This dogsitting fatality is long and filled with drama. It’s also filled with clear warning signs that the people involved were not stable, healthy adults with functioning boundaries and equality in the relationship, as usual with these dogsitting cases.

Although the baby was killed several years ago, the story is in the news right now because their names were redacted for privacy, a decision generally not provided in other cases of child violence and negligence.

I’m highlighting it because it’s part of our dogsitting category. Here are the sociological points of this #newborn #fatality:

The dog’s name was Bear. That goes well with our #whatsinaname category.

Bear was problematic enough that the 21 year old owner was unable to leave him at home and unable to bring him to a party. He didn’t have good control over the dog and it was known to escape.

The owner decided his smartest option was to leave this animal with innate killing capacity in the home of a mother with a 3 day old newborn. Yes. A woman just had a baby and he felt she was the obvious choice to care for a difficult dog. Her partner had died prior to birth so she was also twice as vulnerable and alone. #entitlement #user #taker #manipulator

The mother, literally still bleeding after birth with a 3 day old newborn, agreed to this. She also repeatedly publicly defends the owner and tries to justify and #rationalize everything that occurred, taking full blame for the murder. #codependent #giver #noboundaries #alcoholicfamilysyndrome

Her baby died because she went to the bathroom, during which the dog grabbed the newborn and attempted to bury the newborn’s body outside.

Say NO to dogsitting animals that have the innate capacity to harm you or your loved ones. Say NO to dogsitting someone’s problem. Say NO to caring for an animal that licensed and trained professionals refuse to dogsit.

Say NO.

rottweiler #rottweilerlife #killing #mauling #narcissts #predatorblindness #noinstincts

Read the news story here.