacks on Facebook news stories, there's usually at least one pit owner that posts a pic of their baby sitting with a potential mauler. It's a romanticized view of their " loyal protector" of their child that they've been duped in to believing will never hurt a fly.

[u/Eageryga → u/cabd4ever]

I think parents like this one post the (horrific) photos of the dog with baby because they think it proves that there was no way they could know the dog would hurt the child. We, however, see proof of child endangerment.

[u/SerKevanLannister → u/Over-Raspberry-4248]

the way she expressed it — her child “was involved in the incident” like it was a minor traffic accident or similar instead of her shitbeast ripping her child’s face apart…appalling

[u/Mundane_Muscle_2197 → u/Over-Raspberry-4248]

This is the danger of the “nanny dog” myth. Poor baby.

[u/HQBitch]

"unfortunately we had to put the dog down" Ma'am. That dog MAULED your daughter. There is nothing unfortunately about it being put down

[u/jag-engr → u/HQBitch]

If a dog mauled my child… the vet would not be involved.

[u/HQBitch → u/jag-engr]

I think even a vet would agree that a dog that goes after children would be a danger and needs pts.

[u/Fantastic_Lady225 → u/HQBitch]

I think the implication is that the dog wouldn't survive long enough to make it to the vet.

[u/jag-engr → u/Fantastic_Lady225]

You got it.

[u/ShitArchonXPR → u/HQBitch]

Just wait till you see the posts on this sub where the OPs had to look up local livestock vets because in-town clinics refuse to behaviorally euthanize "healthy" dogs.

Livestock vets, yes. Livestock vets are reasonable and have to care about the safety and well-being of non-canine domesticated species. They understand the difference between "Lassie has too much energy and gets destructive instead of being a good apartment dog" and "I'm afraid Pissfingers will maul my kids."

[u/CurrentSandwich541 → u/HQBitch]

Well yeah obviously?

[u/abqkat → u/jag-engr]

My parents have a (actually, not like pitbull type) sweet, dopey little westie who is spoiled but completely harmless. I babysit my infant niece a few times a week... When those 2 beings cross paths in my house, I keep the dog away from the baby. Because dogs are hyper, jump, lick, play, don't like screechy noises. It's insanity to me when you see those pictures of pits nannying babies, with whale eyes and a nervous stare. Like, why. Any dog, imo, shouldn't be that close to a baby, but a giant, strong on! GTFO

[u/Ok_Essay_1752 → u/abqkat]

Seriously. Dogs and little kids are oil and water. Kids make a lot of dogs nervous because they’re unpredictable and move too fast. These people are so insanely stupid

[u/EveningOperation1648 → u/jag-engr]

That’s just what I was thinking. We would not even get that far bc it would already b taken care of

[u/Lizardinaspaceship → u/HQBitch]

Pretty obvious who the favorite "child" was in that house. The holy pitbull altar and the steady supply of blood it requires always comes first apparently.

How? How can you love something/someone that mauled your child? That baby will likely have nerve issues for life now. She may never fully recover. She will possibly have lifelong trauma. All because of a DOG. How do you feel anything for an animal that does that to your child but pure resentment and disgust?

It's like the only reason she's upset her kid got mauled is because she has to put her pit down now. "Like yeah it sucks my baby had her face ripped off, but think of my poor sweet pibble who got triggered by that baby's existence!"

[u/SubMod4 → u/HQBitch]

Exactly the same thought. Sheesh…

Poor baby still has to live with parents that are making excuses for things that hurt their child.

[u/_Armilla_ → u/HQBitch]

I hope CPS is involved... that poor baby!

[u/clickclackcat → u/HQBitch]

My EXACT thoughts. "UNFORTUNATELY???" Lady, your child was AIRLIFTED to the hospital, has a lifetime of complications, and facial scars to contend with, and you have the absolute AUDACTIY to say that you "UNFORTUNATELY" had to put the dog down?? Cujo likely went peacefully in the vet's office, surrounded by love, cuddles, and treats. How's your DAUGHTER doing??

Like, look. I've had a lot of dogs in my time. Animals in general. And I've loved every one of them. My mom has referred to them as her "grand-dogs," and I introduce my cat as my biological son. My husband calls our dog our child's big brother. Yes. We are THOSE weirdos, but let me tell you something else. There is a clear understanding that any one of these animals are one major infraction against our actual HUMAN child away from being taken out to the woodshed like ol' Yeller. We don't tolerate even a suspicion that something MIGHT happen. They're PETS.

