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Yesterday,while playing with our almost seven month old Newfoundland, my daughter was bitten. I use the term loosely, because while the injury WAS caused by a tooth in his mouth, it was not a bite. They were playing fetch, she went to throw his toy, and the dog jumped up to get it. She threw the toy as his mouth opened to get it from her. End result, she had a half centimeter laceration that I chose (ER doc said it was up to me whether or not to suture as it was not very big or deep) to have sutured (one stitch) as it was near her lip. She is a very active child and I didn't want to take a chance that while roughhousing with her brother it would open back up.
Last night she called her father, my ex husband, to tell him about her "cool blue stitch". His response was that we need to get rid of the puppy because he's obviously dangerous. He has always had an irrational fear of dogs and has tried to project on the kids. My question then, is there anything he can do legally that would cause us to have to give the puppy away? Newfoundlands while huge, are known to be a gentle, passive breed. This was, to us, just a puppy being a puppy, and an accident. If he presses the issue, what could possibly be the end result? The kids would be devastated if if we had to give him away.
Yesterday,while playing with our almost seven month old Newfoundland, my daughter was bitten. I use the term loosely, because while the injury WAS caused by a tooth in his mouth, it was not a bite. They were playing fetch, she went to throw his toy, and the dog jumped up to get it. She threw the toy as his mouth opened to get it from her. End result, she had a half centimeter laceration that I chose (ER doc said it was up to me whether or not to suture as it was not very big or deep) to have sutured (one stitch) as it was near her lip. She is a very active child and I didn't want to take a chance that while roughhousing with her brother it would open back up.
Last night she called her father, my ex husband, to tell him about her "cool blue stitch". His response was that we need to get rid of the puppy because he's obviously dangerous. He has always had an irrational fear of dogs and has tried to project on the kids. My question then, is there anything he can do legally that would cause us to have to give the puppy away? Newfoundlands while huge, are known to be a gentle, passive breed. This was, to us, just a puppy being a puppy, and an accident. If he presses the issue, what could possibly be the end result? The kids would be devastated if if we had to give him away.