Woman Stabs Pit Bull In Home Invasion

WFMY ^

[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

[Mr Inviso]

“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.
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?”

No, I’m not amending anything. I wsa posting about that other guy that was suggesting he should be allowed to enter or shoot into someone else’s property in order to kill a pit.

I DO NOT HAVE PITS. If ANY sort of dog is mauling a neighborhood child ( assuming, of course that the ‘child’ isn’t, say, inside the owner of the dog’s house burglarizing it or something like that) it needs to be dead, right now. I don’t care what breed it is.

[Darnright]

You’re the one wanting to give Chinese pit bulls a break. Hey, you are the one that found the 4 people killed by them. I found 4 more, if you lump in the mixed breeds.

Ban Chinese Shar Peis, or we’re all doomed!

/sarc

[Mr Inviso]

“Ever heard of a little thing called “due process”?
Yes. That’s where a pit bull owner has to go to the police instead of shooting people.”

Nice attempt at snark, but it doesn’t fit. You’re missing the point of what I was saying. IF you manage to ban pits, or any other “bully breed” or whatever, you can’t have guys like that other clown becoming self-appointed executioners of the dogs, firing on them when they are in their owners’ yards, etc. It means, if you have an alleged “pit bull” that is banned, you have to take it to someone (hopefully who knows what they are doing) for proper judgement. Otherwise, you have people out there who don’t have a clue killing anything they think remotely resembles a pit.

[Mojave]

“Anyone that expended a bullet towards one of my dogs is more than likely to get several in return, post-paid.”

Nothing there about on a leash.

[Joe 6-pack]

Good link from Merritt Clifton's Study. Now do a little more homework on Merritt Clifton and see who he and his organization endorsed in the last election and which side of the political aisle they fall on. Tell me they're not agenda driven...

Oh...and...

[Mojave]

You’re the one wanting to give Chinese pit bulls a break.

I didn't say that.

[Mojave]

IF you manage to ban pits, or any other “bully breed” or whatever, you can’t have guys like that other clown becoming self-appointed executioners of the dogs, firing on them when they are in their owners’ yards, etc.

Etc? Like other people's homes? Schoolyards?

[Mojave]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2136738/posts?page=153#153

[Joe 6-pack]

Here's a little more from your leftist animal hero, Mr. Clifton...

http://www.mail-archive.com/ahimsa108@googlegroups.com/msg00176.html

Do you also agree with his anti-Palin/hunting rants and global warming pap, or do you only agree with him on pit bulls?

[Mr Inviso]

“I don’t know where you live, but I don’t let my animals just roam the streets
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.” “

I was posting to what your partner in pit bull killing, “Die Hard the Hunter” was stating as his preferred way of dealing with them, i.e. vigilantism, shooting into backyards, etc. IF someone was doing what he advocates, which is what I posted against, they are going to get shot at in return. He was claiming the same legal protection for doing so, that meter readers have for entering a yard (actually, they enter with the consent of the homeowner, by contract) to wit “Legal Purpose”. Someone shooting into MY yard with me present, is firing on ME, period. I cannot take the time to stop and ask the bullet who or what it’s aimed at. It is absolutely self-defense, and I’d doubt that any court (other than in some extremely liberal jurisdictions) would rule otherwise.

You, then, took it farther, alleging that I had a “typical gang-banger mentality” without you knowing thing #1 about me. I did say that I don’t trust the judgement of the ACO’s as to what a “pit” is or isn’t. In working with Weimaraner rescue, I’ve had them try to foist “pits” off on me as purebred Weimaraners. Some knowing, some not. I had a dog referred to me by an animal control agency here last year as a “weimaraner” that was rust-red. Sorry, they don’t come in that color. The judgement of animal control agencies in the area I cover, as to the particular breed any given dog is, is highly suspect, at best. That’s why I would prefer there be a hearing of some sort, with someone who has a clue about breeds, before we start taking peoples’ dogs, assuming we ban pits etc. If we’re going to go after the pits, we need to go after Rotts, Cane Corsos, Tosas, and so on, as ALL of these are becoming or are already popular with the gangs and dog fight crowd out there.

I read the original article, I have no problem with that dog being dead, only I wish the owner to not have incurred any loss (whether pain or otherwise) in the incident. She was entirely within her rights to do what she did.

[Mojave]

If you think the numbers are wrong, counter them.

[crickets]

[Joe 6-pack]

LOL....your reply at #153 was a

You should really be looking for a bail out.

[Mojave]

“Die Hard the Hunter” was stating as his preferred way of dealing with them, i.e. vigilantism, shooting into backyards

Quote and link.

[Mr Inviso]

“Etc? Like other people’s homes? Schoolyards?”

Like on the end of a leash, and so on. If it’s in someone else’s home ( not the dog’s owner’s home) they can do whatever. that’s a different matter entirely. In a schoolyard, that’s what the police and animal control exist for. IF it is threatening a person, I have no problem with the dog being killed, but I DONT want someone deciding that they need ( Like Die Hard was saying to do)to start shooting dogs that aren’t threatening someone.

[Mojave]

Your strawman failed.

[Mojave]

Like Die Hard was saying to do)to start shooting dogs that aren’t threatening someone.

Quote and link.

[Mr Inviso]

See post #22 this thread also #27,41,49,68.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Merritt Clifton’s study is actually a list of severe dog bites. The title itself ["Dog attack deaths and maimings"] is misleading, since the list is a compilation of "dog attacks doing bodily harm," including some that are fatal or disabling. Clifton’s only source is the press: specifically, press accounts of dog bites requiring “extensive hospitalization” [never defined, so this might include anything from treatment of sepsis to multiple surgeries] and caused by “clearly identified” animals. [“[T]his table covers only attacks by dogs of clearly identified breed type or ancestry, as designated by animal control officers or others with evident expertise, who have been kept as pets.”] The numbers aren’t organized by year or location, and readers have no way to access the original press accounts and follow-up articles. There is a disclaimer of sorts --- “dogs whose breed type may be uncertain” are excluded, as are police and security dogs and dogs trained to fight --- leading logical readers to assume that the list must include virtually all severe bites by dogs of identifiable breeds.

Clifton’s report never mentions that there is a huge discrepancy between actual hospital records and press accounts of dog attacks --- between relatively objective data, in other words, and highly subjective reporting and editing with an eye to selling papers. The report fails to acknowledge that a number of factors are involved whenever any dog bites. The report includes statements about dog behavior which have no basis in science, and statements about breed-specific traits which bear no relation to the actual history, behavior or modern development of the breed being discussed [in this case, the German shepherd]. Clifton’s concluding statements regarding the inevitability of attacks by certain dogs are impossible to substantiate, and as a result seem simply prejudiced and inflammatory."

[Mojave]

Where’s the quotes?

[Mojave]

“In the United States, pit bulls make up one to three per cent of the overall dog population and cause more than 50 per cent of serious attacks.”

http://www.dogexpert.com/Dog%20Bite%20Statistics/DogBiteStatistics.html