Yesterday’s post about Philadelphia’s ACCT and the dog attack on my daughter generated a lot of views.  Surprisingly more than I anticipated.  While the situation was reckless and irresponsible, they did do the right thing after being contacted, and quite possibly after seeing the post.  Social media has a way of spurring people to action – especially if it’s not good press.

When I woke up this morning there was a comment saying that instead of taking Will to the shelter we should have taken him to our own vet to have him euthanized.  The point being that we caused him undue stress and terror at the end of his life instead of taking care of it ourselves.  A condemnation of how we handled things and an insinuation that we didn’t care for him, because we opted to surrender him.

Now, let’s just clear this up, because it’s been stewing in my head all morning.

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This time last night I was starting to make dinner.  It was a typical holiday Monday.  Relaxing, a little bit of working, hanging out outside….it was great.  After recovering from the stomach flu pretty much completely on Sunday, Monday was…great.  And then at about 6pm last night, the greatness turned into the suckiest day ever.

There were some kids walking by our kitchen window (our house sits on the corner and the sidewalk runs along our kitchen window) and Will, our dog, barked.  One bark.  Sweet Pea said, as she’d been taught, “Will, no!”  At which point, Will lunged across the kitchen, knocked her down, and attacked.

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