Posted on 07/09/2004 2:10:42 PM PDT by Shermy
Eighty-eight year old Mabel Wong was still in critical condition in John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek on Monday. She's been there since a week ago last Saturday, battling for her life, after a horrible mauling by a neighbor's pit bull near her Concord home.
In the aftermath, people wondered how it could happen. What did this little elderly lady do to trigger such an attack? The answer is simple and blunt. Nothing.
"This lady had interacted with this dog hundreds of times,'' said Lt. Abe Gamez of Contra Costa Animal Services. "She was just trying to get from one place to another.''
Whenever there is an account of a mauling by a pit bull, there is a howl of protest from those who love the breed. There are no bad dogs, just bad owners, they say. Or they ask how the media reporting the incident knew the dog was a pit bull. Pit bulls, they insist, are no more inherently dangerous than any other breed of dog.
That's not true.
"What I usually say is that it is not uncommon to spend thousands of dollars breeding a good hunting dog,'' says Gamez. "With a good hunting dog, that is not something you teach -- he's got it in his genes. The pit bull is bred for fighting.''
"You can't make a German shepherd stop herding,'' says Merritt Clifton, editor of the Washington-based Animal People magazine. "You can't make a Chihuahua stop barking.''
It is at this point that everyone starts yelling at each other and pointing fingers. My pit bull, someone says, plays with my children every day. He's the cutest, most affectionate pet we've ever had. Pits are no more aggressive or dangerous than beagles.
That's not true.
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Dog ping?
It'll also cost you on your homeowners insurance to own a dangerous breed of dog.
Another needless mauling by a kind, gentle pit.
I have a 13" Beagle who weighs about 20 pounds. My husband got in the way one day (dog fight). This little Beagle lacerated his upper lip (through and through laceration). Little dogs can do a lot of damage.
I don't like the tone of this article...
It's punishing people and responsible dog owners for stuff their dog hasn't done yet.
Little geriatric dogs too...
When it comes to injuring innocent people, I prefer my Pit Africanized Bee colony.
Like Howie Carr says "Most Pit Bull owners are drug dealers".
I'm guessin' he's still alive, though.
The apartment complex where we lived for a few months didn't accept German Shepherds, so we called Heidi a "Husky mix," conveniently omitting the GSD element of her genetics.
I call it Bully by Proxy. The "people" across the street finally moved after two years of dodging the pitbull to get mail or take out the garbage for collection.
They not only thought it was funny when the miserable dog charged us, but refused to keep it under control.
I should have called animal control at the time. I will if anything like this happens again.
There are some breeds of dog that should not be tolerated in a close-quarters residential environment. Pit bulls and Presa Canarias are high on that list.
Xena's Guy made the mistake - once - of holding Salty's pig ear too close to his own face, and encouraging Salty to come get it. Salty got the ear and part of XG's chin, and five stitches later, Homie don't play that.
I'm guessin' he's still alive, though.
Your husband, that is.
I know of at least one case where the dog was brought under control by the annoyed neighbor.
Permanently.
A mail carrier is in the hospital in Houston following a pitbull attack. It happened yesterday or day before. I don't know if the man condition is serious or critical.
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