Toddler 'fought until last breath' as he was savaged by dangerous dog
dailystar.co.ukdog breeds after a two-year-old was mauled to death by his family’s dog.Talan Peters "fought right up until his last breath” at Townsville Base Hospital in Queensland, Australia, after the animal’s savage attack.He underwent emergency brain surgery, but doctors were unable to stop the internal bleeding, causing catastrophic organ failure.
The Queensland toddler died on Monday, January 31.The precise breed of dog that killed Talan has yet to be revealed, but one Aussie vet has already called for some dangerous dog breeds to be banned in Australia in a bid to reduce the number of fatal dog attacks on children.The vet, speaking anonymously, told Daily Mail Australia that he wanted an immediate ban on selling, breeding, importing or rehoming American Staffordshire terriers.“Most of the time they won't be killers,' he told Daily Mail Australia in September.“But when you're dealing with such a powerful breed that's been bred to fight and kill, when they really want to do this, nobody can do anything to fend them off."Pointing out that at any given moment there were “literally hundreds” of American Staffordshire Terriers being offered for sale on Gumtree across Australia, he added: “They should not be allowed to be bred in this country.”Reacting to the story online, Facebook users questioned the sense fo keeping such powerful animals as pets: “If any dog can bite and kill a two-year old maybe we shouldn't own them as pets and have them in our houses,” said one.However, pointing out that the facts in this case haven’t been fully established someone responded: “Any dog can be dangerous in the right situation, but it doesn't generally become a dangerous dog until the situation happens”.There’s a wide overlap between the Pit Bull,.
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