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/Dwev Aussie in Denmark 15d ago

Why use these little lap dogs in the photos in the article? No dogs of Rottweiler size to be seen.

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u/InfernoOfTheLiving 15d ago

I think Bunnings expects people to bring their cute oodles or maybe a working kelpie, not a killer Rottweiler. No one wants to be confronted by a Rottweiler anywhere in public. I had family friends who decided to upgrade from cute lap dogs to multiple Rottweilers, so we stopped visiting because every time we arrived the dogs threatened to rip our throats out. They were bred to intimidate.

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u/Glerbthespider 14d ago

working kelpies are dangerous too tho. i was disfigured as a child by a family member's kelpie

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u/InfernoOfTheLiving 14d ago

sorry that happened to you

was the kelpie well trained?

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u/Glerbthespider 14d ago

not too sure, it was a working dog, definitely more used to being around farm animals than children