WITH reference to the front page article in the Midweek GUARDIAN regarding the incident in which Farrah Muckley was attacked by a rottweiler.

The dog's owners cannot be accused of irresponsibility, since the dog was enclosed within a six foot pen in the garden, so it begs the question as to why the little girl climbed into the pen in the first place?

I can appreciate the parents' distress over the little girl, but I cannot accept that the dog should be destroyed when in fact the little girl had trespassed into its space in the first place.

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