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Post by sibemom on Sept 6, 2004 16:00:41 GMT -5
Well yesterday there was an unsolicited dog attack by those very same Pit Bulls that attacked Blade on several occasions. The two of them were LOOSE in their yard and saw a dog across the street, TIED UP IN IT"S OWN YARD MIND YOU and they hit him hard. They almost severed his back leg, ripped a big chunck out of his neck, destroyed one of his eyes, and gave him a belly gash that was HUGE. The owner of the dog being attacked called the Cops and they came ASAP, the owner of the PIT'S could not get his dogs off. When they noticed the police officer standing there ready to take action they started for him, and he did the only thing he could and shot them. The one dog died instantly but the other was wounded and I guess by law they had to take him to the vet, MY VET . I assume he will be PTS. This happened only few blocks from my house. I am not going to say that I am sorry these dogs met their maker, if there was suffering involved then of course I feel bad. The poor dog that was attacked was a LARGE GSD Mix of some sort I think Lab and he has to weigh close to 100#'s. I don't think he is going to make it. I know the officer well he is one of my students and when I talked to him, he said it was the worst thing he had ever had to do. He said the owner of the dog that was attacked told him the dogs just circled his dog and in a split second before he could react they were on him. From the first day I met those dogs I did not like them, and I knew someday something like this would happen. Thank God no children were outside because I am sure they would have been the next target.
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Post by Nicole on Sept 6, 2004 19:20:54 GMT -5
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Post by Laura on Sept 6, 2004 21:27:20 GMT -5
My heart goes out to those poor people whose dog was attacked , and I hope they take that stupid a$$ for as much as humanly possible. Shame on him, and shame on the ACO for not preventing this from happening .
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Post by Richard on Sept 6, 2004 21:54:43 GMT -5
Wow, that is so sad...once again an idiot owner, with dogs beyond his or her skills, let's them get loose to reak havoc in the neighborhood...somehow they got out of thier backyard and decided it was time to go and kick the CRAP out of the dog across the street....there is no excuse for why this had to happen....just start a list of who to blame....you can put the Pit's at the top or the bottom of the list..don't matter, cuz ultimately, everyone loses in this one....
I'm not losing any sleep either knowing there is two less Pits on the face of this earth to carry out anymore attacks like what these two did to that poor dog...the Copper shoulda arrested the idiot owner on the spot as well....
-Richard
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Post by ripley on Sept 6, 2004 22:40:40 GMT -5
That is just so sad, I feel so awful for the dog that was attacked and for that dog's owners.. I really hope he can pull through. IMO, the owner of the pits is first to blame, but the dogs come a close second. Personally I don't think ANYONE can safely and responsibly own dogs that attack so viciously. Yes, the dude who owned them was a MORON and deserves to have his butt kicked all the way around the world, and should NEVER own dogs again. But lets face it, almost EVERYONE'S dog gets out of their yard at some point in time. (At least mine have, and all my friends and neighbor's dogs have.) Personally, I don't feel bad that those aggressive dogs were shot. I'm not going to toss and turn at night because they died. (Although I might over that poor sheppy mix if he doesn't make it. ) That's so awful, and infuriating... If people were responsible WAY in the beginning (I'm talking about BREEDERS selling DANGEROUSLY fight-inclined dogs to irresponsible people) things like this wouldn't happen.
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Post by masha on Sept 7, 2004 5:04:41 GMT -5
That really gives me a flash back -
Our neighbours accross the street have a dog that must be mostly pit - she's larger than most pit bulls, thats why I think she cant be pure.
She seems a sweet girl, but when she was young a man attacked her, unprovoked, and she lost one of her eyes. So she is not a pretty sight, you can imagine.
Now every now and then we come out of our gate with the dogs just when the neighbours open their automatic car gate. And then, out comes that dog. No preliminary posturing or growling, she just races straight out and grabs our dogs as hard and deep as she can, and tries to kill them. She's bitten Basjan severely poor soul, and put a deep dent in his self image as the DANGEROUS WOLF DOG (he is actually just a softy)
The last time was when my Anastasia was still a pup, about 3 months. She grabbed Ana by the throat and shook her like a rat. I was just screaming "O my G0d, O my G0d" and couldnt do anything to stop this dog. It only stopped when the owner came out and kicked her away.
They have now fixed it so she cant get out accidentaly - at least it hasnt happened since then. But I hope so hard that it doesnt because I dont want to have to make them put her to sleep. I cant be angry at the dog though, its the owners. I dont think anyone should breed or own a dog like that, but I just feel sorry for that individual dog. And luckily Ana got over it fine - she loves other dogs and is not scared of them. She was just REALY surprised!
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Post by sibemom on Sept 7, 2004 7:03:11 GMT -5
What use to annoy me about this Pit owner is that he use to tell people that these were BOXER's NO THEY ARE NOT or should I say were, BOXER's. We had run in's with them 3 different times, the last being when he lived only a block away from us, and they got loose. I was out with Blade taking him potty, and it was dark. He started acting funny and all of a sudden here the two of them came over my retaining wall. He pulled away from me scared the crap out of the smaller one and grabbed the other one by the throat and flipped him to the ground and held him there. I was screaming his name trying to get him off and finally he let go and came and sat in front of me growling, and the dog took off and never came back. These two dogs were the product of parents who were PTS I think last year for killing a man's Golden Ret. They dug under the fence and cornered this poor sweet dog and did such damage the man had to put it to sleep. The owner of the parents was fined BIG TIME, so I am sure that this guy will get charged with something. The thing is though that these dogs should have been taken care of a long time ago. I reported all 3 incedents with them, and I know others have complained "You have some splaining to do LUCY (AC)" as to why they were left to rake havoc on poor unsuspeting dogs. I am sure my vet is not all to happy, with them. He of course is a man of compasion but he dislikes this breed more than any other, because of the incecent fight to kill drive that they have.
