Posted on 11/22/2008 4:45:33 PM PST by familyop
Two neighbors, three dogs, and one gun. It all made for a very terrifying and troublesome scene today on the Northshore.
On Maris Stella Street in Slidell, a pair of makeshift tombstones now rest where a pair pit bulls used to play.
"I treat my dogs like family," said owner Brian McGrath. "I can't replace those dogs now."
McGrath says his dogs were needlessly killed.
"It just doesn't add up," he said. "The story doesn't make sense."
Slidell police officers say the dogs broke through two fences to get into a neighbor's backyard, where they attacked another dog and allegedly threatened its owner, who asked us not to use his name.
"He went out to try and break it up," said Lt. Ray Dupuy of the Slidell Police Department.
Dupuy says the man, after arriving home from work Tuesday afternoon, noticed the pair of pit bulls in his backyard and tried to stop them from attacking his dog.
"Then, the two dogs started charging at him so he ran back in his house, got a handgun, went back out to try and break it up, again, and the dogs attacked them again. At that point, he fired a few shots and struck both of the pit bulls."
One died immediately, the other ran back through the fence and died soon after. The blood stained concrete shows the path. Lt. Dupuy says the shooting was justified.
"The dogs were attacking him, and he defended himself and his own dog," said Dupuy.
The owner of the pit pulls still believes otherwise.
"My dogs wouldn't do that," said McGrath. "I got a little boy that's almost two-years-old. If my dogs were aggressive, I wouldn't have had them." They're not aggressive to animals, they are not aggressive towards people. Something provoked them."
The man who shot the pit bulls said he feels sorry about the situation, but says he had no other choice. As of early Tuesday evening, his dog was still at an animal clinic in moderate condition. The man's neighbor, Brian McGrath, was charged with a misdemeanor, but says he plans on fighting those charges during his February court date.
The owner of the pit bulls needs a punch in the mouth. My dogs wouldn’t do that. What, we have to have videotape now? Stupid moron, the fence damage will show your dogs were the ones that did it, the blood trail shows they were in the other guys’ yard.
Needs a few smack to the head to bop him back into reality.
Just so no one here thinks I’m picking on poor little sweet little defenseless pit bulls: I feel the same way about Rotties and Chows. Unless they are being raised, trained and handled by law or military officers, BAN OR KILL THEM. BAN OR KILL THEM ALL.
I would shoot a pit bull if it just came in my yard.....and rotties too.
“Unless they are being raised, trained and handled by law or military officers, BAN OR KILL THEM. BAN OR KILL THEM ALL.”
Maybe the same thing could be said about guns. The neighbor did the right thing but the talk of banning or killing them makes me think I’ve accidentally logged on to DU or the daily kos.
TANKS a bunch for the info and the ping,,,
Some of us ain’t gunna be eaten...:0/
I’m a Deputy Sheriff and I had a similar story to this a couple of years ago. I ended up killing a big red Pit who was in a mid air lunge to attack me. Thankfully the 45 cal 230 gr Gold Dot did it’s job.
I’m a dog person myself, a German Shepherd Dog to be precise, but I have no doubt in my mind that the traits and personality of a Pit Bull Terrier have no place in my neighborhood.
You’re very welcome. Don’t forget to read the suggestion about using bounties behind the following link.
Woman Stabs Pit Bull In Home Invasion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2136738/posts
It wouldn’t take many donations at all to get rid of several neighborhood pit bulls that way.
“DU and Kos would advocate the killing of innocent children. I’m only advocating the killing of unsupervised, hostile dogs/animals.”
No, you wrote to ban/kill them ALL! There was nothing about supervision in that post.
“Thankfully the 45 cal 230 gr Gold Dot did it’s job.”
Yes ,thankfully it did and nice shooting.I would do the same without hesitation.But just because, in your mind, the traits and personality of a Pit have no place in your neighborhood doesn’t mean a person can’t own one.
I see you have a soft spot for these dogs too. I have no doubt that if you have one it is the apple of your eye, but I go to so many calls where the loving Pit Bull Terrier every owner proclaims is harmless has blood dripping off of it’s chin and splattered up to it’s knees from another animal usually.
I have extensive video on my dash cam of one Pit who had a little Lab in it’s mouth doing the death shake with it. It attacked my partner as he got out of his car and we had to put it down too.
I realize the human factor of danger is usually related to an attack on another animal as the thread we are on, but not always.
The attack when I was FORCED to put one down was because I was on his front porch trying and locate his master because he was running the neighborhood and attempting to bite several neighbors and kill their dogs.
I believe the basis of their violence is territorial dominance and is apparently a breed trait. A trait such as this in not usually overcome with Love or “training”.
I don’t understand the point of owning one of those dogs. Whats wrong with a beagle? Or a lab? Why get something that can rip your face off if it has a bad day. Or kill a neighborhoods child. Or kill dogs.
“Shall we take your GSD away too?”
If I owned a dog of any breed that was a danger to the public you wouldn’t have to take it away from me, I’d dispose of it myself. The problem is others in this society that don’t have the sense or the courage to address or acknowledge their own problems themselves. And this doesn’t pertain just to dogs.......
“I believe the basis of their violence is territorial dominance and is apparently a breed trait. A trait such as this in not usually overcome with Love or “training”.”
It isn’t just their aggressiveness. It is their jaw power. Combine the two and you have a potentially deadly combination.
You have to keep them separated.I had a pit with a rat terrier and a chihuahua they had the usual dog dominance thing and the rat terrier was the dominant dog and he was missing an eye and going blind in the other.I would walk the pit and on the occasion when another dog would bark and act the fool my pit would be calm and usually ignore it.
Actually, it’s % that’s most important. German Shepherds are probably the most popular breed in the entire world, for decades, and so between the aggression-breeding (Germans deny it, but they do emphasize it) and the fact they are everywhere, not to mention just plain large, it’s not shocking they are high on lists of bites and injuries.
Dobes and even pit bulls (various breeds, not just 1 breed) are not quite as popular.
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