I would have hoped that the SPCA would feel morally compelled to let someone know that vulnerable children were living with at least one dangerous dog. Prevention, prevention, prevention.

What I find really upsetting is that the dogs that maim and kill have been known as dangerous dogs to either the police or SPCA long before a horrible attack happens. What did the SPCA or police think would happen when children, a dangerous border collie and Rottweilers get left alone without adequate supervision and protection?

I could go on for a long time about the Ministry for Children and Families, but that's a whole other website. Let's not blame the mother or the children in this recent tragedy in Maple Ridge. Owning a dangerous dog isn't against the law, neither is tethering, chaining and isolating dogs. Would it have been so difficult to remove the dangerous dog from this home and prevent an attack on children? Now a child is dead and the remaining children certainly must be emotionally devastated from the experience and are not allowed contact with their mother. How does one start to rebuild and heal this family?

Can't anyone in charge ever do the humane thing BEFORE tragedy happens?

Jeri-Lyn Ratzlaff,