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
You may want to check in with your buddy, Michael Vick.
>And if they occasionally get it wrong, sorry no bounty plus the owner sues them for the illegal killing of his pet Shar Pei.<
Shar Pei’s are China’s dog fighters. Pit bulls, if you will. Why do you think they have all those wrinkles? It’s so the other dog can’t get a good hold, and the Shar Pei can turn in its skin to strike back.
They should be banned. /sarc
Does that mean you’re out to lunch?
Dog attack deaths and maimings, U.S. & Canada
September 1982 to November 13, 2006
Pit bull terrier 608
Sharpei 4
http://www.dogbitelaw.com/Dog%20Attacks%201982%20to%202006%20Clifton.pdf
Your strawman failed.
Now, find ONE example where a purebred, AKC registered Staffordshire Bull Terrier or Bull Terrier (the Spuds MacKenzie dog) killed someone in the United states. Then, give a logical reason why they are lumped in with “pit bulls”. Human stupidity doesn’t count.
Not a “pit bull”. That’s a type, not a breed.
BTW, the first breed I mentioned weighs a whopping 30 pounds. Its nickname is The Nanny Dog.
“Typical gang banger mentality”
Typical stupidity. My dogs, when I have dogs, are inside the house with me, unless walking ON A LEASH, or outside in the backyard of my home with me watching them.The exception is when I am out in the fields HUNTING with them.Weimaraners are bird dogs.
If some clown is lobbing bullets at them, they are also firing on me, personally. What else could you call it? Do you ordinarily tolerate people shooting at you or your property?
“Um, Mr Inviso owns weimaraners.
Um, he was opposing pit restrictions”
Um, no, I was opposing someone’s little vigilante fantasy of what they want to be pit restrictions, to the point of being able to shoot other peoples’ dogs on sight. Someone wants a pretty well unrestricted hunting license for dogs that aren’t theirs, to be able to shoot what THEY THINK, WITHOUT ANY TRAINING, AND WITH PROBABLY DARN LITTLE KNOWLEDGE, is a pit. Someone, like you, who judges based on very little info, (like your dumb crack about gang-banger mentality) and wants to be judge, jury, and executioner. Ever heard of a little thing called “due process”? It’s supposed to be required before you deprive people of life, liberty, or property. That means (in this case)you have someone who knows what they are doing, decide what is and isn’t a pit, THEN anything that is legally required is done properly, instead of firing upon, let’s say, a dog in a backyard that ISN’T YOURS.
“You didn’t answer my question.
I’ll answer it again.
Someone who starts a gunfight in a residential neighborhood over a pit bull should be arrested. If he kills someone he should be charged with murder”
The person starting THIS particular gunfight, is the guy firing on the dog, since a dog I own would be in MY yard or home. I don’t know where you live, but I don’t let my animals just roam the streets. Someone who fires into other people’s back yards and homes is a hazard not only to the dogs, but to the people who live there.
Oh, yeah. That's a great defense. If you want to get convicted.
The link provides hundreds of maiming and killing by pit bulls. Are you suggesting that it should only be legal to own purebred AKC registered animals?
You're amending your original assertion. If one of your pits is off the leash mauling a neighborhood child do you get to shoot the parent that kills it?
Yes. That's where a pit bull owner has to go to the police instead of shooting people.
Did you ever think about reading the article the thread is discussing?
"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."
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