*bonk*
Posted on 06/03/2011 7:47:48 PM PDT by Jim 726
Pet pit bull mauls and kills 15-day-old baby
Pit bulls and other large dogs continue to maim and kill people. Is it because these dogs are aggressive and dangerous or are they owned by irresponsible and careless people?
Buster didn't have a history of being aggressive. He was a family pet, a year old and hyper like many young dogs. Buster's owner, 25-year-old Mallory Wildig had been staying at her mother's house following the birth of Darius on February 4 along with her 2-year-old son, Keylin Tillman. She would return home to feed Buster and let him outside. The times she couldn't get home a friend of her father would stop by to feed the dog. Wildig and her two children returned home on February 19. She had Keylin feed the dog, he was then let outside and given a bath afterward.
After reading to the children in Keylin's room she turned a movie on for Keylin and took the infant to her room for a nap. After closing the door she returned to Keylin's room and laid down with him for his nap. The dog was on the floor near them. Her cell phone woke her up about 10 minutes later. She went to check on Darius and found him on the floor dead.
The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety report said she, “discovered that Darius was dead and had been mauled and partially consumed by Buster."
The report said she sobbed throughout her initial interview with Detective Sheila Goodell. According to Mlive.com Wildig told the detective when she found her son his bassinet was tipped over and Darius was on the floor.
According to the police report Wildig said, “When I walked into the room, there was blood on the bassinet and he just looked like a little doll on the floor. It felt like all of this was a nightmare.”
Charges of involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to animals were sought against Wildig, but the Kalamazoo County Prosecutor’s Office declined to authorize charges. lamazoo County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Carrie Klein said, “This was her baby. She loved her baby. She was traumatized by what happened.”
Klein said to charge Klein there there would have be gross negligence showed.
Klein said, “Nobody ever saw any aggressive or violent tendencies from the pet at all. There was no way for the mother to know it was going to attack and kill someone. It was not gross negligence on her part to have the dog running loose in the house with the baby in the bassinet. She had no way of knowing the dog was going to do what it did.”
Buster was euthanized and an autopsy showed the dog's stomach was full of food.
Last month, Saquina Jubeark, a mother of three little boys, ages 2, 4 and 5 said she left the room they were in to get something out of the stroller. When she returned to the room where the boys were she saw her Cane Corso tearing at the 4-year-old. The little boy died from being bitten in the head and neck.
According to neighbors the home was like a zoo with the Cane Corso, a pit bull, a German Shepherd, a parrot and a snake.
Neighbors said it took 10 firefighters to remove the dogs from the home.
Nydailynews.com reports Kenny Riser the superintendent of the building said "People were scared of those dogs. The dogs belong to the husband, who is seldom here. This was a tragedy waiting to happen."
Shelbra Freeman, 72-years-old saw her neighbors pit bull loose and was trying to let them know when the dog turned on her.
Another neighbor heard the dog barking and when she went outside she saw Freeman near her yard. wyff4.com reports her neighbor Erica Sykes said, "(Freeman) was just laying here screaming for help and she had blood running everywhere. So, I just wrapped her arm up with a towel and squeezed it real tight and just tried to help her breathe and calm down because she was still screaming .All I was worried about was just helping her. I mean, it was shocking."
Another neighbor said, "I ran over there. She was sitting up with her ear lobe chewed off and blood all over her arms and, I mean, it was just horrible." Freeman is recovering in a hospital.
Chad McBride from the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office said the dog is being quarantined for 10 days and the owner, David Milner, has been cited for no proof of rabies and dog running at large.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/307542#ixzz1OGr13zrS
I have to insert something in here. Why does dark chocolate have to be good for you instead of milk chocolate? HUH?
YOUR post had too many words.
Cliff Notes, please.
;]
Do you know one of my dogs actually ate a kong?
Because I said so.
Nyaaah!
[And I know everything about chocolate so you must accept it on face value. It’s for the children.]
Well, I was going to tell him that I never meant to bring home a pit bull, that I had vetoed a couple of pits my husband picked out, and I darn near returned Swiper when I figured out his backround.
I would have missed out on the most amazing dog I’ve ever owned, if I had done that. I have been fond of all of my dogs over the years, but Swiper is the only one who I would call a blessing. I don’t own him because he makes me feel ‘bad’, or ‘special’, but because he is a truly amazing animal.
That’s what I would have told him, if he cared, but I think he ran off. Maybe it was all the words...
*Salamander makes note to *never* tease ~that~ dog.
Oh, he’s beautiful! Is he a poodle?
ROFLOL!
Brevity is not my middle name... :)
Altho, Brytlea Brevity DOES have a ring to it.... But it would be a lie.
I though you had a pit bull because your willie was too small?
I’m all confused, now.
:-P
[look on the bright side...maybe he actually ran into the brick wall of reality and is just temporarily passed out from the shock of hitting truth, head-on and full speed...um...naaah]
;D
I have a food blog....I trump you. ;)
We’re talking about Rep Weiner now?
*bonk*
[AKA The 18" "Velociraptor" whose screaming wrath *all* my dogs dread and fear]
Terrifying, isn't she?...:)
Drat.
I was gonna say that.
LOL
I was faking it, anyway.
LOL
Apparently he’s ‘retreaded’ so your vent will get a good, regular workout again...:)
Yeah.
Mr “I Can’t Recall Whether I Ever Photographed My Crotch Or Not”.
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