Okay I have to play the devil's advocate here. I am not condoning or defending what happened at all. In fact it is so sickening that this has been allowed to happen repeatedly. What I am saying is that all too often the dogs pay for the owner's crimes. That's what is not fair. Ridgebacks are sweet animals. We've had many in foster care and they have found loving homes where they've been wonderful pets.
These dogs shouldn't be euthanized but rather taken from these people and separated. After being separated awhile and worked with they can have the same chance at a long healthy life like our other ones have. When there are 2 or more dogs they develop a pack mentality. Once they do that, they are on the prowl for prey. That mentality though can be broken/retrained once they are not longer a pack.
That is awful that these dogs have been allowed to roam free and cause the damage they have but it's their owners fault, not theirs. I think they should be taken away whether by animal control or a humane group so that they can be worked with and placed in a proper home. Then I think the guy needs to be fined out the yin yang so in the event he contemplates doing this again, he may think twice.
Again, I want to say I'm not condoning or defending what has happened, only that there need to be stiffer fines, even jail time if need be, for negligent pet owners.
I just wanted to add something....I have nine dogs as you can see by my siggy line. When I had all of them there probably 12 total. Most are lab mixes, mutts, beagles etc. I used to have no trouble with my dogs at all until one day. I had all the lab mixes out like I usually did and for some reason one of them went after the other (daughter going after mom). The others were egging it on and trying to jump in as well. By the time I was able to break it up the momma's ear was almost completely torn off. I have never seen anything so gross in my life. We were able to have the ear reattached thank God. Needless to say after that I kept them separated for awhile because of fear of it happening again. I never allow those dogs together who actually instigated the fight since they had developed that 'pack' taste. I could have easily put one or two of them down b/c of what happened, but it was my fault in the first place. I was careless and I paid dearly for it.
So my point in saying this is that it can happen with any dogs that are allowed to go in packs whether it be pits, ridgebacks, labs, etc. If people are going to own animals then they need to be both responsible and accountable for the actions of those animals.
These dogs shouldn't be euthanized but rather taken from these people and separated. After being separated awhile and worked with they can have the same chance at a long healthy life like our other ones have. When there are 2 or more dogs they develop a pack mentality. Once they do that, they are on the prowl for prey. That mentality though can be broken/retrained once they are not longer a pack.
That is awful that these dogs have been allowed to roam free and cause the damage they have but it's their owners fault, not theirs. I think they should be taken away whether by animal control or a humane group so that they can be worked with and placed in a proper home. Then I think the guy needs to be fined out the yin yang so in the event he contemplates doing this again, he may think twice.
I just wanted to add something....I have nine dogs as you can see by my siggy line. When I had all of them there probably 12 total. Most are lab mixes, mutts, beagles etc. I used to have no trouble with my dogs at all until one day. I had all the lab mixes out like I usually did and for some reason one of them went after the other (daughter going after mom). The others were egging it on and trying to jump in as well. By the time I was able to break it up the momma's ear was almost completely torn off. I have never seen anything so gross in my life. We were able to have the ear reattached thank God. Needless to say after that I kept them separated for awhile because of fear of it happening again. I never allow those dogs together who actually instigated the fight since they had developed that 'pack' taste. I could have easily put one or two of them down b/c of what happened, but it was my fault in the first place. I was careless and I paid dearly for it.
So my point in saying this is that it can happen with any dogs that are allowed to go in packs whether it be pits, ridgebacks, labs, etc. If people are going to own animals then they need to be both responsible and accountable for the actions of those animals.
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