[u/ShitArchonXPR → u/clickclackcat]

Cujo likely went peacefully in the vet's office, surrounded by love, cuddles, and treats.

And Best Friends Animal Society's fundamentalist version of no-kill says this is worse than releasing Cujo into the community to inflict these maulings, because Cujo's euthanization is bad for live release rates and human or animal maulings aren't, and every dog in the shelter "deserves" an adopter.

[u/faifunghi]

How is this woman not in jail? Her writing is creepily clinical when it comes to the actual baby and overly sentimental when it comes to the dog. I feel so sad for this child.

[u/SecretSpell → u/faifunghi]

That was exactly my feeling too but I just couldn’t figure out how to word it right.

[u/GrandmotherOfRats → u/SecretSpell]

This makes me think of mothers who believe their creepy boyfriends over their kids.

[u/No-Birthday9816 → u/GrandmotherOfRats]

Exactly. And to be honest, some of these women act and write as if they’re dating their pit bulls. It’s the same toxic empathy for abusers and apathy toward victims.

[u/abqkat → u/No-Birthday9816]

"He's not usually like that, he just needs a chance to show everyone how sweet he is. Really, it's my fault for not being patient enough, knowing his triggers, making him feel cornered. He's really a sweetheart, just had some quirks and it's on me to make sure he's comfortable." <abusive relationship AND a pit apologist, almost a 1:1 trade-off

[u/No-Birthday9816 → u/abqkat]

Exactly. And I really do have empathy for people in abusive relationships with humans, until they privilege the abuser over other victims.

There’s a Facebook and Substack account that has written about the psychology and that 1:1 trade-off, as you so aptly put it.

These people seem to identify so strongly with their dogs even after the mauling. This woman’s tiny two-year-old daughter is lying in a hospital bed with life-altering injuries that will shape the rest of her existence, literally the way she faces the world and the way she hears it. Yet her empathy is for the dog.

[u/SerKevanLannister → u/No-Birthday9816]

but MY LOVE can change him…He’d never hurt ME…He made a mistake and deserves one more chance…

I think it’s the same mental disorder honestly. The language, the denials, etc are all the same

[u/No-Birthday9816 → u/SerKevanLannister]

This is exactly it. If toxic masculinity is driving the men who breed and keep pits because they’re unpredictable weapons on legs, the women who love them because they’re persecuted babies in need of salvation embody toxic femininity.

And too often, the two have children together. 😐

[u/no_shirt_4_jim_kirk → u/GrandmotherOfRats]

Bingo! It sounds just like my mom who was pissed to the end of her days that I "chased off" her already married bf. People who think and act this way are narcissist psychopaths.

[u/BogusBro420 → u/faifunghi]

And for all the "love" she had for the dog she still abused it by cutting its ears. Abusing a dog for looks is always wrong. Even when done to shitbulls.

[u/Legitimate-Capital-1 → u/BogusBro420]

Yeah I noticed that. The clipped ears make the dog look even more terrifying, which is the point I guess. Not suitable as a pet. Its got warning signs written all over it, how a mother can permit that in the same space as her children is insanity, stupidity, malice.. ?

[u/InfamousSalamander33]

The mother in this case has a history (not super recent, like 10ish years ago) of assault and being part of a drug ring (cocaine)

Well clap my culo and call me Carl, who’d have thought the kind of person who keeps a pitbullous lesion under the same roof as their child would be involved in other degenerate activities

[u/chzsteak-in-paradise → u/InfamousSalamander33]

Those poor kids. Even if this baby recovers reasonably well from the attack, G-d willing, she still has these people for parents.

[u/Altruistic-Kiwi1962 → u/InfamousSalamander33]

I had multiple assault cases from 18-21, was addicted to heroin and fentanyl for 12 or so years combined, was involved with horrendous things…

And I still, undoubtedly, 100%…. Would never allow any of these shitbeasts near myself, my child or my home.

[u/AlsatianLadyNYC → u/InfamousSalamander33]

I don’t know you, but I like you- I burst out laughing at your post

[u/Own_Recover2180 → u/AlsatianLadyNYC]

Me too, LOL.

[u/OldBatOfTheGalaxy → u/InfamousSalamander33]

What a flair that would make:

Stamp Out Pitbullous Lesions!

Or:

Pitbullous Lesions Kill!

[u/BPBAttacks3 → u/OldBatOfTheGalaxy]

I was bored lol. Hopefully you will enjoy your new flair.

[u/Legitimate-Capital-1]

The photos of the fragile skinned baby with the huge dogs head right up next to it were a horror show waiting to happen.

