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Girl maimed by pit bull coming to terms with appearance
Gazette (Colorado) ^

Posted on 07/16/2010 11:29:18 AM PDT by Chet 99

CARLYN RAY MITCHELL The Gazette Six-year-old Meagan Garrow told her mom she didn’t want to see her face — severely damaged Monday when a pit bull attacked her — until she was 10.

But the girl took a peek at that swollen, stitched face through gaps of towels her mom, Genevieve Riedel, had put over the bathroom mirror at Memorial Hospital.

“I’m a monster, mommy,” Meagan said. “I look creepy.”

Coming to terms with her face is one of several challenges Meagan faces in the coming weeks.

Her life and appearance changed dramatically Monday afternoon when a neighbor’s pit bull ran out of its house and bit Meagan as she came through the front gate of her friend’s house on Dogwood Drive, where Meagan’s family also lives.

Read more: http://www.gazette.com/articles/hospital-101610-monday-face.html#ixzz0ts4RDG1k

(Excerpt) Read more at gazette.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: doggieping; pitbull; pitbulls
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1 posted on 07/16/2010 11:29:20 AM PDT by Chet 99
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To: Chet 99

So sad.


2 posted on 07/16/2010 11:30:49 AM PDT by valkyry1
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To: Chet 99

FUND FOR MEDICAL BILLS

The Meagan Garrow Fund, to help the family with medical bills, is set up at Wells Fargo. To donate, use account # 7808251453 at any Wells Fargo branch.


4 posted on 07/16/2010 11:35:51 AM PDT by Thurston_Howell_III (Ahoy polloi... where did you come from, a scotch ad?)
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To: Chet 99

No one has any business owning a pit bull any more than they have a right to keep a lion as a pet. All pit bulls should be put down.


5 posted on 07/16/2010 11:36:45 AM PDT by Lou Budvis
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To: SJSAMPLE

They should all be exterminated. They are not fit to be pets. A little girl here in Arizona, a couple of years ago in Snowflake, was killed by one.

I hate them, and my kid will not ever get near one, if I have anything to say about it.

Period.


6 posted on 07/16/2010 11:36:49 AM PDT by cld51860
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To: Chet 99

Very sad.


7 posted on 07/16/2010 11:43:18 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs ( I have nothing better to do than sit around all night watching a lunatic not turn into a werewolf.)
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To: Chet 99
I am so tired of people telling me it's the owner not the dog. That is a pile of bull $hit! The breed has been so inbreed that it's brain is shot. These urban thugs breed these dogs for their aggressiveness and mean temper. Some people are just plain stupid. Look at what that chimp did to that poor woman.It's the same with pit owners.
8 posted on 07/16/2010 11:47:34 AM PDT by baddog 219
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To: valkyry1; Admin Moderator
Maybe someone could ping some of the good Doctors here at Free republic to see if they know a good Plastic Surgeon. I'd be willing to donate to that cause. This little girl has a whole childhood and life ahead of her and shouldn't be scarred to look at her face or worry about anything but being an innocent child.

Prayers for her and her family. Thank G-d the beast didn't succeed in killing her!

9 posted on 07/16/2010 11:53:23 AM PDT by poobear
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I was once walking down a street in Leucadia, CA one evening and a pit bull charged me from the bed of a pick up truck. I admit, it scared the hell out of me. It stopped at the end of its chain but I know damned well the thing would have mauled me. The moron owner laughed and said she was “harmless.” I told the dolt that if I had had my sidearm on me it would have been dead. He didn’t think that was too funny.


10 posted on 07/16/2010 11:54:40 AM PDT by cld51860
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To: baddog 219

Bingo. These dogs are bred to mindlessly attack, not protect. If you want a guard dog, shell out the cash to a reputable German Shepard breeder and pay for some training. Pit bulls offer just as reliable “protection” as a shot-gun trap or a land mine.


11 posted on 07/16/2010 11:55:17 AM PDT by Lou Budvis
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To: Chet 99

Just heartbreaking.


12 posted on 07/16/2010 12:02:38 PM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Release the Second Chakra !!!!!!!" ... Al Gore, 10/24/06)
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To: Chet 99

Terrible.


13 posted on 07/16/2010 12:02:47 PM PDT by b4its2late (The Lord made man before woman to give him time to think of an answer for her first question.)
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To: SJSAMPLE

The little girl’s Dad should make sure the owner of the dog ends up with the same injuries caused by his dog.


14 posted on 07/16/2010 12:03:40 PM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: Chet 99

Is Pit Bull a specific breed or a general term?


15 posted on 07/16/2010 12:08:47 PM PDT by pabianice
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“(the mother) Riedel said she harbors no ill will for the breed, but, had she known, she might have walked her children down the road instead of watching them from their front yard.”

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That action would not absolutely prevent what happened. The mother is trying to be gratious with this comment. For this case, the dog’s owner should be gratious by putting down the dog and burning the body on a pyre in his front yard.


16 posted on 07/16/2010 12:09:16 PM PDT by HighWheeler
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Right. Dad should go maim the woman that owns the dog, because that’s going to make everything better. Too stupid for words.


17 posted on 07/16/2010 12:12:15 PM PDT by Melas
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To: Melas

If you don’t think the owner should face the music, YOU are too stupid for words.


18 posted on 07/16/2010 12:16:09 PM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: Chet 99

Ping


19 posted on 07/16/2010 12:18:54 PM PDT by AdamBomb
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To: HighWheeler

Time to dust off that anti-freeze meatball recipe.


20 posted on 07/16/2010 12:19:21 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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