the dog. It would have been euthanized immediately.

I own a beagle and a beagle/basset mix. Both are very likely to approach a 1-year-old with tail wagging and apply a wet tongue to the child's face. Giggles are the inevitable result. My neighbor's 2 year old daughter was so attacked by the beagle/basset. Her comment was, "The doggie kissed me." She then dissolved into giggles and pulled the dog's ears. He attacked her again with his tongue in response.

Not an aggressive bone in either dog's body.

but they are all jaw and when they do get provoked by infants and toddlers, especially, they do one hell of a lot of damage. I wouldn't have one around kids under ten, period.

The dog would be put down if it were mine, too. Since it won't be, the kid's parents need to think hard and long about whether or not to take the kids back to Grandma's house. Grandma and Grandpa have some very weird priorities.

My two mutts have demonstrated their complete tolerance of young children doing things young children do on every occasion. They just wag their tails harder and lick faces more often. They think small children are delightful. The beagle/basset approaches small children the same way every time. He walks up to them slowly, tail furiously wagging. When he reaches them, he stops and lowers his head to invite pats. If the child doesn't do that, he loses interest and wanders off. If the child does pat him or pull his ears or something, he responds with a sloppy face lick. The tail never stops wagging.

Pit Bull Owners are exactly like Gun Owners, it's always this will never happen to me because my kids know not to pickup my guns or my dog is the sweetest dog in the whole world. It's complete delusional denial, do not leave children unattended with things that can kill them, better yet put away those things away when children are around. Your pit bull maybe the best dog for you, it does not mean it's the best dog for everyone else.

No.

A burial would be more appropriate.

Thoughts for her.

Got the middle finger on my right hand; left a deep gash that bled like crazy. The bathroom sink looked like an abattoir.

I should have gone to the emergency room to get stitches, but I decided that's not how I wanted to spend my day, so I cleaned the wound, wrapped three Band-Aids around it, and went back to work.

Point is: ALL dogs MAY bite. Doesn't matter what breed. And 1-year olds should not be around ANY dogs.

It was over before I knew what happened.

When my dog was bitten by a pit bull last year, the pit bull grabbed my dog's neck and would not let go for about 4 minutes. The dog was trying to rip open my dog's neck and would not let go despite being punched, kicked, yelled at, pulled at by its owner, etc. This was a "family dog" living with small children, who had escaped his yard to attack my dog. It was not the first time the dog had gotten out. When you have lots of children in and out, shit happens.

I would take a lab mix bite over a pit bull bite any day.

That hurt like a muthafucker, too. Bruised my arm pretty bad, but the lab-mix did more damage.

I've also been bit by German shepherd, a wolf, and a dachshund.

The lab-mix was the worst.

So my exposure to dogs is above average.

Often, the child unknowingly provokes the dog. My mother had the sweetest husky on the planet, but some friends visited with their four rowdy children. She called that they were very upset that the dog had nipped at one of the children and they were making noise about putting her down (the dog not actually bite). I asked how on earth that happened and she said one of the boys was beating her with a plastic sword while the other was trying to ride her upside down by hanging from her ears. Their mother was nearby, supposedly supervising, and the dog yelped multiple times but she never told the kids to stop. The dog finally yelped and turned to nip as she tried to get away. She could have bitten those hellyuns and I wouldn't have blamed her.

We both agreed it was not the dogs fault and the answer was to never allow the children over again.

Many children do not know how to act around dogs and vice versa. It is definitely the parents and the grandparents fault in this situation. I hope the dog is re-homed where he will not be around children, but I fear he will be euthanized.

any 1-year-old should not be unsupervised with any dog.

I've had dogs for 60 years, all kinds of breeds including pitbulls. I wouldn't keep a dog who bit a child. That being said, my childhood dog was a dobie and a great family dog, some folks would not have a dobie around kids. I have 5 dogs now, they are all big dogs although the pitbull is the smallest of the group. I don't have kids here, but when my grandson comes to visit all the dogs are in their dog yard and he does not enter the dog yard. He has a dog himself, they looked for this dog for over a year, they wound up with a pug. They got the dog when my grandson was 4, I told them don't get a dog that will knock him over, get a small dog. Get a dog from a family, get one with some manners, so they were lucky, they got a 2 year old pug who lived with kids prior to being taken to the shelter. He's a fabulous dog for a kid. My grandson is 10 now, he can easily handle this dog, walk it etc.
I love my dogs more than I love most people however I just wouldn't have a dog who bites, I also would not let a 1 year old near them.

I own and love dogs too, but a biter is almost always NOT a dog to have.....I mean there ARE situations, but for the MOST part, ANY dog who bites, HAS to go. Sad but true Ms Bigmack

A few years ago a friend of my husband came over with his teenage kids. I put my sweet pit bull in her crate and left the kids in the house to play video games as the adults sat on the deck. I heard my pit bull barking her head off and looked in the window and saw the kids banging on the crate. I yelled at them but I thought if one of them stuck his hand in the crate and got bit it would be my poor dog who paid the price. I am very mindful any of my dogs could be exhibiting normal dog behavior and pay the price because of a stupid person but like I said I would not keep a biter.

Stop and think about how we turned wild, feral dogs into gentle, goofy, slobber-monsters: We systematically removed all aggressive genes from the pool over a period of tens of thousands of years, with the exception being for dogs MEANT to be aggressive. Fido bites boy, Fido takes a dirt nap, Fido has no offspring, rinse and repeat.