Hollace Dean Bennard, five-months-old, and Lilly Jane Bennard, two-years-old, were attacked by their family’s two pitbulls in Shelby County, Tennessee last week.
The tragic mauling deaths of a baby and toddler has reignited the debate about whether pitbulls should be kept as pets.attacked by their family’s two pitbullsTheir mother, Kirstie Jane Bennard, 30, was seriously wounded and has an “uncountable amount of stitches and bite marks over her entire body, including her face” from trying to stop the vicious attack.The notion that pitbulls are too dangerous to have as pets has been long debated.
news.com.au readers expressed their horror at the fatal dog attack in Tennessee, with some stating it’s impossible to ignore the statistics when it comes to deciding whether the breed is inherently dangerous or not.“Anyone who chooses to have them, especially around children, are fools in my opinion. This is such a sad story, and the worst way imaginable to learn that pitbulls are not a good idea,” wrote one reader on Facebook, gaining hundreds of likes in support.
ASPCA does say despite best efforts there will always be dangerous dogs that need to be properly cared for and controlled to reduce risk. “We don’t support breed-specific legislation – research shows that bans on certain types of dogs are largely ineffective and often a waste of public resources,” he said.
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