[enasseneiff]

Heart wrenching article ... thanks for sharing.

I do wonder what the "lesson" is though. It needs to state what the dog's owner (John) was doing wrong, letting Max have the complete run of things while he was distracted in the garden.

Anyone, be it his friend (in the story), or a Girl Scout trying to sell cookies, or another dog that wandered into the yard, etc . etc. was open to attack.

Or Max could have simply decided to take a little trot around the neighborhood and attack or be attacked himself.

How does this address BEHAVIORS is the point. Max's owner was lazy. The owner was the problem, not a "misunderstanding of dog behavior" or whatnot.