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Guide dog owner’s pit bull terror
Express Star (UK) ^

Posted on 12/10/2007 12:34:33 PM PST by bshomoic

Guide dog owner’s pit bull terror

A blind man today told how he, his teenage son and his guide dog were attacked by an unleashed pit bull in the centre of Wolverhampton.

Kevin Lloyd was on his way home from work when the dog set upon his four-and-a-half-year-old dog Watson, which was pinned down and left with deep bite marks to his head and eyes. Mr Lloyd, 43, said he and Watson were rescued by staff from a bank as the pit bull’s owner looked on from a bus stop.

“I can’t believe the owner had a dog like this loose,” the Birmingham Midshires worker said. “If it had been a smaller dog, or even a child, it would have been torn to pieces. I was walking through the city centre with my 19-year-old son Jonathon when the pit bull went straight for Watson.

“We tried to drag it off him but it just kept on coming back and pinning him down. It was a really volatile and violent dog.

“The owner was in a bus stop drinking beer with his mates. Staff from the Royal Bank of Scotland came to help us.”

The attack happened in Princes Street at 1pm on Friday. Mr Lloyd, of Kent Road, Wednesbury, said: “The dog bit Jonathon on the arm but luckily it didn’t get through his winter coat. He later said it was the scariest thing that had ever happened to him.

“Traumas like this can really affect guide dogs and even end their careers. Luckily, Watson’s injuries were superficial but he was shaken by the whole thing. We are now looking after him at home.”

Mr Lloyd’s MP, Tom Watson, said today said he was “shocked and horrified” to hear of the attack and called for immediate action to find the dog involved.

“Mr Lloyd’s dog had teeth marks and cuts around his face,” the West Bromwich East MP said. “It is a shocking thing to happen to someone in a shopping area, and there should be a full inquiry.”


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To: SIDENET

Innocent? Not in this court of law bub.


21 posted on 12/10/2007 1:33:49 PM PST by tupac (The Crux of the Biscuit - is the Apostrophe....)
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To: tupac
Please 'splain.

I don't quite follow.

22 posted on 12/10/2007 1:34:56 PM PST by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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To: bshomoic

The Dog owner should be executed, I am not kidding. This is true for all such dog owners.


23 posted on 12/10/2007 1:36:14 PM PST by Scythian
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To: tupac

Judge, Jury, and Executioner my friend. I’m the Dog Whisperer and I just whispered Die Pitbull! Die!


24 posted on 12/10/2007 1:50:31 PM PST by tupac (The Crux of the Biscuit - is the Apostrophe....)
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To: bshomoic

If I throw a tennis ball and my Golden Retriever brings it back to me, it’s because it’s in his nature to fetch tennis balls. I’m sure any Pit Bull owner would agree with that. Why is it any different when a Pit Bull attacks another dog?


25 posted on 12/10/2007 2:19:15 PM PST by T.Smith
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To: SIDENET

This thread has really brought out the FR degeneratives.


26 posted on 12/10/2007 4:18:32 PM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what an Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: doc30

You can say that again.


27 posted on 12/10/2007 4:22:41 PM PST by SIDENET (Hubba Hubba...)
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To: doc30

This thread has really brought out the FR degenerate pit bull lovers.


28 posted on 12/10/2007 10:14:30 PM PST by Jeff Chandler ("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
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To: Badeye

Cue the idiot pit bull lovers.


29 posted on 12/10/2007 10:14:53 PM PST by Jeff Chandler ("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Cue the ignorant posters about a breed of dog sorely misrepresented by the MSM, and some rather ignorant posters.


30 posted on 12/11/2007 6:01:06 AM PST by Badeye (Free Willie!)
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To: Badeye

Poor, misunderstood Dog of Peace. Boo hoo.


31 posted on 12/11/2007 8:08:41 AM PST by Jeff Chandler ("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Keep drinking the koolaide the MSM offers you.


32 posted on 12/11/2007 8:25:53 AM PST by Badeye (Free Willie!)
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To: Badeye

MSM pit bull koolaid, LOL!


33 posted on 12/11/2007 9:48:11 AM PST by Jeff Chandler ("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
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To: Jeff Chandler

The fact you think its ‘funny’ is telling.

Kool aid drinkers never understand the concept, as you just displayed conclusively.

Ask a vet about pit bulls. You’ll learn something, and you won’t look as foolish on threads like this one.


34 posted on 12/11/2007 9:53:15 AM PST by Badeye (Free Willie!)
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To: Badeye
Pit bulls aren't so tough...

It's those pugs you have watch out for. Especially in packs.


35 posted on 12/11/2007 10:55:10 AM PST by Jeff Chandler ("Liberals want to save the world for the children they aren't having." -Mark Steyn)
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To: Jeff Chandler

(chuckle)


36 posted on 12/11/2007 11:01:51 AM PST by Badeye (Free Willie!)
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