Posted on 08/12/2013 5:19:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin
RIVERSIDE (CBSLA.com) — A Riverside woman was in serious condition after two pit bulls attacked her Monday.
The attack was reported around 10:50 a.m. while the victim was walking her dog along a sidewalk in the 4000 block of 6th Street in downtown Riverside, according to Riverside County Department of Animal Services.
The dogs reportedly leaped a fence and attacked her, leaving her with bite marks on the right side of her face and also had a gaping wound on her right arm.
A relative to the pit bull owner rushed from the property to pull the older and bigger dog off the victim, officials said.
It was unclear how the dogs got loose, but the bigger dog may have squeezed underneath the wood fence, according to officials.
Emergency responders assisted her and she was taken by ambulance to an area hospital. Her small dog survived the attack.
Animal Services officers responded and impounded the two dogs – both unaltered males – which were later signed over by the owner for humane euthanasia.
Officials said the adult dog did not have a license as required by state law and was not vaccinated for rabies. The dogs will be sent to a county lab for rabies testing.
“This poor woman was just walking down the street and attacked without provocation,” Animal Services Director Robert Miller said. “Her injuries are very serious and our thoughts and prayers go out to her as she recovers from these wounds.”
Miller said that all dog owners must always be cognizant about having proper walls or fences to keep their dogs within their properties.
In before “It’s the owner, not the breed...”
Another post for you, Chet! Too bad you went nutz.
So many will be like the dying Anakin Skywalker saying “you were right, Chet99. You were right.”
>>In before “It’s the owner, not the breed...”<<
The suppression of similar stories about Golden Retrievers will eventually be pierced...
I have a feeling you beat a lot of people who are thinking the same thing.
If it’s the owner and not the dog, why are they killing the dogs?
Poor Chet. He was right.
Yep, it’s amazing how many bad owners own pit bulls.
My guns are deadly, but they don’t go off on their own.
"My tigers don't bite. I don't know what got into them."
Strange, how many horrible people own these gentle dogs, why blame the breed. /s/
I have a sweet Yorkie and have to remember the bite out of my leg was by a large dog and big dogs are not all sweet and neither are these pit bulls. How much on average does a pit bull weigh and how tall are they? My Yorkie is 5 lbs.
My neighbors half pit bull bit my foot and would not let me move. I was frozen. He kept growling and coming closer. Owner had trouble getting him to respond and let me go. I now keep a gun in my pocket all times when in my yard
(Junkyard dawgs need a BIG fence.)
Bet I know how that went down.
"Vato, you won't believe what I saw.
I saw these pack of dogs and they act real hard... (And what they do?)
They wagged their tails, say you know who we are...
She say 'I don't give a damn' so they began to gnaw ... (Ah huh)
They kept biting her and it went too far,
So animal control went to the trunk of his car (And what he get?),
He got his lasso and they start barking hard,
He started swinging and then he just charged..."
I find the little yappy dogs to be more of a problem than big dogs (pits excepted).
Of course Labs, Goldens and many others are quite sweet. Especially if properly trained to be out in public.
Only takes two pit bulls. Prolly would have taken about 30 feral yutes.
Should we assume that if there’s a hole in your fence, your dog will get try to kill someone walking on the street by ripping them apart? I keep reading these accounts about pit bulls. We lived on a farm and always had dogs over the years. I was never afraid one would get out and go on a killing rampage.
It’s like having a lion or cougar as a pet - better not let him out or some of the neighbors will go missing! Someone posting on another thread commented that pit bull killings in the US exceeded the number of lions killing people in Africa last year. I don’t know if it’s true, but it seems reasonable because people acknowledge those animals as hazardous and unsuitable for living among people.
How likely is it she would have survived if someone wasn’t home to pull the bigger dog off her?
If it's the Pits a a few other breeds, I'd agree.
LOL. We refer to them as "punters". You figure it out.
I was surprised that even my "gentle" Lab took out a couple of yard Ground Hogs (Broken necks from shaking).
That the "replacement" (the Big Black Dog went to live with my son) half Lab, half Chesapeake, half something else did the same a year later was less of a surprise.
(My garden is happier though...)
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