Where the victim is at fault: Animal attacks

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I remember in Harry Potter where Harry treated a large bird-like creature respectfully and got to ride it which was cool, but then Draco Malfoy came in and started messing with it, acting very offensively to it, and of course it acted on its instincts and dealt him a blow.

Would it be pathological victim-blaming were I to say Draco Malfoy was asking for it?

If somebody taunts a dog with a stick, that person deserves to be bitten by the dog.

Here is a compilation of people who jumped over/broke into zoo enclosures against all safety regulations and were injured or killed. Absolutely their fault.

Warning. Just read the stories, don't watch the videos. They are scary and gory and horrible and can't be unseen (my mistake and I only watched one).
http://www.ranker.com/list/13-of-the-best-idiots-climbing-the-wall-at-the-zoo/danielle-dauenhauer?page=2

I’ve seen people on the Internet criticizing someone harshly for kicking a small dog that was biting his foot, trying to get rid of it, on the grounds that he wouldn’t have the balls to kick a pit bull.

In one case the victim's parent was at fault. A woman held her two year old up above the level of the protective barrier of a the African wild dog exhibit at the Pittsburgh Zoo so he could better see the dogs below and he fell in. The dogs, being wild dogs, ripped him apart.

If a child pulls the cats tail and they scratch the kid, it's the kid's fault. It's called self defense on the animal's part. You use that as a lesson to your child about pulling their tails and how they need to be nice to the animal and not hurt them and that tail pulling hurts them. But you need to be careful with small children around animals because they don't know any better and if the dog bites the kid, the dog gets put to sleep which is so unfair. Most dogs will not bite when the kid is being rough with them but they can snap when they reach their breaking point.

It depends on what precipitates that attack and the circumstances behind it, some animals act aggressively without being provoked at all and sometimes someone is responsible for that animal isn't doing their job.

I wonder if it would be victim blaming if I was walking by my neighbor's house and their dog started barking at me behind the gate so I stick my fingers through them to try and pet it and instead it bites me and you say it's my fault for sticking my fingers through the fence at it?

It's really not smart to try to pet a barking dog whom you do not know.