Horrified Dog Owner Returns Home to Find Two Pit Bulls Killed Three of her Beloved Pets

Daily Mail ^ | 4/8/2014 | By ASSOCIATED PRESS and ALEXANDRA KLAUSNER

[Bon of Babble]

Two pit bulls broke through a fence in a Nevada community, entered a neighbor's home through a dog door and killed three dogs inside while the residents were away, animal control officers said.

Jennifer, a resident of the home in the Reno suburb of Spanish Springs returned Friday to find Jill, a black lab, Gucci, a shih tzu, and Buddy a Pekingese dead inside inside the house on Reiger Springs Drive.

The dogs were seized and their owner is facing a citation, said Barry Brode, director of Washoe County Animal Services. The pit bulls could be euthanized if a judge orders it.

[goldstategop]

Why do people have German Shepherds? People want a domesticated wolf.

Nothing wrong with it. I know because I love this breed and the extraordinary loyalty of this dog to its owner.

[Bon of Babble]

So true.

I remember the words of the dog trainer from the obedience class I attended with my Shih-Tzu — NEVER EVER trust another dog not to attack or bite, they are animals and you do not know what they are going to do.

My Shih-Tzu was viciously attacked by a Katrina rescue dog who was “sweet and gentle as could be” according to the owner. NO question in my mind that if I hadn’t picked my dog up and held him over my head he would have been killed. The owner could barely control this “sweet” dog who had “never done anything of the sort before.”

I am always on guard around other dogs, even with my OWN large police dog mix.

[goldstategop]

There are dogs who run amok. And we should take the appropriate measures to have them put down.

When all is said and done, the dog is still man’s best friend.

[Bon of Babble]

You are giving people ideas (again)!!

Time to report you to the moderators for the 10000th time!!

[iontheball]

Its unfair to tarnish all pit bulls as being a menace based on the actions of a few rogue dogs.
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Yes, I know, pit bulls are dogs of peace until the pit has a bad day, then some person or animal is going to die. It doesn’t take much to trip them off. It may be nothing more than a child or animal gleefully running around inside the house that triggers his blood gene. I have observed this pit behavior close up. It was like the pit was waging war inside his head trying to keep his attack genes from taking over. The observed behavior scared the hell out of me.

[Heart of Georgia]

“a doggy door would be the last thing I would provide...shotgun would be my first investment”

Seriously, how do you really protect your property from these attacks? How many barriers should we have?

The dogs came through a fence before they entered through the doggie door.

And the homeowner wasn’t home, so the shotgun would have been useless.

If the homeowner had been home, there would have been a worse tragedy, as most of us don’t think about sitting in our fenced back yard or our living room with a loaded shotgun.

[9YearLurker]

Good for you for volunteering your time for shelter dogs.

But I think shelters are doing a disservice to their communities by adopting out pit bulls. Below the level of this sort of news story are many lesser incidents with pit bulls that are adopted from shelters and then become aggressive in the home. They may be taken back to the shelter and adopted out again.

Better IMO to limit their circulation in the population and let them be the unfortunate dogs to be euthanized for a generation or two until we have a more benign canine population in general.

It’s a shame when families go to the local pound and find only pit bulls available for adoption.

[Bon of Babble]

One of the photos in the linked article on the Daily Mail shows a child’s potty chair covered in blood, from the dogs that were killed so obviously a small child lives in the home.

Yes, it could have been a LOT worse.

We have trouble with coyotes climbing fences around where I live in the California foothills. I am ever vigilant of my yard being secured and have high fences with spikes on top. Some neighbors are putting special coyote rollers on top of their fences to prevent them from climbing over — appreantly they can climb over 8-foot fences — to get at small dogs, cats, etc. in people’s yards.

[publius911]

Not every one trains a pit bull for fighting.

You seem immune to the obvious.
Pit bulls don't need to be trained to kill. It is bred into them for hundreds of generations.

They must, without exception, be trained NOT to kill. Letting nature take its course is part of the problem.

[MarineBrat]

The last thing on my two dog's minds is/was killing another dog or a person. There's too many tennis balls in the world that must be eradicated first.

I've had a purebred Chocolate Labrador Retriever, and also a purebred German Shorthair Pointer. (Seen above rescuing a tennis ball from certain drowning) The lab retrieves. It's what she has always done, without me showing her how. It's what she loves to do. The pointer points. She has always done it. She just knows how from birth. Dogs are bred for specific purposes. Some variability exists within that, and the dog's owner can elicit a particular behavior or tendency based upon training, but a dog is still a product of its breeding.

[cuban leaf]

Tell that to the victims and their families.

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No matter how rare a tragedy is to a family, that fact offers them no comfort.

[null and void]

I get a frequent crier discount...

[Jeff Chandler]

Why do these pit people always seem to have SO MANY animals in their homes?

The shih tzu and the pekinese only count as half a dog each.

[wideminded]

If the owner of the three dead dogs files a civil suit against the owner of the pit bulls, I wonder what is the maximum amount that could be claimed and awarded. Presumably it would be more than the cost of replacing the dead dogs.

[meadsjn]

Not that I’m against the dogs. I would just like to see the owners made legally responsible for what they do. And I believe that is already the case.

No, it is NOT the case. If the owners were put to death when their dog kills, then it would be the case.

[redangus]

BS. I have known three people who bought that line only to have family members attacked by these “sweet dogs”. In all three cases the dogs had been raised from puppies, been well socialized and were thought to be great family pets until they turned into Cujo. In all three cases the owner had to shoot the dog after they turned on family members. One was actually trying to break through the front door to get to the wife and child. As the man got out of his truck the dog turned on him. He was able to kick the dog hard enough to get away and get back into his truck to retrieve his 357. The dog was crashing against the side of the truck when the man shot him.

They are such sweet dogs. None of these dogs were mistreated and all the owners were good people who bought the sweet dog/great family protector crap. They learned the hard way that these dogs were trained to kill and are walking time bombs. Thankfully no one was seriously hurt, but one of the children is scared to death of dogs and probably always will be. Another has a scar on her leg which will be a lasting reminder of owning this sweet breed.

[OldPossum]

I have a big dog that looks like a wolf but my dog is strictly a family dog.

Have any trouble getting home insurance or personal liability insurance?

[DCBryan1]

I see a pit bull not on a leash and I shoot him dead on the spot

EggActly. I carry a John Norrell Suppressed 77/22 and suppressed pistol just for the occasion. I've killed a half dozen dogs on the loose in Central AR.

[redangus]

Partly right. In fact Pit Bulls have been bred since day one to be killers. There has never been a sweet PB.

It is true any dog can bite. My neighbor had to put a Cockerbdown because he bit her and others, but PBs are bred to be violent. They are bred to fight till the death. Most dogs will fight until one gives the submissive sign. PBs fight until they or the other dog is lifeless.

[cuban leaf]

No, it is NOT the case. If the owners were put to death when their dog kills, then it would be the case.

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We reserve the death penalty for premeditated murder.