Hate to see that happen to the little girl. My first registered dog was a dachshund I bought for $40 when I was twelve and making thirty-five cents an hour. That was after owning a great mostly dachshund mutt. Don't know how many I have owned since then, at one time the ex had five in our house! Fine dogs and great companions.
When something like this happens nobody owns the attacking dog. Right after my first back surgery a huge german shepard attacked the wife's barrel horse two nights in a row. First night it took about ten or fifteen minutes to run it off. Second night it took about thirty seconds to introduce it to a load from a twelve gauge. A few cases in between but I never forgot my brother getting pneumonia when he was five while taking the set of twelve or fourteen rabies shots he had to take because someone hid the dog that bit him rather than it spend two weeks in confinement.
I didn't enjoy killing the german shepherd someone had dumped and left on it's own, obviously a well bred dog looking at it. Another time I killed an insane Labrador Retriever, again a dumped animal. Gorgeous head on this dog, again obviously well bred. It was going around nonstop snarling and growling and attacking everything it came across. My dogs that would stand up to almost anything were terrified of this animal. My dog that had to be dragged inside literally broke open the back door to escape this one. Before it bit a child or even killed one I killed the dog. I had three young children at the time.
I hate irresponsible pet and animal owners. Another man lets his cattle free graze in this day and time. When somebody hits one that wanders in the middle of the road late night it isn't marked and nobody owns the cow. Sometimes I wish I could shoot the owner instead of the animal that just doesn't know any better. I think I posted about this savage beast I rescued on my brother's land before:
After a little clean-up it looked like this:
How hard could it have been to find a home for a pup like this?
Stupid owners that don't control or take care of their animals are a very long term rant of mine! I do hope Mary is feeling better. Tough little dogs that dachshunds are she is probably healing fine and plotting getting some of her own back!
Hu