Posted on 10/15/2014 2:59:14 PM PDT by artichokegrower
A Central California man has died after he and his 77-year-old mother were mauled by a pack of pit bulls owned by his neighbors, sheriff's officials said Wednesday.
Juan Fernandez, 59, died of multiple traumatic injuries suffered in Tuesday's attack at his home in the city of Modesto, Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson said. His mother, Maria, remained hospitalized in critical condition.
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Your dogs got out of your yard, went onto neighbor's property, killed one neighbor and put the other in the hospital. Kinda sounds negligent to me.
Lovely little dogs those pitbulls. Real charmers.
That was shitty of him to die. It wasn’t the dogs fault.
As late as the 1940s, pack dogs were considered a deadly menace in the US, and ordinary people and the police were encouraged to shoot them. Only with the development of modern animal control was there a permanent system of capturing and euthanizing them.
But the number of stray and feral animals will always overwhelm such systems. So the public needs to be aware that packs can show up about anywhere and be a menace, and the proper response is to be prepared to shoot them.
I’m waiting for some animal rights Freeper to respond that it’s not the breed and the mangled man must have done something wrong.
It’ll get to the point you’ll need to walk around with a sidearm 24/7.
Pack dogs. Think about it.
Just like the scene in “To Kill a Mockingbird” where Atticus shoots the feral dog.
Trying to remember the last time I read about a pack of: Irish setters, poodles, golden retrievers or ____ attacking and killing anyone.
I don’t believe it is always just the breed, I believe it is the owner. These dogs are trained to behave this way. Some pit bulls are very sweet.
We arrived at that point long ago.
“These dogs are trained to behave this way.”
This is a rash and unwarranted allegation.
Do there exist publicized reports of dog owners having taken the trouble to “train” their dogs to viciously and violently attack people? Undoubtedly the dogs trained to behave in this manner would represent several breeds, but so far as I am able to remember I have not read of this claim being asserted in defense of dogs other than pit bulldogs.
And, BTW, what is the basis of that title for this dog breed? Was American Staffordshire Terrier, or whatever, concocted for the purpose of lending them a more genteel sheen?
Imagine the packs of dogs after Ebola spreads.
Dreadful. RIP.
That's what past neighbors of ours said even after they attacked my wife and her dog putting her in the hospital and her dog with over 100 stitches.
Chet 99 memorial ping.
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