Posted on 03/15/2013 4:23:59 PM PDT by BBell
New Orleans, LA - A gruesome pit bull attack on Wednesday in the New Orleans, Louisiana area resulted in the victim losing both arms, an eye, an ear, and a part of her scalp. Three of the adult dogs attacked 54-year-old Linda Henry in her home where she lived with the dog’s owner, her boyfriend. When Westwego police officers responded to the call, all four adult pit bulls attacked or lunged at them, forcing the officers to shoot them. A litter of puppies was also removed from the home.
As of Thursday, the victim was still reported hospitalized in critical condition.
“It’s the worst dog bite I’ve ever seen in 25 years of police work,” said Westwego Police Chief Dwayne Munch.
It was the second bold attack by pit bulls on unsuspecting victims in only four days. An attack on Sunday, which was captured on surveillance video, showed a pit bull running across an intersection in the Bronx in New York City in order to strike and maul a little girl described in different reports as being age four or age six.
Several nearby men rushed in to pull the dog off the tiny child, and she reportedly survived with only minor injuries.
You can watch that video below, but be warned. It’s disturbing — and not least because the reporter was told that the owner of the dog was ticketed but will be allowed to keep the animal.
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Pointers point, retrievers retrieve, fighting dogs fight.
It becomes instinctual and NO amount of training will eliminate it from their mind.
If I ever see one in my neighborhood running loose it’s as good as dead. By any means necessary.
If I see one running loose and I’m in my car I might have to accidentally run over it.
Problem solved.
Pitbulls are ticking time bombs.
FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS AMERICANS KNEW PIT BULLS FOR WHAT THEY DID BEST. BABYSITTING.
http://www.ywgrossman.com/photoblog/?p=676
Hardly.
Like I said, its the owner, not the dog.
Dogs are not naturally born vicious.
You can raise the puppy to be a loving and well-behaved dog.
That some people don’t do that should be a reflection on them and not on the dog.
Liberals believe discipline is equal to abuse or torture. Abuse is letting a person or animal become undisciplined - endangering random or a multitude of individuals.
Pit bulls have been given a bad rap.
Bullshit.
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