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Post by Willow on Sept 7, 2004 7:24:58 GMT -5
But lets face it, almost EVERYONE'S dog gets out of their yard at some point in time. (At least mine have, and all my friends and neighbor's dogs have.) Bluntly put, you are missing the point. Yes, almost every dog gets loose at one time or another, but does your dog or mine go and kill another dog when they do? Not likely, and I will repeat again, the problem with Pits is that they want to kill other dogs. That is what they were bred to do, and they do it well! If you own a Pit, there should never be an oops, my dog got loose incident. Period. Ann, this is awful and I'm glad they won't live to do it again, although I feel sad for the dogs too. In the end though, it doesn't matter who is to blame. These dogs can not live to do it again.
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Post by sibemom on Sept 7, 2004 7:36:02 GMT -5
I know I feel bad when any animal has to be killed, probably why I don't hunt anymore but this was just let go for too long. These dogs were freindly to people, but the problem is when they are in kill mode, they do not distinguish between human or animal, and if you get in the middle, you are going down too. If my dogs would ever get loose NO WAY IN HELL would they go looking to kill another dog. Even with this thing that happened with Tyson the GSD, no one is sure that this was just not one of those incidents where play got out of hand. With these Pit's there was no question because the owner of the dog that got attacked said they stalked him and hit. The really bad thing though is that this idiot will probably get another pit bull and that does make it bad for the responsiable owner who does watch and manage these issues when owning this breed. There are a few out there, in fact one that I know pretty well and even though his dog has never shown any aggresion to another dog he still put's a muzzle on it when they go for walks. That in my opinion taking the ownership serious. When people ask him why his dog is muzzled he just tells them that, no he is not aggresive and he wants to keep it that way. He also has a secure kennel. He loves his dog and has a great deal of consideration for his neighbors, because he knows what could happen if he did not manage the dog.
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Post by sibemom on Sept 7, 2004 7:55:00 GMT -5
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Post by Richard on Sept 7, 2004 8:08:08 GMT -5
If ACO's where armed, I'd have them just go shoot the owner....he is clueless!
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Post by ripley on Sept 7, 2004 9:55:37 GMT -5
I agree, and I see what you mean about never letting there be an 'oops' moment in containing them. And the poor puppies.
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Post by sibemom on Sept 9, 2004 5:13:09 GMT -5
I wrote a letter to the editor of the paper after reading the article about the attack, and I am sure I will get creamed for it, because I stuck up for the Cop's in the way they handled the situation. We will have all the bleeding hearts comming out of the wood work before this is over, and missing the whole point. I did find out the female was not killed, she was hit with the tazzer, and stunned and is at the vet here in town. I don't know about the pups, but either way these dogs needed to be dealt with and the only bad judgement on the part of our AC officer is he let this go TOOO LONG. I also found out that the dog attacked was an Aussie, not the GSD mix that it was first reported as. The Cops tried to stun both dogs but the male was not having it and that is when the officer had to use extreme deadly force. What a mess, and they could have prevented this if they would have done something about it sooner The owner is being charged with multiple counts and will be in court next week.
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Post by Willow on Sept 9, 2004 5:45:08 GMT -5
Good for you Ann!
This just infuriates me so much. It's one thing if a Pit/Pit get into a fight, because they are evenly matched, but when it is another breed that doesn't have a chance in hell against a Pit, I am so angry I am almost speechless!
We need stiffer laws and they need to be enforced.
Just like with criminals. There are enough laws on the books, they just aren't usually enforced like they should be.
Rehab for hardened criminals and killer Pits? Don't make me laugh!
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Post by Richard on Sept 9, 2004 18:25:12 GMT -5
Sorry to continue to poop on the Pit but there was an article in our local paper yesterday about a Pit who attacked an Australian cattle dog and almost killed it.....
The ACD and it's owner were out front a store and just at the curb, was a Pit in a car...the window was opened a bit for some fresh air. Witnesses reported the Pit was going bonkers in the car over seeing the dog just sitting there on the sidewalk and literally forced his way through the car window gap.
He went right at the ACD and began to attack it at the chest and shoulder area...the owner of the ACD lifted his dog up to clear his throat from the Pit and then tried to fight the dog off but it was no use. He had it in a headlock and was punching repeatidly at his head to no avail - he was unable to unlock his jaw. A teenage bystander even rode his bike over the dogs head several times to break it loose from the grip it held on the ACD which it finally did.
The teenage boy who eventually showed up said he was looking after the dog didn't provide who owned it but was apologetic over the attack to the family members of the ACD. But a female passenger of the vehicle the pit was in only said, "it's in his nature, he's a fighting dog" without any concern or care as to what had happened.
The dog needed 10 stitches to close the wound, has to be on several types of medication for a while and is in a lot of pain....add in a vet bill of almost $900 (Cdn) and that was the result of this attack..City of Burlington Animal control said they'd still yet to hear from the owner of the Pit a couple of days after the attack.
No wonder the Province of Ontario Government is looking at a Province-wide ban of Pits here.
-Richard
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