Pet sausage canine kills new child child in her cot whereas mother and father had been asleep | EUROtoday

A pet dachshund has attacked and killed a new child child whereas the household was sleeping, Russian media experiences.

The sausage canine bit the child lady a number of occasions whereas she was sleeping in her cot, based on early inquiries from the Investigative Committee. The child’s mom later discovered her new child lifeless and lined in chunk marks of their dwelling in Seversk, based on Ria.ru.

“During the night of March 10 this year, in an apartment on Kommunistichesky Avenue, a pet dachshund bit a baby girl born in 2025 while she was sleeping in her crib. Her mother later found the child’s lifeless body with multiple bite wounds,” the Investigative Committee stated.

The canine has since been euthanised, the Investigative Committee advised RIA Novosti, and so they have launched a legal investigation.

Police are investigating the incident as inflicting loss of life by negligence, which carries a most penalty of two years’ imprisonment.

Dachshunds, a long-bodied, short-legged canine, had been initially bred as looking canines, used to flush animals like badgers and rabbits out of burrows.

While fashionable pets, they are often aggressive to folks they have no idea and are recognized to bark.

The British Veterinary Association has beforehand warned the breed – which is available in miniature and commonplace dimension, in addition to clean, lengthy or wired-haired varieties – can include important and expensive well being issues.

Roughly a fifth of sausage canines develop intervertebral disc illness, which might depart the canine unable to stroll and compromise its high quality of life.

Despite the heath issues, they’re a well-liked canine breed within the UK. According to a Kennel Club rating of pure-bred canines by the variety of registrations, they’re the fourth hottest pure-bred pet amongst Britons.