Thank you, JoeProBono
Posted on 01/02/2012 8:55:41 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
A Chicago man was left in critical condition after two pit bull terriers attacked him as he jogged along the city's lakefront Monday morning.
The 62-year-old man was running in the city's South Shore neighborhood at approximately 6 a.m. when the mauling occurred. He sustained bites all over his body, including on his face.
"They were just going after the man like he was a piece of steak," Stanley Lee, who swung a baseball bat at the dogs in hopes to free the jogger, told MyFoxChicago.com. He went on to say the dogs went for the jogger's throat, face and arms, and called the attack was the worst thing he's ever seen.
Police officers found the dogs a short distance away from the site of the attack and fatally shot the animals as they attempted to attack them, department spokesman Officer Robert Perez said.
Neither officer was injured, he said.
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***Your’re wrong on so many fronts. First this is not a rural area.***
In the city is a whole new ballgame. Dogs should be penned there. I live in a rural area, and have to keep my dogs penned even though I have 15 acres for them to run on.
It seems that since the county paved my narrow dirt road, the city joggers decided to use it, which set of my dogs. the road is so narrow that the jogggers run in the middle of the road. I expect to find one of the local hot rod teen drivers to come flying over the road and wipe out a jogger any day.
Yeah, I'm always hearing about roving packs of crazed Chihuahuas attacking people. And, of course, there's a story nearly every day of some gang-banger using his Puggle to rip into a rival. (rolls eyes)
Pitts are bred to fight - to the death..it's innate in their DNA...It's like having a loaded gun laying around
This. Thank you.
No I don’t.
A jogger is not normally chased beyond the dog’s territory.
I am a jogger. I’m speaking from experience.
German Shepherds are way up there on the list, which is why they are often one of a dozen or so breeds like pit bulls, Rottweilers and Chows, that many home insurance companies won’t insure against if you have one in the home. I was lucky that AAA home insurance does not “ban” GSDs from coverage under their home policies, but many other companies do ban them.
The biggest difference is that GSDs will give you one or two brutal bites and then if they don’t feel threatened, they tend to break off. Pit bulls tend to press the attack while you are beating them on the skull with a baseball bat. Pit bulls are the ticks of the dog world - if you pull them off the head stays locked on to your body. OK, just kidding but the point is, they will tend to press the attack and keep biting your neck and face until they are sure you are dead. GSDs don’t do that.
Don't be runnin' in Chicago, then!
hmmm... thank you for that information. I just gave my experience that the pitbulls were perhaps easier to make “nice”? Because GSDs require a lot more effort, methinks...
Well, I've noticed that smaller dogs are in fact more likely to bite. The thing is that if a rat-dog bites you, they may draw blood, but not more, while if a pit-bull bites it does a lot of injury.
A properly trained dog should be loathe to disobey a command, especially on a leash.
The number of dog owners who can actually control their animals is close to 0%. Dogs are stubborn, willful, and dangerous creatures which must be dominated by their owners. But that takes a commitment of time and effort. Most people buy dogs when they are cute little puppies, then ignore them.
It's a shame, but if a person isn't willing to do what it takes to be the alpha, he should stick to cats or goldfish or something.
Very true.
Bears!
Yikes!
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