Posted on 05/25/2018 8:52:19 AM PDT by Norski
We had one near our house that attacked a woman jogger going down the street. It jumped over a fence and mauled her pretty badly....................
This is an excerpt and a comment post from the article in the Altoona Mirror:
Child, 6, killed in dog attack
Local News
May 25, 2018
From Mirror staff reports
A 6-year-old boy is dead after a dog attack in Lakemont.
Rick Vaughan, a friend of the boy’s family who lives a few blocks away, said the boy died after the family dog attacked him just before 6 p.m. Thursday at a home on Gesser Avenue.
Vaughan spoke on behalf of the family and said the boy’s father was cutting grass, heard the mother screaming and rushed to find “the dog on the boy.”
Vaughan said the father “did what he had to” to get the dog off the child.
“It was already too late,” Vaughan said. Vaughan said he has known the boy’s father since they were young kids.
“His mother is taking it very, very hard,” the 32-year-old Vaughan said. “He passed away in her arms.”
The dog that mauled the boy is dead, and the family asked police to take a second dog.
Denise Duirway · University of British Columbia
Thank you WTAJ-TV for not covering up for the profiteering pit lobby and stating the family dog was a pit bull. If more reporters were honest then fewer families would pay this terrible price of losing a child in such a horrendous way. Your honesty may have brought awareness to hundreds of families who are now thinking twice about fully trusting their powerful pet even at only 35 pounds / 16 kg.
Parents if you don’t have the heart to take your dog to a Veterinarian for peaceful euthanasia, please muzzle it around your children and invest in a secure, child proof doghouse kennel. Please do NOT foist it onto another family via a shelter. Most shelters are run by clueless Volunteers who do not know anything about Nature vs. Nurture; or Function follows form studies. Is that too much to ask to protect your precious children and your neighbor’s precious children and pets?
Last week, I went to the curb to get the trash container and roll it back to the house when the neighbor started running towards me yelling, with an empty leash in his hand.
There he was, the pit bull, wagging his whole body and happy to see me. I had never seen that dog before.
He ran directly to me and I just shut my eyes and waited. Luckily, he obeyed his owner and just sniffed my hand. I wasn’t really scared - I just ended up feeling silly (and lucky).
It amazes me how stupid and careless people are with their children around animals. Pit Bulls are a special case, but no smaller child should be left unsupervised with any dog, no matter how small, sweet gentle etc. Larger dogs can kill in an instance if they are triggered.
The horse world is even worse. Little kids “riding” 1000 pound animals that they have no chance of controlling if something happens.
In the local newspaper the shelter has ads stating “terriers for adoption”. I’m thinking maybe a cute little rat terrier or a jack Russell. However, when you look at the selection they’re pit bulls!
Pit bulls and similar breeds need to be banned and wherever outside or near people, muzzled. One reason I conceal carry is to protect family from these dogs.
When we moved in, while carrying stuff in through back yard, neighbor's pit bull mix came into our yard, growling at me. I was not armed or it would be dead. I made that clear to the neighbors. They fixed the fence. Turns out to be an old dog. But they've been very careful about the dog since. Needless to say, they have not been a welcoming neighbor. Oh well.
Oh well... At least the "family pit bull" killed their own kid and not someone else's kid.
“Pitbulls are terriers. Terriers are extremely possessive, territorial and dominant. These characteristics do not go well with young children in the house. “
True.
A Pitbull-type dog is a Terrier. AKA Pitbull Terrier, Staffordshire Terrier, Yankee Terrier (not widely used), etc. If you want the history of the breed-type, the purpose for which it was and is created and bred, and its history, it is available.
As terrible as this is to admit, it is true.
I doubt that it is of any comfort to the parents.
The parents are entirely 100 percent to blame for what happened to their child.
I’ll keep mine thank you.
I think you earned your place as a “keyword”.
Yes, so it is just as well that it happened to their own child and not someone else’s. This is very sad, and very bad. But so is death. Death is death. It is inevitable. But this is an awful way to go. And this particular situation, yes, I agree, was preventable by the parents.
The numbers are that about 1/3 of the pit bull attacks are towards the owner or friend, family, or visitor of the owner.
http://www.animals24-7.org/2015/12/23/pit-bull-statistics/
There are a lot of statistics here.
” . . .the neighbor started running towards me yelling, with an empty leash in his hand. “ . . .
It sounds like the owner knew something you did not about his dog.
I don’t think that you had reason to feel silly. Quite the opposite.
You may want to make preparations to meet this dog again. When it is not so happy. Without its owner. The dog has already demonstrated that it either “got out” or “got loose”.
How does a dog cause death by “blunt force trauma”?
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Likely by whipping them around like a rag doll while the head impacts hard objects.
the right moment..the right situation....a dog can just do a quick little bite and can really hurt someone, especially small children...
I cringe when I see people letting their huge dogs frolic with babies....
BE CAREFUL ALWAYS WITH YOUR CHILDREN...ANTICIPATE WHAT COULD HAPPEN...
Pitbulls are terriers. Terriers are extremely possessive, territorial and dominant. These characteristics do not go well with young children in the house.
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I haave also observed their high strung temperament makes them extremely excitable. I watched a young child once skipping, running, shouting, and having a great time playing in the presence of a male pitfall and the pit had all he could do to restrain himself. He was literally shaking with nervous energy. It scared the hell out of me because he appeared to be like a ticking time bomb about to explode.
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