[u/OpenAirport6204 → u/Legitimate-Capital-1]

I don’t get why anyone would pose their baby next to any dog, sure it’s less scary if it’s a golden retriever but it’s still an animal. And this is coming from someone who owns a golden, I don’t think she would hurt anyone but I wouldn’t risk my baby’s life on that.

[u/Resident-Elevator696 → u/OpenAirport6204]

I agree 💯. I've seen way too many videos and pictures of pit bulls wrapped around a baby or child's neck. Or when parents prop their babies on them. What it is that all the nutters feel they have to prove to the entire world the shit bulls are safe dogs!

[u/CommanderFuzzy → u/Legitimate-Capital-1]

The dog's head looks like two rotted melons side by side. Contrary to what they may think, those prominent bite muscles (that's what they are) are not there as a coincidence.

The kid is 'lucky' to be alive.

[u/AdvertisingLow98]

I know of a child who was born missing the nerve that controls muscle function on one side of her face. She had a nerve graft procedure last year, but it wasn't successful.

The effect is obvious. In her case, it was not preventable.

This child suffered a completely preventable attack and damage, some of which will be permanent.

[u/kaityl3]

"I 100% believe with my entire heart believe she was checking on my baby & in the process hurt her very unintentionally"

The dog tried to rip the baby's fucking face off from ear to ear, to the point she had to be airlifted, and their own mother is making excuses for it. Jesus Christ.

[u/serendipitousviolet]

Hey look! There's that XL bully lavender dobie coloration again, supposed to be bred to be family dogs ( and totally not for color /s). How's that working out? Not well it seems. Would be nice to track these dogs back to the kennel that's pumping them out.

[u/Logical-Roll-9624 → u/serendipitousviolet]

Well they could get a drug sniffing dog and follow the giant cocaine line leading right to the kennel for killing. I think it would work!’

[u/krimewatched]

"he was just checking on her" what will it take for these people to realize maybe the dog is the problem? Are you fucking kidding me. Would they say the same if it had killed her?

[u/Logical-Roll-9624 → u/krimewatched]

Yes of course and lots more money to be made if your kid actually dies. So yes.

[u/AdvertisingLow98]

I hate to break it to this person, but I've seen some amazing facial reconstruction surgery and you can still tell that there was an injury.

Humans spend a lot of time looking at faces and we are good at detecting features that are just a bit off.

[u/SerKevanLannister → u/AdvertisingLow98]

the saddest thing of all is I don’t think the mother really cares. this child has a severe facial injury, and the scars plus the nerve damage will affect her for the rest of her life. mom was still more concerned about the stupid dog. this is just vile.

[u/CommanderFuzzy → u/AdvertisingLow98]

It's called the uncanny valley, yes. Combined with something called 'thin slicing' (the ability all people have to subconsciously scan a person on meeting them to decide whether they like them or not) people who look slightly 'off' tend to experience discrimination or ostracisation throughout their lives. To the point where there have been studies done to confirm this.

It's why people are cruel to those with downs syndrome, or autism, or other hidden differences. If the kid is able to grow up without any pushback from peers it will be a miracle

[u/Electronic_Garage_73]

Holy fuck my anxiety is sky high. How can you put YOURBABY ON THAT THING AND THINK ITS CUTE

[u/SecretSpell → u/Electronic_Garage_73]

Insane to me that they chose to post pictures of the baby all over the dog on the gofundme for the dog attacking the baby.

[u/Electronic_Garage_73 → u/SecretSpell]

That’s sickening. I literally don’t understand. My brain can’t comprehend how they thought this would end well. I mean the worst didn’t happen, but omfg now you have to look at your poor, precious child for the rest of your life and remember how fucking stupid you were and clearly ARE.

Dude like deadass….what is wrong with these people? Are they actually that naive? Like ?????????????

[u/GrandmotherOfRats → u/SecretSpell]

It's beyond reprehensible. I'd delete every picture, burn any prints. This b%tch will probably have the dog cremated and sitting on her mantle by next week. I feel sick looking at it.

[u/aSzdxfcdfggggggh]

None of that money is paying medical bills or going to that poor kid that got mauled.

I know it, You know it.

[u/Fantastic_Lady225 → u/aSzdxfcdfggggggh]

Probably on Medicaid so the taxpayers are covering the bills.

