Beware of dogs babysitting

Thankfully some news doesn't repeat itself too often. But over the years, every so often a dog kills a baby. From today's Times:

Brooklyn Infant Is Killed by Family’s Dog

By THOMAS J. LUECK

An 8-month-old Brooklyn boy was mauled to death by his family’s Doberman pinscher on Thursday as the boy played on the floor of his apartment, the police said.

A similar tragedy occurred 130 years before.

February 12, 1877
AN INFANT KILLED BY A DOG

A short time after midnight yesterday Mrs. Kate Hartman, wife pf Augustus Hartman, of No. 131 Pitt Street, was delivered of a female child, which, at 6 A.M. was intrusted (sic) to an aunt of the mother to nurse. The aunt fell asleep while holding the newly-born infant in her arms, and on awaking discovered that it was in a dying condition. On the neck of the child was a large scratch, which bore the appearance of having been inflicted by a pet Spitz dog belonging to the family. The aunt hurriedly summoned a midwife to attend Mrs. Hartman, but when she arrived at the house the babe was dead. Deputy Coroner Cushman made an autopsy of the body, and ascertained that death was due to shock.

It's unclear if Spitz was put down.

But this is undoubtedly the most disturbing of the three stories. Joanne Bashold comes to New York from Ohio at the age of 23. She gets raped, and in the process gets pregnant. She decides to keep the baby, and then this happens:

September 7, 1976
DOG KILLS AN INFANT LEFT IN APARTMENT; MOTHER IS ARRESTED

By CHARLES KAISER

A 4-day-old baby girl, left alone on the floor of an East Harlem apartment, was killed yesterday morning by the family's German Shepherd, which had not been fed for days.

The baby's mother, 24-year-old Joanne Bashold, was arrested and charged with negligent homicide.

I tried to track Ms. Bashold down, but she seems to have either changed her name of disappeared without a trace. I'm sure it came as only small consolation to her at the time, but all the charges were dropped.

Comments

[Deborah Olin]

I knew Joanne Bashold whos dog ate her baby in the 70s
I had been interviewed by the NY times and lawyers for her defense
he formly was living in my building inthe east villagwe then dissapeared soon after we found out she told us she was pregnant , it was prorably the 3rd time she had sex in her life
she moved to florida I think and went to hair dressing school, she prio was working in a hotel upstate, she was adopted too I think
she was afraid of people you could say..we all wanted to help take care of her all the nieghbors who knew her and befriended her and she just ran away next thing shes on the news
Deborah Olin

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this is terrible. and its happened so many times, especially in the UK. dig-sitting should be left with responsible professionals who do not leave vulnerable things like babies around bulldogs.

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Actually pet psychologists should study the behavior pattern of dogs with baby. So that the dogs can be trained differently to take care of the baby.

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