Pet pit bull mauls and kills 15-day-old baby

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[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

[brytlea]

Well, it’s ok, I don’t make anything chocolate anyway. Pralines tho....

[Salamander]

LOL!

That’s *so* “Wiley Coyote”...:)

[Salamander]

Pecans?

Drooooool.

[brytlea]

Why did he think those pix were cute? Creepy..

[kanawa]

Do you know one of my dogs actually ate a kong?

Wow!
Sam picks away on one of Gizmo's kongs.
I take it away from him when I catch him but I bet he'd 'disappear it' if I didn't.

[brytlea]

Oh yeah...but wait, aren’t nuts on the banned list??

[brytlea]

I misled. I took it away before did actually ate the whole thing, but she was making a good start. And this was a GOLDEN. A real Danger Girl.

[kanawa]

He was said to be a Shih-Tzu/Maltese cross but he seems a bit big for that.
It’s often crossed my mind that he may be part poodle.

Some videos give an idea of his size...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37tYhRvDjns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRmcWjfBFmM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kmn_OiWEh0

[Salamander]

The same reason 3 years olds think disgusting things are ‘funny’.

Dems have infantile minds.

[Salamander]

Yup.

Long Elegant Legs will be along shortly to administer your child-abuse beating.

[brytlea]

I will bribe her with pralines and home made cream cheese. She will forgive me poste haste. Or at least quickly.

[Salamander]

Yeah...”Killer Pomeranian!!!” just doesn’t have the emotional “trigger phrase” clout, does it?

[even when it actually happens]

[Salamander]

Actually, that’s a very high compliment to you.

They are engaging in mutual grooming behavior and have obviously deigned to include ~you~ in their pack.

As you might expect, the Alpha dog is “groomed” *far* more often than the lower ranking dogs.

It’s very much a pack/social behavior so they must really highly approve of you...:)

[LongElegantLegs]

He’s so cute!
He looks a lot like a poodle I had, named Tango. I used to dye his hair with kool-aid and vinegar.

I love that video of him in the mud, he’s so happy!

[LongElegantLegs]

HEY HEY HEY! I told you, nuts are RIGHT OUT. Why don't you do the safe thing; get some silken tofu, roll it up into little balls, and pretend it's nuts.

Come to think of it, dairy makes my children sick, so cream cheese should be banned as well. Just stir the tofu balls into more tofu.

[brytlea]

Eat your heart out. You just can’t do this with tofu.
http://eatitanyway.com/cook-it/pralines/

[Ditter]

I am the one who fills the food dish, so they like me a lot!

[LongElegantLegs]

Ooooooh, those look so good! We had a pecan tree in our back yard, but it’s officially dead this year. :-(

[brytlea]

That’s an official bummer. I bet it was killed by a pit bull.

[oldenuff2no]

Excuse me, you don't know me well enough to question my integrity.
The facts and figures that I use are compiled by several different branches of our government and I have no input into how they arrive at any of the totals. So stick that where the sun doesn't shine and enjoy the ride. If you think that any “expert” can get up on a witness stand and say what anyone simply wants them to say unchallenged your are dumber than a a box of rocks. Every word I say has to be backed up by statistical data and explicit data, pictures, and official medical comment and it will always be challenged.
Every bite on a body has to be analyzed by the medical world from both sides. Every witness interviewed about every action, reaction, sound, and movement. All of this is then charted and mapped with time lines established. From all of this data I draw conclusions based on over 40 years working with dogs. I've caught well over a thousand different dogs on sleeves or in bite suits and trained more bomb, dope, and attack dogs than I can remember. I've interviewed many mauling victims who survived, witnessed autopsies of some who didn't and studied thousands of pictures of the damage done in in K-9 assault cases. You may be good with a keyboard but from that point on you simply display a total ignorance of what I do. Yes I get paid for this. It takes me at least a week to do the research I need to do if everything, including the dog, is handy. It takes twice that amount of time if I have to dig for everything. I get paid no matter if I testify or not. My income does not depend on my conclusions or if I support any point of view. Because of my integrity and honesty I get contacted about a couple dozen times a year for my specialty. I work on about half of those requests, manage to reach a conclusion on half of those, and end up in court on two or three. You have never seen the autopsy pictures of a young child who has been ripped apart and partially consumed by a pair of fuzzy cuddly pitt bulls. May you never be so lucky. Again, enjoy the ride.