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Speaker 1: Well, I spent all weekend waiting for more details about

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Speaker 1: the death by dog in the Bay of Plenty, and

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Speaker 1: it's a story that really upsets me, that upset me greatly.

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Speaker 1: We've heard about the victim. Apparently he was a cheeky,

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Speaker 1: cheery four year old kid. His family say he had

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Speaker 1: a little mischief in his smile, a little wild in

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Speaker 1: his heart, and a heart full of cuteness. We heard

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Speaker 1: a statement from them I that something had happened, suggesting

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Speaker 1: this was in Mildy circles. For a while I thought,

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Speaker 1: actually it was an instant on the Mariah, but it

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Speaker 1: was not. We heard another person was injured, and presumably

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Speaker 1: they were trying to save the boy. On social media,

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Speaker 1: I saw claims that the boy may have razed the dogs,

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Speaker 1: But that's not the point. That's victim blaming. Now. The

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Speaker 1: thing that always gets me about these stories is that

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Speaker 1: dogs should not kill people. But four people have died

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Speaker 1: at the teeth of dogs in the past five years.

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Speaker 1: Dogs are man's best friend. Dogs are a useful tool,

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Speaker 1: but dogs never kill humans the way robots are supposed

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Speaker 1: to be programmed to never kill humans. Even the dogs

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Speaker 1: whose jobs are to be security for humans should not

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Speaker 1: kill other humans, even if the humans are bad. The

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Speaker 1: only dogs who kill humans are dogs who are owned

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Speaker 1: or controlled by humans who do not know how to

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Speaker 1: control their dogs. And if they have dogs who are

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Speaker 1: not controllable, they are humans who don't realize the threat

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Speaker 1: those dogs pose. Therefore, they should not be in charge

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Speaker 1: of dogs. And when these things happen, the concerns start

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Speaker 1: raising rules and regulations that the bad owners ignore, and

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Speaker 1: the only thing they do is irritate and criminalize the

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Speaker 1: good owners. Any dogs that kill that can be traced

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Speaker 1: to an owner, to me says that that owner must

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Speaker 1: face a custodial sentence. They're just as guilty as the

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Speaker 1: dog because your weapon just killed an innocent child. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you live with yourself, and don't

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Speaker 1: you dare defend the dog? For more from earlier edition

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