Posted on 04/18/2006 7:54:07 AM PDT by Wristpin
A Sand Springs woman is badly bitten by her neighbor's two pit bulls Thursday night, while she was in her living room.
She thinks the dogs were after her two daschunds when they came crashing through the screen door and as News on 6 reporter Steve Berg explains, she got caught in the middle.
Teresa Willis is covered with bruises and bites after a terrifying encounter with her next-door neighbors' two pit bulls. "To put it mildly, it was extremely terrifying."
It all happened as she was sitting in her living room. It was a mild evening so she slid the glass up on her storm door. “I was sitting here reading and my dogs were sitting over here." She says her neighbor’s 3-year-old boy had let the dogs out and the lead dog came over and charged partway through the screen.
It wasn't her 3 year old... it was a three year old at the home of the dogs that let them loose. This lady was just an innocent lady next door.
Rabid Coons are very common out here in N California, and our animal control people try to refer them to Fish and Game. Fish and Game just ignores any calls you have about rabid coons.
Well I am just glad I killed this one before he made it into the back yard with my 5 dogs.
A large % of mountain lions which are legally killed after they cause problems or present themselves to be dangerous are rabid. The #1 and 2 source of the rabies are coons and skunks.
Yes, I know. And it's terrible an innocent lady got bit and is now going to have to have skin grafts...an awful situation for her and thank goodness her little pups didn't seem to be harmed.
But if those dogs had focused their attention on that three year old boy, they likely would've killed him. The parents of that child took a terrible risk letting him around those dogs unsupervised (which I'm assuming he was unsupervised, or he wouldn't have been allowed to let the dogs out.)
Unfortunately, I took that risk myself and my oldest boy has the scars on his face to prove it. We knew she had a grudge against him and didn't take it seriously. He wanted to hug her and she didn't want him around and corrected him. She was big enough to kill him if she'd had the mind.
Some breeds of dogs are great around their family kids and would protect them with their lives. The Pit Bill breed is not a breed I would consider as one of them, though. And any small child should be supervised around any dog, in my opinion...a child can be abnoxious to a dog and even the sweetest pooch can have it's tolerance levels!
Agreed that toddlers don't usually do too well when pit bulls decide to go off.
And this scene was probably not as quiet as it's being portrayed. I'm picturing that upon seeing the loose dogs in the street, the doxies went bananas, barking at the screen door. The pits became interested and busted partially through the door. The woman came to break it up and diverted them.
That said... dogs that would be set off by the barking of little dogs in a doorway were time bombs...
I knew whatcha meant ;~D
And I believe these dogs, these Pit Bulls, are bred for aggression, not smarts. To fight and not stop. So they potentially could have heard those pups next door, gotten the urge to fight, and simply attacked the first thing they saw that moved. Like a wasp will sting the nearest thing if something disturbs it's nest.
Makes me shudder at the thought.
I saw one at the humane society once...a huge pit bull. You know how Homer and Gidget and Cisco (and Pippin and Pepper too) have such expressive faces? Alert eyes? This creature had the blank expression of a psycho. Completely devoid of any intelligence. It just sat and stared at me.
They have been bred to fight to the death, alone. Any other feature they have is an accident.
"They have been bred to fight to the death, alone. Any other feature they have is an accident."
Uh oh...The Pit activists will be here shortly to dispell any correlation between breed, violence and risk.
Sand Springs, btw, is not far from where I live. I have family that lives there and my mom wanted me to drive her up here to see her family...so I did and fell in love with the area. It wasn't long before we moved here.
You have no idea how many times I've been around that tree. ;~D
I'm a dog lover, but I believe in selective breeding and the task pit bulls were bred to do does not equip them with the traits most of us want in a pet. I feel tremendous sorrow for every single one of them that suffer. Even these dogs in this story, because they are merely what they are. But I'd never recommend one as a pet. Not when there's so many great breeds out there that are likely to be so much better. That's just my opinion.
We live way out in the country and my neighbor brought home a Pit about a month ago. We have a little Chihuahua. I told him the first time that thing came across the property line, I was going to shoot it on the spot...absolutely no questions asked.
It wasn't a week later, we caught our 4lb Chi actually chasing the Pit out of the yard....almost funny. The problem with that breed is that they are so unpredictable. One minute they're scared of a little Chi and the next minute they're mauling a human....you just never know. I called the Sheriff's Dept. and filed a complaint. I told them the same thing I told the owner: I was going to shoot the Pit next time it crossed the line. Sheriff's Deputy showed up and we went and paid the owner a visit. Once again, I re-iterated to all that I would defend my property and family. He had a choice: chain it up or get rid of it. I also told him that if it broke loose and did any harm to any thing or anybody, I would sue him.....right after I shot it.
The Pit disappeared the next day......
Too bad there was no fence....could have avoided the confrontation but I suspect this is not the best of neighbors anyway. Of course you would not object if your Chihuahua strayed into the neighbor's yard and he shot it?
Contained, conschmained. If a person while sitting in her own living room is at mortal risk from the dogs next door, the problem with the dogs is more than one of simple containment.
What lifeform DOES do well when pit bulls decide to go off????
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