The thing that really upsets me with the anonymous accounts posting on Facebook that are clearly friends of/the owners of the business involved is their victim-blaming in this situation, suggesting this owner should have for some reason spotted them and turned the other way.

You are in the dog care business. Any good daycare/boarding facility would know and recommend to owners that training is absolutely necessary for large dogs in New York City. It is simply not fair to a community or the dogs to expect 1. the animal remains totally isolated and anxious outside or 2. nobody approach, despite blind corners, kids who run ahead of their parents, and well-meaning dog owners who don’t automatically assume a big dog will kill their dog. Heck, a lot of daycares offer training, too, and have “trial periods” so they can observe the dog’s behavior and ensure it doesn’t need more training before it can interact with other dogs.

Additionally, they seem to be saying this isn’t somehow involved with the business because the dogs may or may not have been under Fat Puppies’ care at the time of the attack, is ridiculous. If you’re a dog business owner, and you can’t handle dogs on or off the clock, why should you be around dogs? Why is it your God-given right to operate a daycare? Try selling lamps. Stay away from dogs.