r/TikTokCringe • u/GhostofTinky • Aug 25 '26

Discussion This is a disaster waiting to happen.

The dog isn’t allowed to be around a toddler because he growls at her. I don’t get it. A family dog is supposed to get along with the whole family. Why are the parents concerned about why the dog “doesn’t like her”? What about the child’s safety?

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u/stevebobeeve Aug 25 '26

Look. I hate the idea of euthanasia as much as anybody, and I would certainly try to find any avenue to avoid that. But at the end of the day you have to remember that this has always been the bargain between dogs and humans. For 30,000+ years of domestication. We keep the docile ones and the aggressive ones have to be destroyed. That’s always been the deal. It’s how we even have dogs to begin with.

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u/Zadsta Aug 25 '26

This is such a huge issue in rescue. I spent 6 months as the animal care manager at a dog rescue and we had to euthanize a dog for behavior. Our on staff behaviorists and outside behavior consultants spent MONTHS trying to get this dog safe to adopt out, but there was no amount of training that would make this dog safe. When the decision was made, 70% of our staff quit in protest. This was not a “oh this dog growled at someone once” and was euthanized. There were months of work invested and of course no one wanted to see this dog die, but what do you do with a dog that is aggressive towards most people, all men, children, and all other animals? People love to think “there’s a home for every dog” but the reality is there are very few people willing to take an aggressive dog and it’s a HUGE liability for a rescue to risk their reputation if the dog does attack someone. We would much rather make room in our facility for a dog that can actually be saved than indefinitely hold a dog that is a danger to all our staff and volunteers. BE is always a last resort but it does have its place, I wish more people in rescue understood that.

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u/OneWayToLivComic Aug 25 '26

Curious if the staff that quit in protest would've adopted said dog 

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u/Zadsta Aug 25 '26

They all had other animals or other people in their homes, so they couldn’t. But they did expect the rescue to keep investing time and money into the dog waiting for some miracle adopter.

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u/WPI94 Aug 25 '26

One would think if anyone would really understand, it would be this group of people. Surprising.

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u/solicitorpenguin Aug 25 '26

I think the problem was the sunken cost fallacy and if no time had been invested no one would have cared 

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u/Spankety-wank Aug 25 '26

now you know what to ask at interviews at least