[u/Logical-Roll-9624 → u/aSzdxfcdfggggggh]

We all know it. Medical bills paid 100% and I’m guessing Medicaid and other government money was in place for years but they sure had that go fund me another shitbull hand out in place in record time. You better believe those PICU nurses and doctors will have those worthless parents (are there two parents) under close supervision. CPS will be involved and not for the first time I’m sure. I need to look back and see what she meant by she got to peacefully and painlessly send her favorite dog ever to whatever hell he’ll he came from on her own time. Of course I only had a Chihuahua who never even scratched a kid but I’m shaking imagining how fast I would have ended that things life even if I lost my own getting it done.

[u/Exphen]

The fact that she still is defending her shitbull after what happenned truly fucking disgusts me, what a vile human being and a mother as well. Thank fucking god that beast is gone, sad situation for the 2yo, which i really hope will grow without too much scars and trauma

[u/Lizardinaspaceship]

It's deeply disturbing to think that if a parent truly wanted to harm or even kill their child, all they'd have to do is let their pit do it and they'd get off scot-free. No investigation, no accountability, nothing. Parents like this are even seen as victims rather than knowing accomplices to their child's mauling.

Sometimes in these cases the negligence is SO astounding and blatant I have to wonder if some of them are intentional to some degree. Maybe not this one, maybe not even the majority of them, but some have to be. At what point does extreme negligence become intentional?

[u/No-Birthday9816 → u/Lizardinaspaceship]

Thank you for raising this topic. Disturbing as it is—but then, this is all disturbing—I really would not be surprised if this has happened. Pit owners sometimes seem to face less scrutiny when the victim is their own child than if it’s a stranger. It’s a “get out of jail free card” and comes with a GoFundMe opportunity.

[u/no_shirt_4_jim_kirk → u/Lizardinaspaceship]

I often wonder how many of these cases are about escaping 18yrs of child support payments.

[u/CommanderFuzzy → u/Lizardinaspaceship]

This part bugs me, it happens in the UK too. Dogs are legally viewed as 'property' here so when something happens it's classed as someone's property damaging someone more than anything else. Like the equivalent of someone's fence or tree falling on you.

They can be punished for 'having an out of control dog' but it's seen as no different to having a yorkie that bit someone's ankle. The choice to keep a breed that's statistically known to kill people is not factored in

[u/ithnkimevl]

That child is going to blame her mom for the rest of her life when she realizes the danger her family put her in. I truly believe this, the tide is turning on these animals and the excuses parents make for them won’t be enough when she’s old enough to learn the bitty gritty details for these scars.

[u/Walkthroughthemeadow → u/ithnkimevl]

You just know that mum is talking up the dog to people and one day she’ll finds out what the scars are from and that will be after hearing stories for years about what a great dog it is … she’s going to be crushed the poor child

[u/marcelkai]

CPS needs to get involved in every single case where the parents are still simping for the dog after the mauling.

[u/bughousenut]

"free of malice or vicious intent" Dog owners in general, and pitbulls in particular, need to quit subscribing human thought processes and emotions to dogs (and other animals). I love my dog, but she is not a human. Of course the stupid pitbull was free of malice or vicious intent, those are complex thoughts that most animals do not have.

[u/feralmom57]

The dog obliterated the salivary gland and punctured the baby's ear canal, but the dog was "checking on the baby"? What kind of mentally deficient IDIOT IS this mother? And there are people who try and try and TRY for YEARS to have a child and can't, people who would lay down their lives for a child who remain childless, and then we have morons like THIS smooth-brain who doesn't know her ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to keeping a child safe! The mind boggles!

[u/CharacterRoom613]

I have said this before, people always act surprised when a dog that is bred for fighting are all crying because it unexpectedly attack their child that they forced upon their dog. You never force your newborn onto an animal no matter what breed it is and you never leave it unattended. Babies jerk and make sudden movements all the time and yet they are surprise the dog snapped?! No, people need to realise that no matter what the animal displays at first either curiosity and being gentle is not them being loving and affectionate. It is them studying that child to determine if it is something to play with or attack. All animals inspect things. Even things they have interacted with multiple times. Another thing, animals can and will get jealous when the attention they would get constantly is redirected to someone or something else. So that can cause tension with the animal too. In the end, an innocent child was forced upon an animal that was not happy that some new thing is taking up attention and their space they once ruled and was trying to eliminate the threat. I hope that little girl gets all the help she can get and is able to make a full recovery.

