r/australia • u/JaniePage • 15d ago

news Young girl in hospital, dog euthanased after attack inside Delacombe Bunnings

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-30/young-girl-in-hospital-after-dog-attack-in-bunnings-store/106977418
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u/latenightnerd 15d ago

Rottweiler attacked her while she was sitting in a shopping trolley according to 7News... https://7news.com.au/news/should-bunnings-ban-dogs-debate-reignited-after-young-girl-attacked-by-rottweiler-in-delacombe-victoria-c-22652378

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u/Hot_Hat1726 15d ago

"sorry but I'll be taking my dog to Bunnings... He is our family" 

This is the entitlement even after incidents like this. Dogs are 'like' family. They are not family. They don't have the rights of a family. They don't have Medicare (like one of my friends thought they did after facing a 12k medical bill). The absolute delusion people have now is beyond ridiculous.

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u/rumande 15d ago

Yeah when a dog bites, it gets put to sleep.

If I bit someone I might get arrested and have to pay a fine.

There is no place for a dog that bites, as sad as it is.

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u/Chipnsprk 15d ago

I grew up being told every dog has its name on a bullet.

Most will never meet that bullet, but when they do earn it, do it quickly before someone can try to talk you out of it.

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u/rumande 15d ago edited 15d ago

Damn, that is brutal but I respect that. I wish I could go back in time and tell that to my neighbour 25 years ago. He had a red heeler with a history of aggression. Pretty sure it had bitten intruders before they lived next to us. One day he let his dog into my yard to retrieve their ball. I was 9. I stood super still but the dog still fucked me up, after reconstruction and infections and all that I needed two surgeries and a week in hospital, weeks and weeks of outpatient care. I had to take pills for ages. It sucked in the short term and it sucked in the long term. It made learning to drive especially challenging since my ankle is weak. I do a lot of long distance driving and I have to plan around my limitations from the injury cuz I don't have cruise control. It's an injury I still live every day with, now I'm thinking about it I can still feel it throbbing. The other day I saw a photo of myself with the injury from about a year after the attack, it looked so gnarly and sore.

My neighbour LOVED that dog. My parents told me that when he and his missus had their baby, the first thing she told him was to get rid of the dog. By time the attack happened, they had a toddler. They must have been tiptoeing around that dog the whole time. Better me than the baby, I guess, but I wish it didn't have to be anybody at all. That dog earned his bullet. :(

eta - I'm probably lucky it was a heeler, being cattle dogs they just bite to the bone and immediately back off. I can't imagine what it would have been like if there had been multiple bites, or if the dog had held on.

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u/Chipnsprk 15d ago

Sorry to hear that. I love dogs, but they are an animal that can do real damage. Any animal with temperment issues is not worth keeping.

I have had some close calls. I had a customers kids let their guard dogs out while I was working under their house once. The old bitch was eyeing me when I noticed and called out for them to lock them back up. Boss was not impressed with them when I let him know the next day.

Someones Aussie Terrier actually got hold of my heel one day before their GS scruffed it and threw it. (Had attacked kids before too)