Posted on 11/22/2008 5:19:40 PM PST by Chet 99
Archdale, NC -- It sounds too bizarre to be true, but a local woman fended off a four-legged intruder's attack with a butcher knife.
Nancy Verzone says a loose pit bull first went after her rat terrier in her backyard. When she snatched her dog from the pit bull's jaws, the attacking dog followed her inside.
"Here I was just stabbing just as hard as I could to get him to let go and he kept coming and coming," says Verzone, who has the bloody t-shirt to prove it. "The harder I stabbed the more he got mad," she says.
Randolph County Health Director MiMi Cooper sees the incident as a warning to keep dogs restrained. "Wake up people. You've got to take care of your dogs, you cannot let dogs run loose," says Cooper. "Dogs are predators."
Verzone says her rat terrier was injured so badly, she had her veterinarian euthanize the dog.
The pitbull's owner shot the dog in the head and buried it in his yard. Animal Control later made him dig it up so the dog could be sent to Raleigh for rabies testing. Cooper says because of the bullet wound to the pitbull's head, rabies testing came up inconclusive. Verzone is now receiving rabies vaccinations for her dog bite.
"It was the most heart wrenching thing for me to have to do that to that animal," says Verzone. "But it was either me or him."
The pit bull's owner promised to cover Verzone's rabies vaccination bill. The price tag tops $2400 dollars for a series of at least five shots. WFMY News 2
> If their next door neighbor is imprisoned for a pit bull attack, they will deny that it could happen to them. Such is the criminal nature.
Alcoholics and drug addicts have a similar tendency. It is called “Denial”.
“could not or would not shoot a pit bull. “
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Life or Death,,,
That’s what it comes down to,,,
IIRC it’s 1% of the dawgs and 65%? of the Death/Maulings!!!
Pit-type,,,(4 types banned in DeQueen,Ark.),,,
Some folks will go to war over their Kids gitin’ ET’...!
Oh my gosh that looks like a super model. Get it a sandwich and a glass of milk quick!
LOL!
Just like you laugh every time you read about a child mauled by a pit bull.
All too often.
If you really believe that to be true, you're every bit as ignorant about people as you are about dogs.
You don’t mind attributing to me things I haven’t said, but you whine when you get it returned.
Hypocritical and thin skinned.
Your attribution to me had no basis whatsoever in logic, but then again, I really had no expectation that it would. By the way, I'm still waiting for you to point out where I ever advocated anything other than personal responsibility being taken for the behavior and negligence of pet owners or any other person...still looking?
Children plural? Wow.
My aunt's Boston terrier bit me in the face when I was ten for no reason that anyone could see. He came pretty close to my right eye, but fortunately the injury was very minor. Still, by the time I came back from the doctor's office with my three stitches and my sore arm from the tetanus shot, the dog was GONE, permanently.
Oh, indeed. I got my blonde female Lab mix from a county shelter in Texas. Her paperwork had her identified as a black male German shepherd mix. When I pointed out the discrepancy to the shelter worker, I was assured that it was the correct paperwork for this particular dog.
“Yes. It will all come out in the wash everywhere, eventually. Blacklisting is another way. There’s no need to do business with trashy individuals. Too many people have had problems with them and their fickle and threatening proxies.”
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Great Point!,,,
Links/numbers/stats/etc. mean nothing to some folks,,,
All we can do is defend ourselves...
“What would you like to get rid of next?”
I vote we get rid of alcohol.
It causes tens of thousands of more deaths and disfigurements each year than all dogs combined.
There are many other drinks that are just as tasty and dont have the inherent danger of alcohol.’
There may be responsible drinkers who drink safely
just as there might be responsible dog owners that safely own their dog
but we cant afford take the chance.
For the greater good, people must not be allowed to drink alcohol.
I’m sure the dog banners here won’t mind giving up their posting juice for the greater good,
I mean this is all about saving lives and not having to live in fear.
If anyone disagrees it just exposes them as a low life,
likely compensating for a small penis and probably a criminal.
I think its an idea whose time has come.
I’m sure we can count on the media to assist us, if it bleeds it leads will work in our favor.
All we need do is post every gruesome story we can find caused by alcohol.
We can easily generate the hysteria need to pressure politicians to act.
We will cast aspersions on the character of all drinkers,
vilify them and once the ban is in place come down with the full force of THE LAW on any recalcitrants.
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
William Pitt 1781
This is just Pitt bull...Safety is necessary or there can be no freedom and only a tyranny, democratic or otherwise can ensure the safety and common good of all units of the State.It time to let go of the outdated notions of personal responsibility and accountability. People, a priori, can not be trusted to act responsibly. Only State mandated collective responsibility and the limiting of freedom can ensure the safety and greater happiness of all the State’s units.
What good is freedom? It only allows people to make mistakes. Mistakes are not good. Safety is the Prime Good, all other goods derive from Safety. Freedom, pshaw, it is so 18th century. It’s time for progressive change that puts society first and the individual a distant second.
“Wonder what’s going on lately, it seems there’s been a spate of pit bull stories posted lately. So far in this series, one good, all the rest bad.”
There were two “good” stories about “pitbulls” posted.
This set the “pitbills” haters into a frenzy of pack behavior and ever since they’ve been frantically posting negative stories, even going as far a field as South Africa to counter the challenge to their meme.