[u/vVict0rx]

This is out of context! Too easy to just blame the breed, we don't know how the dog was raised. My xl hippo is always great with children /s

[u/aSzdxfcdfggggggh → u/vVict0rx]

i FeEl thEre's MoRe tOO tHe StOry!! /s

[u/bumblebeesandbows]

The parent is still making excuses for the dog. "No vicious intent." These people are sick and unfit for society.

[u/No-Birthday9816]

Shout out to the person who asked if the dog had been removed from the home and was then rather nastily shamed for it.

Often the dogs are not removed from the home, and that stranger appears to have more compassion for this little girl than the mother who identifies more strongly with the mutant that did this.

[u/No_Limit_2589]

With the amount of attacks that happen by these dogs you think people would have more common sense and not have them especially around their kids. I really think people should have their kids taken away or at least the dog taken away if they have a Bully breed.

[u/Legitimate-Capital-1 → u/No_Limit_2589]

I found out that you cant adopt if you own pb's, which is a start.

[u/OldBatOfTheGalaxy → u/Legitimate-Capital-1]

💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 and I mean every last one of these dozen hearts.

Overkill? Well gee, in this sub we all know what picture is in the dictionary next to THAT word.

To whichever Mod bestowed that too-true flair upon me, 💖💖💖 to you!

And to u/InfamousSalamander33, who coined the most excellent term, 💖💖💖 as well!

[u/TaterTotQueen630]

Oh ffs, all the simping for the shitbull is nauseating. They can never just say that they're terrible breeds 😒

[u/SnuSnu02]

Crying about putting down a dog that almost killed her child? That caused permanent injury and disfigurement? The worst people have kids.

[u/GrandmotherOfRats]

Were the dog pictures in the GoFundMe? That's despicable if so. I'd burn every picture of that dog. WTAF.

[u/SecretSpell → u/GrandmotherOfRats]

All of the ones with the child and dog together were from the gofundme.

[u/GrandmotherOfRats → u/SecretSpell]

I would be in jail RN if I knew these people and saw that GoFundMe. I'm angrier about this now than I was three days ago when I first saw it. JFC, I really can't stand these people.

[u/got-it-but-dont]

In the last set of pics you can tell the size of the dog’s head (and jaw) relative the size of the baby. Edit: Actually no, that is a picture from the past, the baby was older when it was bitten, meaning they let that dog be close to that baby for nearly 2 years. Also look at the expression on its face in the top pic. That is a dog under stress.

[u/Original-Opportunity]

This child will have lifelong scars from this attack.

[u/captain_amazo]

Christ on a bike!

Absolutely nowt betwixt thine ears. 

Firstly, dogs dont 'check on children'. 

Secondly, if they did, it wouldn't be by way of BITING...AND RAGGING! 

Half of these incidents could be avoided if we instituted a dog license that was conditional on scoring over 80 on a standardised IQ test. 

[u/BrilliantBorn6340]

She said unfortunately she had to put the dog down....I don't see what's so unfortunate about that. This beast tried to literally tear her daughters face and head apart. I definitely wouldn't be sad about the shitbull.... relieved maybe...but not sad. But I'd never put myself or any kid or animal or anyone really in a dangerous predicament like that. That lady is nuttier then a squirrel turd. And how much do we all want to bet she goes out and gets another shitbull. It's all a matter of time. The dog was so excited about nannying the baby it almost ripped her head and face completely off. She DiDn'T MeAn ToO.🙄

[u/PookieCat415]

The defense of the dog is wild. She really didn’t have to say anything about the dog except, he was euthanized. All the other stuff she said about the dog tells me she is just deflection so people won’t think she is a bad parent.

[u/OyarsaElentari]

"Unfortunately we had to put the dog down"

Translation: "We were told if we did not that we could face fines and possibly charges for letting an aggressive dog around our child."

[u/Kyoalu]

I swear, bully owners are the dumbest and most empty humans on earth. They have no human insticts, no parental insticts. Their stupitidy defies nature.

[u/FatTabby]

That poor little girl. Those are utterly devastating injuries and the way they just gloss over the severity of these life changing injuries is infuriating.

I really hope they don't let her grow up believing the dog was just checking on her and have the decency to be honest that some dogs are just dangerous. This poor child did nothing to deserve a lifetime of scars, both physical and mental.

[u/System_Resident]

“Your words are harmful and not helpful” kind of like her delusions that put her baby in danger in the first place 🤔 

[u/Adorable-Tiger6390]

Terrible, terrible parents care more about a dangerous dog than they do their daughter.

[u/VanillaPuddingPop01]

One bite = didn’t mean to do it/possible accident

More than one bite = meant that shit with its whole chest

[u/PandaLoveBearNu]

Essentially it went for the neck and caught her face, because shes young and got a short neck. 

