(Story Update) Dutch the dog to be put down

[The Straight Story]

Thanks to Beaverhausen in the original thread for the update:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022333652
Disabled vet asks for support; service dog faces euthanasia for biting woman who beat him w/pole

Dutch the dog to be put down

MONTROSE, Colo. (KKCO) -- The dog that caused an internet uproar in Montrose will be put down.

Judge Richard Brown for the Montrose Municipal Court handed down the decision Thursday morning after hearing testimony from Dutch the dog's owner, Jeremiah Aguilar, and the victim-- who, for safety reasons, has not been identified.

The four-year-old American Allaunt's story received national attention when it was published on DogHeirs.com. The writer claimed that the female victim-- Dutch's former owner and Aguilar's future sister-in-law-- beat the dog, which then attacked her out of self-defense.

Thousands shared the story, adding 264,712 signatures to the "Save Dutch the Service Dog" petition and 22,591 likes to the Facebook page "Save Dutch."

However, Judge Brown said Thursday that the internet portrayal of the victim as a cruel dog-hater isn't accurate.

According to Montrose Animal Control, on Nov. 14, 2013, the victim was taking care of Dutch while the Aguilars were out. Dutch got in a fight with one of the victim's dogs in her yard, so she tried to break up them up. She hit Dutch once with a tiki-torch, then pulled him away using his collar. Animal Control says as she began to clean blood off his face, Dutch turned on her. He bit her deeply on her buttock, thigh and hand before she was able to escape to her bedroom.

http://www.nbc11news.com/home/headlines/Dutch-the-dog-to-be-put-down-191262541.html

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Well that's going to make for some very tense familial relations. Shame on the "breeder," who, if

she was a respectable, responsible breeder would know how to better handle that situation and definitely wouldn't have turned one of her own dogs in--if she was responsible and acting for love of the breed. I call backyard money-making breeder, with deep underlying family issues--leading to a poor dog losing his life over it. Just my opinion of course.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

3. I think you may have the right of it. Very sad. n/t

[Auntie Bush]

2. Sooooooo very sad and unfair...the dog was traumatized by the whole incident.

He had just been hit repeatedly and thought he was being attacked again. This kind of situation would probably never happen again.

[Arcanetrance]

4. We as humans have become a plague

Upon the earth we no longer respect our animal brethren and have destroyed the only planet we have to live on the human race deserves whatever fate comes it's way

[Smilo]

5. Pity Dutch can't talk

we may hear the truth then.

Somehow, the "victim"'s story does not ring true - I would not want this family anywhere near any pets in future.

[life long demo]

6. This is just wrong, wrong, wrong

I don't believe that woman. AAGGHHH!