Puppy Gnaws Off Infant's Toes

[johnnymk]

This is so sad!!

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/10514915/d...312122006&ts=H

Vet Thinks 6-Week-Old Puppy Tried To Nurse

BOSSIER CITY, La. -- A Louisiana couple is facing negligence charges after a puppy chewed off four of a baby girl's toes.

They told police they were awakened by their 1-month-old baby's cries on Sunday morning, saw her mangled foot and rushed her to the hospital. But doctors couldn't reattach the toes.

A veterinarian speculates the 6-week-old pit bull puppy might have been trying to nurse.

"She had a severe injury to one foot, with most of the toes missing," Bossier City spokesman Mark Natale told The Shreveport Times. "Patrol officers who responded notified detectives, and after our juvenile detectives unit looked into it, they determined the child, who had been sleeping in a baby carrier next to her parents, had been bitten by the family's pit bull puppy, who appears to have gnawed on the child's foot."

Natale told the newspaper that the parents took a mattress into their living room to watch television and fell asleep. The child was in an infant seat beside them when the pup began chewing on her toes.

"They did not see the dog injuring the child," Natale said.

The animal will be quarantined for 10 days and checked for rabies since it is too young to have had rabies shots. It's unclear what will happen to it after that.

The baby is now in foster care until the case against her parents is settled. Her parents, Mary Shannon Hansche, 22, and Christopher Wayne Hansche, 26, have been booked for investigation of child desertion and criminal negligence.

If convicted, the parents face a fine of up to $500 and up to six months in prison.

[BigJon]

That's why I don't like pets and kids...
Especially not while everyone is sleeping. If it were me, I would have kept the puppy locked up in a cage/kennel/room by itself anyways since god only knows what it's romping around and chewing/peeing on in the middle of the night.

[bachviet]

I guess it's a good thing that my wife doesn't like any pet.

This is just sad for the family.

[starkiis]

That is really sad. I wouldn't leave an animal anywhere near a baby

[Memo]

****in gross

[Napoleon54]

Isn't this how Little Shop of Horrors started? Maybe it's a mutant alien puppy. Better put it down before the neighbors start to disappear and it grows to 1,200 pounds.

[Dazzling]

That poor baby!!

[eSDee]

That's why I don't like pets and kids...
Especially not while everyone is sleeping. If it were me, I would have kept the puppy locked up in a cage/kennel/room by itself anyways since god only knows what it's romping around and chewing/peeing on in the middle of the night.

Puppies need to be crated in cases like these.

[Prngr44]

I agree... One I wouldn't let a pit bull around a baby to begin with, but a pit bull puppy??

I'd also think a parent would up at the slightest noise from a baby that age. I wonder if they were drunk and passed out??

[jaja]

so sad

[Sirrich3]

That is sad.... I agree that that puppy should have been in a cage or tied up or even in another room

[riskykougra]

The baby is now in foster care until the case against her parents is settled. Her parents, Mary Shannon Hansche, 22, and Christopher Wayne Hansche, 26, have been booked for investigation of child desertion and criminal negligence.

If they are being charged with child desertion it makes me wonder if they are suspected of not even being home at the time. One bite from a puppies sharp teeth and that baby would of howled...you'd have to be a completely dead sleeper not to have that wake you up. Sounds a lil suspicious to me...

[Napoleon54]

Puppies need to be crated in cases like these.

This also could have been prevented if the child was properly caged. www.babycage.net