Posted on 01/31/2006 3:32:23 PM PST by iPod Shuffle
NBC10.com 3-Year-Old Critical After Being Mauled By Pit Bull
POSTED: 3:14 pm EST January 30, 2006 UPDATED: 9:07 am EST January 31, 2006
NEW CASTLE, Del. -- A 3-year-old girl remains in critical condition at Christiana Hospital.
Police said the incident happened on Oakmont Avenue at 10:30 a.m. in New Castle.
Police and paramedics responded after they received the report of a child who was attacked by a pit bull. When they arrived, they found Destiny Campbell suffering from massive head and shoulder injuries.
Police said the victim and her mother had driven to a home to pick up the child's grandmother. While inside the home, a dog, named Diamond, attacked the child. Police said that the attack was unprovoked.
A group of area residents responded to the calls for help from relatives and began beating the dog with sticks and broom handles.
The SPCA later responded to the scene and caught the dog, which had fled from the residents.
Witnesses said that the dog was generally peaceful and calmed down immediately after the attack.
"After this happened, the dog appeared to be polite. The tail was wagging. Even when the SPCA arrived and had to corral the dog with the lasso, the dog was still listening," said Trinidad Navarro, of the New Castle County Police Department.
The pit bull belonged to a family member, Turquoise Robinson. Police took her into custody on unrelated charges.
As she was being taken into custody on Monday afternoon, Robinson saw NBC 10 reporter Tim Furlong near a police car waiting to take her away.
"Why are they taking you away?" asked Furlong, as Robinson walked by.
Robinson then spit on the reporter as a cameraman taped the incident, and she responded, "that's why."
Police then charged Robinson with spitting on Furlong.
Robinson has not been charged in connection with the pit bull attack.
Given your statement, would this also be true?.....
As well, it's impossible to take a pup of any breed and "not raise it hostily" and have it turn out "hostile" and then not blame the breed.
Yes. But there aren't report after report of such dogs tearing young children to pieces, supposedly without provocation now, are there?
Or perhaps you can find for me all the articles whereby non-rabid Retrievers and Labs have done similar!
Good luck!
You ranting, out of control fool.
I do not want to ban pit bulls.
I want pit bulls to turn on hysterical, nonsensical pit bull defenders and rip their freaking throats out.
Time to get back out to the multiplex to see Brokeback again.
"You are really a liberal who blames external factors for people's crimes."
Thank you for your wisdom, oh long-time Freeper of many postings and much experience and....
Uh, wait! You've been a member for less than two weeks.
Sorry, nothing you say counts.
Quit acting like an old-timer when you just got off the bus and the tires are still warm.
Hey, things don't work out in Ontario, you can always move to Beijing.
They just love all kinds of dogs there.
Karen Overall, a leading American dog behaviour specialist, recently reviewed the literature on dog attacks and concluded that the breeds most represented in dog bite data (1) vary over time, (2) are popular and (3) are not in proportion to their actual population. In almost all studies mongrels are the most common type of dog involved in attacks on humans. The variation in breed over time suggests that if specific dog breeds are legislated against, then another breed or type will be developed to meet demand for aggressive canines.In the late 1980s a list of breeds involved in 40 serious dogs attacks on children in Adelaide included German shepherd dogs (10), German shepherd crossbreds (5), rottweilers (7), pitbull terrier-type dogs (4), Siberian huskies (3) and one akita, doberman pinscher, labrador retriever, chow chow and Australian shepherd. Pitbull terrier-type dogs have been involved in many of the recently reported dog attacks and are the target for those promoting breed control legislation. But dog aggression was a public problem in New Zealand before this type of terrier became common and some of the breeds listed above may come under scrutiny in the near future. link
I'm pooped as well. But that doesn't say anything at all about the reasons why. Shepherds are often trained to attack. What are the specifics there. There is also no mention of rabid dogs.
Look, believe what you will. But why take a chance with a Pit Bull when there are hundreds of other breeds, dozens with similar positive traits, that can be substituted.
It often appears that people on the side of Pit Bulls through all of this are more in it for the argument than for a solution.
"Time to get back out to the multiplex to see Brokeback again."
Have fun. Where are you and your boyfriend eating afterward?
Because they need the chance.
Bwahaha... Freakin' fruitloop. Well by that estimation I outrank you, JR, so I'll vouch for the san man. He's done his homework and does us pit owners proud.
One comment you made earlier, something about "I know my dog has the potential to be dangerous but I'll keep it anyway" makes a point. What should you care if I choose to keep pits. As long as I keep them correctly, it's none of your beeswax.
Thanks for looking out. Us Pit owners have to stick together.
I think it was you posted that part about not even seeing reference to pits in "dangerous dog" lists some few decades ago. Now that I did not know. I speculate with this being the Age of the Media and whatnot, dog attack stories make for sensationalism, and references to pit bulls (whether valid or not) make for lurid content. Which everybody is into these days.
I haven't read all that many mauling reports, I reckon, but all the ones I've read (especially in my state) have to do with somebody being drunk or negligent. Hmmmm.
That was for you. I have it on very good authority that pit bull owners love this movie. Something about needing a certain kind of "manly" dog out in front of them to represent what might be missing in them....
