Posted on 04/02/2009 5:23:45 PM PDT by Chet 99
WASHINGTON - A Northeast Washington woman is talking about her encounter with the pit bull that attacked her in an alley as she walked her 3-year-old daughter to day care.
Patrice Langley was bitten on her arm and stomach. She says she still worries about what her daughter saw.
"She seen me get attacked by a dog that was just about to attack her,' Langley said.
Langley got out of the hospital late Tuesday night. On Wednesday, she walked back to the alley where she and her 3-year-old daughter Emoni came to face to face with a pit bull on their way to day care Tuesday morning.
"I'm scared. I don't want to walk this way anymore," Langley said.
Residents say a family in an apartment on Webster street NE had been evicted the week before and someone tried to return one of family's pit bulls. But because no one was at home, that person allegedly tied the dog to a rope in the alley and left.
"That person needs to consider, very seriously consider turning themselves in," ANC Commissioner Gigi Ransom said.
Police say how the dog got there and how it got loose is still under investigation. But when Langley and her daughter took their daily short cut, she says the dog snapped and broke free of its rope.
"I jumped in front of my daughter to protect her," Langley said.
She says the dog latched onto her arm. Langley, who's already afraid of dogs, says she found the courage to fight back and began punching the dog
"Something just clicked," she said. "You have to do everything to get this dog off of you."
Unable to run back home because the dog was loose, Langley says she grabbed her daughter and ran toward a neighbor who had heard her screaming.
"I am yelling to her, 'Please just come and get my daughter," she recalled.
Just as her daughter got to safety, Langley says the pit bull came back of nowhere and attacked her again, this time latching onto her stomach. Langley was able to break free.
Langley says she's thankful she and her daughter are safe.
"I was thankful that I got hurt and my daughter was fine," she said.
Animal Control officers later found the dog and left a notice for the dog's owner on the front door. As of 5 p.m., no one had come forward to claim the dog, ABC 7/NewsChannel 8's Jennifer Donelan reported.
I have been told, repeatedly, that attacks like this are rare.
Pit Bulls have killed two infants within the last week here in San Antonio. The day before yesterday two Pit Bulls killed a seven month old baby as the grandmother went to the kitchen to get a bottle. This is happening all too frequently. And please, no lectures about it’s the owner’s fault. I’m sick of it. Establishing whose fault it is is no consolation to a mom & dad whose child has just been eaten.
Pit bull owners and pit bulls.
Comparing the IQ levels of those two groups, I’m sure the pit bulls come out on top.
C’mon, we all KNOW these so-called attacks never happen!
I’ll tell you what happened: that woman (Patrice Langley) was looking to rob that pit bull and give it’s biscuits and snacks to her daughter, who probably never gets a decent meal in the D.C. public school system (we all know about that), the mother sneaked up behind that pit bull, turned to her daughter and said “we gonna rip dat mutt off, watch dis!” and she jumped on that innocent and gentle animal, punching and flailing away, and I ask you: WHAT is an animal supposed to do when confronted with a mad, rabid and cold hearted human like that?!?
I’ll tell you what that animal does, being a noble pit bull, it uses the minimum amount of force necessary to protect itself, and to protect it’s property.
Of course now the attacker will claim that the little daughter was somehow at risk, and this poor pit bull, who was just sitting in an alley, minding it’s own business while casually snacking on some Milk Bones, will be condemned as a criminal, and put down as if it were a risk to life and limb.
I tell you, this society is going right down the tubes.
I feel ill. That poor pit bull.
Langley says she’s thankful she and her daughter are safe.
“I was thankful that I got hurt and my daughter was fine,” she said.
Good Mom! May God bless her and her daughter.
!BOOOM!...;0)
We all went crazy when the chimp attacked that lady....Yet these pit bull incidents happen every day...and this breed is STILL treated as if it’s just a normal dog.
Now think about this statement for a while.
How did "someone" come to be returning a pitbull? Did they borrow it? Do the owners have a lending library of pitbulls?
Somehow I smell a business of renting out really vicious dogs for shady reasons.
I'm not saying pitbulls haven't ever attacked people, however, don't condemn a whole breed because certain people tend to raise viscious dogs. Hell you might as well condemn humanity for every murderer in prison then.
That said, I feel sorry for the lady and her daughter but automatically people just start the “pitbull bashing”. Sad, so sad.
Then while your at it, make it illegal to own, labs, rottweilers, dobermans, german shepards, bulldogs, chow’s, and any other breed that bites anyone.
By the way, I have a nice scar on my face from a beagle, should we make it illegal to own beagles?? By the way try watching the dog whisperer sometime, it might give you a better respect for the proud breed of the pitbulls.
It’s cool. It’s a terrible thing when dogs attack but using the same logic ; in the past month many people have been shot and killed by someone with a gun. Guns should be banned!
My sentiments exactly. Too many kneejerk reactions to just about any tragedy these days.
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