Posted on 10/17/2008 11:56:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Thursday morning pit bull attack has left two Palmdale residents with arm and leg injuries and sent their 12-year-old dog Sugar to an animal hospital in very critical condition.
As he walked his dog about 9:30 a.m., 75-year-old Ron Levin said the pit bull jumped the fence at their home and ran over to his dog.
"I saw the pit bull coming and I tried to drag myself and the dog back in the house, but it was too late," Levin said. "It got hold of her (Sugar) and wouldn't let go. It just kept biting and biting. I kicked it, I hit the pit bull, and then it dragged my dog to the sidewalk."
Jody Levin, Levin's 74-year-old wife, said she saw the pit bull drag her dog across the driveway, with her husband still holding the leash.
"It was horrible, I heard him scream at the top of his lungs and saw him fall to the ground," Jody Levin said. "I thought he had a heart attack right then and there."
Ron Levin, who wound up being bitten on the left elbow during the struggle, said his wife came out and started hitting the pit bull.
"I tried to push it and hit it in the head, but god, it just wouldn't let go," said Jody Levin, who also was injured in the fray with a bruise to a leg. "And my poor baby (the dog), it was such a bloody mess. Her scalp was completely open, her eyes were ripped out. I have never seen so much blood."
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Well, he’s scared of our cat...to the point of hiding behind the furniture and crying. My DH and I have always had shelties...great little dogs...we had one go off just like you described the pit can do. He does live in a yard with a 5 foot fence, they are very careful with him, but he is a very good dog.
I’d look at the cats in that pit’s life, too. We had a ginger tabby when I was growing up who’d put any neighboring dog into their place. Our female husky mix loved but RESPECTED him, as when play got too rough..*thwap*.
Then again, I’ve seen a tiny calico momma cat who had a tame wolf “beaten into submission”....I’d see the wolf sprawled out with this waif of a cat curled up on her side, snoozing.
There is a fine social equation here. The hours of pleasure that Pit Bulls give their owners during those brief periods when the owners are being held for trial or are not incarcerated are certainly worth, on balance, the miniscule* harm these attractive pets do to children, the elderly, mail carriers, law enforcement officials, random joggers, and the occasional unwary and provocative small pet owner.
I have already written Barack Hussein Obama to draft legislation demanding that faithful companion Pit Bulls be allowed to share their owners' cells, regardless of race, creed, or color. In fact, my judgmental friend, our government, through the WICC Program, already subsidizes the care and feeding of these magnificent animals. I ask you, can a government-subsidized pet, especially those living in public housing, be all bad?
and I don't give a fig about what those dirty capitalist insurance companies say!
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