I forget all of it, something like that....
"Well by that estimation I outrank you, JR, so I'll vouch for the san man."
That's just stupid. He's been a member for less than two weeks, and you and I have been members going on five years, with you being registered a few months longer than I. Dumb is as dumb does.
"One comment you made earlier, something about "I know my dog has the potential to be dangerous but I'll keep it anyway" makes a point. What should you care if I choose to keep pits. As long as I keep them correctly, it's none of your beeswax."
The whole thing comes down to "correctly." It's always the same gap-toothed, blank-eyed, slack-jawed boob hanging over the porch rail, speaking into the TV news camera, saying, It was a good dog afore the sheriff done shot 'im. Never hurt nobody before till today...when he ripped off the neighbor boy's head."
All the "stats" in the world don't change a fundamental truth that you continue to deny: pits are far and away the most "hair-trigger" of all canines, known for instantly acting deadly, when they've never done that before. I really don't care if Yorkies bite more...if one of them gets onto my calf, I'll slap him off. If a pit bites my calf, he's likely to snap the bone or rend the flesh from it. Big dif.
But go ahead, keep up with your "pit bull rights." And I'll keep up with my second amendment rights, always ready to plug a pit bull right in the brain.
Y'all enjoy yourself.
Are you trying to ask me on a date or something? That is disturbing. I like women. Maybe you'll meet a guy at the movie.
Yep, I'm the big ol dumbass for picking the side of somebody who comes out with reports and documentation, rather than some hair-trigger ad hominem act with an invective agenda. Yeppers.
But go ahead, keep up with your "pit bull rights." And I'll keep up with my second amendment rights, always ready to plug a pit bull right in the brain.
Sounds like a plan, JR. When you blow yer last fuse, one of us will be that slack-jawed hick saying "well he shore was a good ol boy afore the sheriff shotim..."
San, I'm sure you'll agree with me that I'll trust my pits sooner'd I'd trust many a human...
"San, I'm sure you'll agree with me that I'll trust my pits sooner'd I'd trust many a human..."
I agree 100%. My dog is a member of the family and everyone who meets is very impressed with him. Most people cannot match the loyalty of good dogs.
Apparently.
"Yep, I'm the big ol dumbass for picking the side of somebody who comes out with reports and documentation, rather than some hair-trigger ad hominem act with an invective agenda. Yeppers."
Well, you said it. Or was that sarcasm? You and the other knuckledragger can use all the "big" words you want, but it comes down to you and an hysterical minority of dog owners being in major denial about what your special breed is capable of doing with as much, or more, frequency than any other breed--that is, maiming, mauling and killing humans. You can massage the "stats" all you want. You can call it the media "overreporting," or "sensationalizing" (what are they sensationalizing, nonexisitent dogs attacking nonexistent people...so, all these newspaper and television stories are completely made up, huh?). You can even say your special doggie is your special buddy, and better than your bestest friend ever (all the while ignoring that most of us dog owners bond that way with our pooches no matter what their breed is--"My dog is a member of the family and everyone who meets is very impressed with him." You and your pit really have to get over yourselves).
But you can't change what we all know, and what you know to be true if you'd only admit it. They're killers.
"Most people cannot match the loyalty of good dogs."
The emotions and psychology of a dog and a human are really quite different, and do not bear a direct comparison. Unless of course you're a pit bull hysteric, and have deluded yourself into conflating the basic canine traits that many of us enjoy and appreciate in our dogs with some sort of "personal statement" on "liberty" or "freedom" that must be upheld, no matter how much facts, logic or basic common sense intrude. But as the First Amendment does not defend anyone against screaming Fire! in a crowded theater, illogical positions don't give you the right to harbor animals that are the most likely of their species to harm or kill us. Yeah, you nuts may have all the facts, but how is it that all animal control professionals, and all LEOs, know the pit to be the most dangerous dog out there? (Wait, of course! The answer is, The Great Pit Bull Conspiracy, Wherein The Media and Everyone Else Plots to Make the World Think That The Crimes of 15-year-old Toy Poodles With Cataracts Are Actually the Work of Pit Bulls!)
And something I've always wondered: If it't not the BREED, but the OWNER that turns pits into dangerous animals (yes, many of us wonder how you can make both sides of the argument at once--they're not killers, but it's the bad owners who make them killers), what is it about this breed that attacts so many "bad" owners? Chew on that with your kibble, and try to remember not to get back to me--it was rhetorical, y'know?
I have a neighbor who raises pits. She use to show them in pulling contests. She has a male and a female. She swears that pits have gotten a bum rap, that if they are raised and handled properly there won't be problems. She swears her's are the most gentle dogs you could want. BUT (I find this funny, but also telling, and to give her credit responsible). They are both ALWAYs in crates or tied out with "LOG CHAINS". Children (even her own son), are told to stay away from the dogs, and no other dogs are allowed around them.
I had to feed for her one time when she went on vacation. Everything went fine but I admit to being nervous, my husband went with me and took a gun. I think it hurt her feelings, she asked if I was nervous of her dogs, and I told her yes. Now she boards them at a vets when she goes, and I just have to feed the horses and other animals.
Becky
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