Posted on 04/01/2009 10:37:42 AM PDT by Chet 99
A SEVEN-month-old boy has been killed by two pit bull dogs at his grandmother's house.
Texan news website Mysanantonio.com reports Izaiah Gregory Cox was attacked when his grandmother left the room to warm milk bottles. She was also attacked and injured by the dogs.
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said officers had to shoot the dogs so that paramedics could get into the house.
"What can you say about the death of a seven-month-old baby at the hands of pit bulls?" he asked. "It's senseless without words."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
and...CUE THE PIT BULLS-ARE-REALLY-LOVABLE CROWD!
Five...four...three..two...
They were aspiring rapper pitt bulls who were just starting to turn their lives around.
This is a rare occurance! </sarcasm>
I have been told, repeatedly, that attacks like this are rare.
That poor baby.
Never ever leave a baby alone with any dog, unless it can tell you in advance and promise it won’t hurt the baby...As the population grows, so do the vast numbers of stupid people.
Will there be a Memorial and cndlelight vigil for the slain dogs and a protest against the cops who butually and vicously slayed this poor puppys?
Just dang it! pitbulls are the muslims of the pet world.
Don’t you know, it’s not the breed, it’s the training!!!!
:D
Of course that would also mean that it would be perfectly safe for me to keep a bengal tiger loose in my yard...
I have yet to see a freeper defending any dog responsible for an attack.
Yes, something normally reserved for teacup poodles.
Give it time. . . by the way, FR has our share:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2219291/posts?page=8#8
Yeah, it is the owner yada yada yada...
The only time I have had to go into my yard armed with a firearm was when I had to retrieve some toys taken by my nieghbor's two male pit bulls. They could easily jump the fences and seemed to think a particular corner of my yard was their territory.
So I'm out there with a revolver in one hand and a rake in the other...and it wasn't their owner I was afraid of!
Relatives said the grandmother frequently baby-sits her grandson, but said that when the baby is around, the dogs are usually outside, in a small, fenced-in yard. The dogs were kind to the grandmother, relatives said, but were aggressive toward others.This could have been any large protective breed...dobermans, chows, Newfoundlands...any. It is not the breeding, but the raising that predisposes dogs to behave this way.
One relative said the dogs bit her 8-year-old niece in the face once, and added she thought the dogs should have been put down then. A sign on the front gate warns pedestrians on the busy neighborhood street to beware of the dogs.
“Are those dogs dangerous? You better believe it,” said neighbor Larry Salazar, who congregated with several other neighbors after they heard the shots fired. Ramon Sanchez, whose grandmother lives next-door to where the attack occurred, said the two dogs were at least 120 pounds each and were vicious.
I guess for you ignorance is bliss.
Swimming pools are “lovable” too, but you don’t leave a crawler/toddler unattended with access to one.
If people are going to have pit bulls or other large dogs with poweerful jaws — even well-trained, “lovable” ones — in a home with small children, they need to carry a sidearm at all times when the dog is not securely locked in a room or cage that the dog can’t get out of and the child can’t get into.
My husband and I have a toddler and two GSD's. If either dog ever showed the slightest inclination to hurt a kid, it would be put down on the spot. Fortunately our two are very protective, and will warn us if we think we're playing too rough with our little girl (much to her disgust, of course).
All pit bulls should be destroyed. Owners arrested.
Pit bull owner = drunk driver.
Yeah. Property rights and personal liberty are for sissies.
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