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My childhood dog killed the family of rabbits in our backyard the first spring we had him. Should we have put him down then and there since he was clearly a killer? What about ky husky that kills ever opossum that she comes across? Dogs are predators and it takes training to keep their killer instincts under control, and even then you can inly do so much.
I think it is a little different if it is your own pets vs someone else's. Why should the rest of community trust the judgment and ability of someone to retrain their dog after something like that, and their assurances that it won't happen again?
If there's a very high chance keeping a dog is going to result in violence being done to the people around you and their pets, maybe it shouldn't be an option in the first place. Breeds of dogs with very high prey drives, ownership of them should probably be more restricted than it is.
Has it bitten humans and was overly aggressive towards them too?