If you’ve followed these dog threads over the years you’d have seen a number of leaders of the pitbull hater pack come and go. What strikes me though is the fellows of the past, from Ambrose to sinkspur to unspun and B-Chan, had a degree of intelligence, rationality and integrity that the current bunch sorely lacks.
The latest big dog of the pack is familyop whose rabid fear and hatred combined with his love for attention produces foam-flecked rants reiterated ad nauseum. He has his sidekick that he pings, the fellow with the CAPS issue who, dutiful lap dog that he is, generates semi-coherent panting praise for the big dog. Rounding off the leadership of the pack is the minister of propaganda Chetxx who faithfully performs his agitation of the lesser dogs by subjecting them to a steady stream of attack stories. It gives some idea into the mindset of these nanny state thugs that he never posts stories about attacks by any other dog but “pitbills”. The other attacks, the other victims are not important as they are not relevant to the crusade. So when they tell you it’s because they care for the victims don’t believe it, they only care about their particular and peculiar totalitarian imperative and the rush they get from perceiving themselves on a higher moral plane than other lesser beings. They are not about responsible dog ownership, they are about attacking freedom, personal responsibilty and accountability. They are about state control of the individual uber alles.
The Constitution does not confer rights and the rights listed are not to be interpeted as denying any other God given rights. If King George had come to confiscate the Founders' dogs it would not have gone unchallenged. The relationship between Man and Dog is one of the greatest gifts our Creator has bestowed upon us. For tens of thousands of years dogs have been working and living along side of us. Owning a dog is a God given right. My dog is a gift from God to me. I appreciate the gift, accept the responsibility of ownership, care for it and cherish it. And woe to any creature, four legged or two, that comes between me and my dog.
“If we’re going to play pretend that we can shoot dogs in the city, why not have a bounty on any dog that’s running around loose?”
And don’t forget those annoying cats that are making noise all night, as well. That causes loss of sleep which can be dangerous, after all.
As far as ACO’s being able to tell a pit from other breeds?I’ve dealt with a bunch of them, being in dog rescue, and a large proportion couldn’t tell a Viszla from a Weimaraner, a Weim from a pit, etc. It doesn’t take a great deal of training to become an ACO.
Anyone that expended a bullet towards one of my dogs is more than likely to get several in return, post-paid. And I don’t even have pits. You let any dumb yay-hoo start popping rounds off at whatever dogs he deludedly thinks is a pit, you’re going to have major problems. Put a bounty on it, and it becomes worse. Lawsuits will NOT help that problem, as there are very low limits on what you can collect for the death of a family pet. The only way a law allowing knuckleheads to shoot pits would work would be one that allows owners of non-pits to beat the living daylights out of anyone who wrongly shoots a non-pit, up to and including causing the slow, painful death of the shooter for doing so. That way, if some clown shoots, say, one of the purebred Weims I had or hope to have, and I have the pedigree for the dog (chipped or tattooed like I’ve had done), having mistaken it for a pit, as some folks have done, I get to shackle his sorry backside to a post and have at him with an ASP baton or similar, till *I* am through. That would take quite some time.
Better be sure of your target, there, pal.
You're telling me. I have AKC registered Boxers, and I have people telling me all the time what lovely Pits they are. People actually try to argue with me. My male has a longer nose, and doesn't conform to breed standards perfectly. He gets mistaken for a Pit because he doesn't have a perfect Boxer head, and I guess I can understand that, but my female, who is an excellent specimen, with a classic Boxer head, gets confused with a Pit just as often, and that kind of ignorance of breeds is exactly why the idea of shooting any breed on site is simply ludicrous.
I'm a Vet Tech, and I have worked in Rescue for a long time, and I can assure you that smaller dogs are much more likely to bite than larger ones. I was bit by a Schnauzer just two weeks ago. Granted, larger dogs can do more damage, but they are far less frequently aggressive than small dogs in my experience.
> My dog is a gift from God to me. I appreciate the gift, accept the responsibility of ownership, care for it and cherish it. And woe to any creature, four legged or two, that comes between me and my dog.
I recollect how your dog Sam saved you from a brown bear attack miles into the Ontario bush a couple years back. And as a dog owner myself I echo your sentiments. You have an amazing dog, and that’s for real.
I have just gone back onto your About Page to refresh my memory of your dog — and my memory serves me correctly. Sam is not what I understand to be a “Pit Bull”. He is smaller, his head is a different shape, as are his ears. He is a better-looking dog. And while he certainly looks like he means business (all serious dogs do) he does not look to be vicious or nasty.
So it is possible that we are talking at cross-purposes — I dunno. Given your permission I would certainly pet your dog and expect to get all five of my fingers back intact.
By way of contrast, I would never ever pet a Pit Bull, except maybe with a meat ax: they are just too dangerous.
I would let your dog play with my best German Shepherd and expect them both to have a good time, find their relative place in the pecking order, and finish up with neither of us having a vet bill.
By way of contrast, I would let a Pit Bull play catch with my .303 before I let one anywhere near any of my dogs — they are not adequately socialized to be safe around other dogs or people.
“You Yanks and your firearms fantasies. The reality is that you’d probably do nothing of the sort.”
But you would?
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