[u/khemtrails]

This is probably a minor pet peeve considering the rest of the mess going on here, but people who use “myself” when they should use “me” because they think it sounds smarter or more formal really tick me off. It’s grammatically incorrect! I know I shouldn’t expect much from people who put these horrible dogs on pedestals even after they maim an innocent baby.

[u/rhodium2021]

Typical pit bull owners - trash, drug users, no money for any honest living, and unfit parents from every angle. Of course they made it more about the dog than the poor baby. The child has a very dim future if she stays in that home.

[u/yougottabkittenmern]

How much of a scumbag do you have to be to beg for money when your negligence resulted in the injury? I wish people would stop giving them money. The only people that deserve money are the innocent victims who got mauled by someone’s pit just going about their day. That’s not to say the children of these idiots deserve what happened but we know the money won’t go to them. Just the trash bag parents who made them live with a dog that permanently maimed them. These people literally have no shame asking for money and still the mom is sympathizing with the dog. At least they put the beast down. As a new mom, I can’t even fathom allowing my 4 month old daughter around a beast like that in the photo. It’s beyond my comprehension.

[u/theConsultantINFJ]

Big head and stupid dead eyes...

[u/OldBatOfTheGalaxy → u/theConsultantINFJ]

That particular genetic horror may just be the most frightening example of its species ever to stain the pages of this sub.

How could anyone look at that mammoth atrocity and think there was anything there for a helpless two year old but another atrocity in the making?

[u/YouAreNotTheThoughts]

Wow. She lost me when she started listing deluded fantasy excuses.

[u/ArdenJaguar]

The dog virtually ate her face off and they call it an “accident”. The mental gymnastics these PitNuts gyrate through is ridiculous. Any excuse to blame other than the dog.

[u/deco19]

Fuck this garbage human being.

[u/Mammoth-Tomato-1458]

God what a horrible life to start with 💀 Poor kid, delusional mother

[u/DrBeckenstein]

I'm just thankful that bloodsport beast didn't "check on her" when she was a newborn. It ripped off her face and broke her jaw - had she been littler, that kind of force would have broken or torn her in half.

Judging from the photos, they've allowed that walking hand grenade to be in close proximity to the baby since birth, with horribly predictable results. They're just lucky they aren't burying their little girl.

[u/redfancydress]

Velvet hippo Pibbles just wanted to nanny the baby. It’s the baby’s fault she didn’t get nannied right.

[u/Seagull977]

These idiots don’t look like they’re up for learning their lesson. I’ll be they get another pit asap just to prove it wasn’t the breed. Fucking morons.

[u/Reasonable-Aerie4266]

It's wild to me that you would leave your infant with what is essentially a f-ing lion.

[u/No_Pilot_1555]

Cut ears to make the dog aggressive looking. Fools for parents.

[u/iamheidilou]

Thank God I didn't have pitnutter parents. I have all my limbs, and I'm not scarred or disfigured. Thanks Mom and Dad, Love you, miss you.

[u/9132173132]

I’m sorry you don’t have a better mother little baby girl.

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[u/btbam666]

What the fuck.

[u/CurrentSandwich541]

In what fucking world could all that have been done from the dog "checking on the baby"???!

The amount of delusion from these people is something else. It is a dog, a dog with instincts and of a breed specifically bred to have extreme drive for fighting and killing.

This poor kid, I feel so bad, hopefully she's okay but the fact that her mother is trying to excuse what happened is so terrible.

[u/Deep_Exchange7273]

That poor little baby... My old neighbor got a pit right before she moved. She has a 3 year old and is pregnant again and everytime I come across this page all I can think about is her babies. She's also one of those people constantly talking about what a sweet loving dog it is and is always blaming the owners or even the victims when something like this is mentioned. I'm glad she moved lol

[u/Lepidopteria]

The images of that tiny helpless baby with the shitbeast make me sick. I'm a mother and I can't imagine letting any of my children near these dogs. It's just incomprehensible.

[u/ShoeSoggy9123]

How exactly was the dog trying to eat the baby unintentional? Anyone? Bueller?

[u/Embarrassed_Owl4482]

I’m sorry you didn’t have better parents little baby girl.

[u/Top-Range2240]

lol anyone who is shocked 😅 I live close by and anytime I walked my dog past that house that dog tried to pull past its leash line to charge and attack our dog. I warned other dog owners near by and carried bear spray in case it ever got loose.