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.
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It make the dad feel better.
Pit Bulls can seem to be very friendly most of the time but they have been bread to be attack dogs. Once their switch is flipped, they cannot be controlled. They should never be allowed in the civilian community. These animals are not pets. They are weapons that at any given point are only under marginal control at best, and at worst, the results are always horrific.
Exactly, I agree. Warning to dog owners, your dog harms my child I’m coming for you ...
“The dog, which was euthanized, tore through Meagan’s cheeks, exposing her teeth, bit off one of her nostrils and tore off so much flesh around one of her eyes that Riedel feared her daughter would lose the eye.”
That poor little girl.
This is sick. This senseless carnage must be stopped.... regardless of whose damn fault it is or what the cause is... it needs to friggen stop.
Prayers up...
The owner has been charged, and she’s facing the music. Your solution however would leave another person maimed, and dear old dad would be in prison. That’s truly too stupid for words.
It’s a breed. Controversial subject that shouldn’t be IMO as the dogs are dangerous as Hell. There is no knowing when they are going to go off. It’s the not IF thing, it’s the WHEN thing with them. They are nuts.
I take the bus to work every morning but drive my car and park closer to the stop. Someone just moved in the end apt. on the street and have a pitbull. The first time I passed he was on a lead from his dog house in the back yard (small) and he was straining/lunging so hard, I thought he was going to break it. Needless to say, I was terrified and got to my car as quickly as possible. Yesterday he was at the second floor window and was barking at me again. I don’t know where I can park where I don’t have to pass this “thing”.
His son has one, and he swears based on his experience with that one dog, that they're no different from Golden Retrievers...that the bad ones are completely the result of how that particular dog was treated and/or trained.
I tell him he's nuts, and needs a broader education on the subject.
There might be an occasional aggressive Golden Retriever, sure, but it's a shock to hear about. No one is shocked when there's a dog attack and it turns out to be a Pit Bull. That's what they see as doing their job. It's in their genes.
Good response to that jerk of an owner!
Even if we assume the average pit bull is as good-natured as the rest of the dog population, and that's stretching it, it still has the ability to maim a person much more severely when it loses its temper.
I was thinking of how scared you were when the pit bull lunged at you and the owner laughed it off. I wonder how the owner would have felt if you decide to pull a gun on him, without warning? He would have been as scared as you were, when his dog lunged at you, but sadly you would have been arrested. Why does his demon dog get a pass, yet you go to jail?
Yeah, good point! The guy was a typical smart-ass macho wanna be. The vicious dog was an extension of his “manhood,” I guess.
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