No that's a poor analogy. The dog didn't appear all that well, excessive farting with too much methane :) and owners PRC didn't have enough funds for proper vet treatment nor did they know how to treat it so NZO continued to supply food as required hoping the dog's health would improve for the benifet of all the flea eggs thereon, (shareholders) that one day hoped they'd be able to suck a decent amount of blood from it.
NZO never having had such a dog before were unsure whether to put it down or not but as there were so many worker fleas already extracting pounds of flesh and rich veins of blood they decided for the good of all that they'd try and encourage the dog's health along and hope the farting could be managed. Meanwhile the Dog's operational manager, (Peter Whittal), well aware of the excessive farting pushed the dog far too hard and for his excessive demands he was rewarded as head flea in charge of bloodsucking. The dog hated that and exploded in contempt.
NZO felt very sorry for the affected worker flea's families and effectively expended $20.5M making a fulsome effort to effect reparation.
For reasons best known to themselves some flea eggs have now hatched and believe NZO are morally obliged to make further reparations, go figure.
Meanwhile back in the real world other pet owners realise there's risks in all sorts of things and get on with life.
Shall we ban planes because Boeing made on that crashed at Erebus, shall we ban cars because circa 400 New Zealanders are killed each year...these manufacturers are complicit right....of course not.
Maybe in the greenies had allowed the dog a decent sized play pen, (opencast mining) we would have had a happy healthy dog with lots of contented flea's...part of this sheets home to the Greenies excessive influence, in my opinion. But those snails that were saved from not having open cast mining are far more important than risking human life right ?
Minimoke - Good post, I agree with much of what you've said. If it was up too me I'd ban dangerous dogs completely and ensure ones with some elements of danger to them had decent sized pens, (open cast mines can be re-planted and restored).