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Woman Killed in Pit Bull Attack
firstcoastnews.com ^ | 02 Oct 07 | Ashley Coleman

Posted on 10/02/2007 3:49:13 PM PDT by Drew68

MIDDLEBURG, FL -- Two pit bulls killed their owner in Middleburg Tuesday morning.

The incident happened at a home on Cosmos Road, which is south east of County Road 218 and Hibiscus Avenue.

The victim is identified as 42-year-old Tina Marie Canterbury. The dogs turned on her when she took out the trash this morning.

Authorites say the dogs also bit the woman's grown son in his neck. He's been treated at the scene for his injuries.

A family friend rushed over and shot one of the dogs. Both dogs ran away.

Deputies trapped one of the dogs right away and killed it. The second dog ran loose in the neighborhood for at least an hour before deputies caught it and killed it.

The Clay County Sheriff's Office says two red bone pit bulls were involved.

Authorities say the dogs have never attacked people before.


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: breedofpeace; dogofpeace; pitbulls
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Another rare account of a fatal pit bull attack...

Happened this morning.

1 posted on 10/02/2007 3:49:18 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

You scour the net for these stories, don’t you? Why?


2 posted on 10/02/2007 3:51:28 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: Drew68

Dogs Of Peace ping.


3 posted on 10/02/2007 3:51:41 PM PDT by null and void (<---- Awake and filled with a terrible resolve...)
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To: Drew68

Dog of Peace (DOP) Alert!


4 posted on 10/02/2007 3:52:04 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (No Third Term For Bill Clinton!)
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To: Drew68
A family friend rushed over and shot one of the dogs. Both dogs ran away.

He'd been waking up every day stroking his pistol looking out the window at the dogs and saying to himself, "go ahead, make my day."

5 posted on 10/02/2007 3:53:51 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The only good Mullah is a dead Mullah. The only good Mosque is the one that used to be there.)
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To: Drew68

Misunderstood Dog of Peace ping.

Gotta go buy pop corn.


6 posted on 10/02/2007 3:54:47 PM PDT by Racehorse (Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
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To: Drew68
One of the troubling aspects of these stories is that these pit bulls will attack people for unknown reasons.

Why would taking out the garbage set these dogs off?

7 posted on 10/02/2007 3:55:35 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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Deputies trapped one of the dogs right away and killed it. The second dog ran loose in the neighborhood for at least an hour before deputies caught it and killed it.

The solution seems so simple for bad dogs. Too bad they don't apply that same logic to humans who kill senselessly.

8 posted on 10/02/2007 3:56:15 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (No Third Term For Bill Clinton!)
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To: Racehorse

There are always some “interesting” responses to this type of story.


9 posted on 10/02/2007 3:56:34 PM PDT by isrul (Lamentations 5:2)
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To: Drew68

“Authorities say the dogs have never attacked people before”

Once was enough........


10 posted on 10/02/2007 3:57:55 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: LdSentinal

You would have to be inside their dog-brain to know. I don’t think it’s any reason that would make sense to the owner of a ordinary dog owner.


11 posted on 10/02/2007 3:59:00 PM PDT by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: Dysart

You don’t have to scour far. The CDC and the AVMA report lethal dog attacks by breed and Pits have worked hard to capture the #1 ranking which they have held for well over a decade thanks to increasing numbers. I live just outside a small town where the owner’s 3 YO girl was killed by the kindly family Pit.

Does anybody know the names of the dogs? I noticed the article did not mention names — they must have been juvenile Pits.


12 posted on 10/02/2007 3:59:34 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot
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To: Dysart
You scour the net for these stories, don’t you? Why?

If memory serves me right, this is the first PB article I've posted. I've posted to other articles.

Truth be told, I'm sitting here bored at work in Jacksonville where it is raining like Noah's Flood outside. I clicked on FCN to see how long this weather is going to continue and the PB attack was the leading story. I figured it has been a couple of days since we last had PB attack thread so the forum was due.

13 posted on 10/02/2007 3:59:35 PM PDT by Drew68
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Zillionth pit bull attack this year, it seems.

Look, I've known one or two people who have very nice pit bulls, but let's be honest: Those dogs are retarded. Sure, I've been around docile pit bulls, but they were retarded docile pit bulls.

Why don't we continually read about a flurry of German Shepherd attacks, or evil Collie attacks? Those dogs have shown they're capable of killing, but it always seems to be that pit bulls are the ones that kill people in significant numbers.

Couldn't be a media conspiracy against the Dogs Of Peace, I don't think...

14 posted on 10/02/2007 4:09:29 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Drew68

I apologize. I think I mistook you for someone else. I do recall encountering you on a these threads but you’re not the serial PB poster(not that there’s anything wrong with that).


15 posted on 10/02/2007 4:10:31 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: Drew68

I have been told, repeatedly, that attacks like this are rare.

At least the dog didn’t kill an innocent.


16 posted on 10/02/2007 4:10:45 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: Drew68; Dysart

Just as an aside, some of Vick’s pits are said to be OK for adoption...


17 posted on 10/02/2007 4:10:55 PM PDT by null and void (<---- Awake and filled with a terrible resolve...)
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To: Drew68

The scary thing about pit bulls is that they can, apparently, seem like great pets for years and then suddenly snap.

Guy at the corner has combination of pit bull and baby.

Bad combination.


18 posted on 10/02/2007 4:12:30 PM PDT by altura
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but.....they never killed anyone before today!

My neighbor’s part pit bull went after my two youngest the other day. Luckily, I stepped in between and he turned tail. I had words with my neighbor and he kept saying aver and over, “he wouldn’t bite anyone, He plays with my grandchildren every day?’ I asked for his email and sent him two dozen accounts of pit bull dog owners who made variations of that same statement after their dogs killed or mauled a neighbor. I included pictures where available. To his credit, he got rid of the dog. At least I haven’t seen him in over a month.


19 posted on 10/02/2007 4:13:12 PM PDT by metalcor
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To: The KG9 Kid
Couldn't be a media conspiracy against the Dogs Of Peace, I don't think...

Oh, there's plenty of people here who truly believe that there are hundreds of fatal dog attacks every year that are being suppressed by the media because the dogs aren't pit bulls.

So yeah, it must be a conspiracy!

20 posted on 10/02/2007 4:14:13 PM PDT by Drew68
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