Back when I owned Arabs, I had a gelding at the trainer for finishing breaking. He was riding along a country road, and three dogs ran out at the horse through some brush, spooked it, and the trainer was thrown. The horse stepped on his head. He survived, with only a very large cut.
The dogs were not pit bulls. Should they have been put down? Should their breed (hounds) have been destroyed? Should there be laws in place, prohibiting any loose dogs anywhere, including in the woods, where hunting dogs are trained?
If the pit bulls were attacking the horses, why did the girls dismount? Were they bitten? Were the horses?
As far as I can see, this story is a far reach to indict pit bulls. I’ll go back and follow your link, to see if there is more information. But dogs and horses don’t always do well together, unless they are raised together. My mastiff hates them, and cows, and deer.
oh no, your precious little angel puppy wupkins are never wrong. I am sure this girl somehow “provoked” the attack, yada yada... What a joke.
Pit bulls and the owners who either train them to be bad or have no control over them are the ones who have indicted the pit bull.
Homeowners insurance should not cover damage inflicted by large dogs. Let these monster-loving people lose their homes and savings when their little priecious mutilates someone else’s children.
Whether the dogs concerned were pit bulls or not, the child should have been wearing an ASTA certified helmet if she was riding a horse. Something else might well have spooked the horse and caused it to dump her. And it is a blow to the head, not a dogbite, that’s causing her coma.
If a group of pits actually attacked a couple of girls on horses, they should be put down, just as if they were shepherds, rotties, or labs.
However, this story doesn’t pass muster. Why didn’t the girls just run off on the horses? Instead they got off? And of course there is a difference between “spooking” a horse and attacking it. The owner should have been responsible for letting dogs run loose like that.
I was attacked once by two dogs - a shepherd mix and a hound. Fortunately some neighbors came to my aid. When animal control came by, they attacked the animal control guy also.