Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/14/this-irish-setter-dog-is-a-goo.html
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Apparently no Irish Setters killed anyone in the US in the period 2005-2017. Lest that seem like a “well, duh” statistic, in that same period there are reports of fatal attacks on humans by Corgis, Dachsunds, Jack Russells, and Chihuahuas. (Data here.)
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Killed by a Chihuahua… what a way to go.
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Some of them are real deviants
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They pack up and go at the Achilles tendon .
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I’m imagining it wasn’t a single Chihuahua, but a swarm of them attacking like a school of piranhas.
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I worked for somebody that had 5 jack russells. One time when visiting their home the dogs were outside and they warned “careful, they’ll pack up on you”…
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not a red setter though 
I was going to ask the BB hivemind about that.
Is ‘Irish Setter’ the USian name for what we know as a ‘Red Setter’ in the UK, or is that name applied in the UK too? What’s it called (in English) in Ireland?
From my own experience, I wouldn’t trust a bouncy, bordering on ****ing insane (in a friendly way), red setter with a baby.
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“Irish” is used for both here, though I think some people who raise and train field lines for serious work like to use “Red Setter” to distinguish their dogs from the goofier show-bred dogs.
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With those flyweight breeds the cause of death must be a nasty infection, likely in people with compromised immune system. Or in case of dachshunds, a gunshot wound.
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Thanks. A quick glance at Wikipedia did suggest that the working and show varieties are diverging (even physically), but it was unclear about the name(s).
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Hopefully brexit’s monkeying with the Good Friday Accords doesn’t change this.
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Beautiful dogs but almost as dim as a Dalmatian.
The way the photo was cropped made it look like the baby was wearing a “cone of shame”
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I love dogs but i would never ever leave a baby unattended with any dog. Not saying that’s what this owner has done but it’s a good rule to live by.
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