Posted on 04/10/2009 11:54:09 AM PDT by Chet 99
Video shows Fort Collins woman, dog hurt in attack by pit bulls
Really?
Baby Girl Killed by Family Dog
Monday, October 9, 2000
A 6-week-old girl died Saturday night after she was mauled by the family’s dog, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The attack occurred in the girl’s home in the 15500 block of Fellowship Street in Valinda, an unincorporated area between La Puente and West Covina, Deputy Cruz Solis said.
An uncle baby-sitting the newborn left the child on a bed unattended while he went to the kitchen to prepare a bottle for her, Solis said. When he returned, he found the family’s Pomeranian dog on the bed attacking the baby, Solis said.
The man freed the child from the dog and called for help. The baby died shortly after at Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina, according to Solis.
The parents of the child, whose name has been withheld by officials, were in the Philippines, Solis said.
Md. Infant Critical After Mauling by Family Dachshund
By Colleen Jenkins
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 17, 2002
A 6-week-old St. Mary’s County boy was in critical condition yesterday after being dragged from his playpen and mauled by the family’s dachshund, police said.
The infant was sleeping in a downstairs bedroom Sunday morning when his mother, Andrea Meyers, heard cries coming from a baby monitor, according to a report from the criminal investigations unit of the Maryland State Police. When Meyers reached the bedroom, she found the dog attacking the boy, police said.
The dog had chewed a hole through the mesh of the playpen and pulled the baby from it, the report states, before biting his legs and feet. When police arrived at the St. Mary’s City home, the baby was alert but had numerous lacerations on his lower body, a detective sergeant said.
Although state police identified the mother, Cpl. Roger Redmond refused to provide the name of the child because he was a juvenile. Redmond said police were continuing their investigation.
No one answered the telephone at the family home yesterday.
The child was flown to Children’s Hospital in Washington, where he was reported in critical condition last evening, hospital spokeswoman Ashley Wolfington said.
Police said the incident was unlike any they could remember in St. Mary’s County, particularly with such a diminutive dog. Dachshunds have short legs and long bodies. Even the biggest of the breed weigh only 16 to 32 pounds, according to the Dachshund Club of America.
They aren’t typically aggressive, yet preparation is required to familiarize a dog with a new child, said Andra O’Connell, secretary of the New York-based club.
Otherwise, the animal — which comes from a hunting breed — feels like an overlooked older child, she said.
“The dachshund is so incredibly tuned to being a family dog,” O’Connell said yesterday. “They are very loyal to their family and owners. They don’t want to be left out, and for that reason, they will get upset. But attack, no. That’s not normal.”
St. Mary’s County animal control officers removed the dog from the Meyers home after the attack.
2000? 2002? LOL.
Jack rabbits attack walkers in Sonoma County; man bitten, woman forced to evade jack rabbit
Published 8:10 p.m. PST Friday, March 29, 2002
SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) - Sonoma County musician Doug Bowes will remember this Easter season as the one where he happened upon the Easter Bunny, and it attacked him.
Bowes was walking near his home at about 11 a.m. Wednesday when the attack occurred. A small, gray jack rabbit bounded toward him from a nearby fence.
“I thought, ‘Gosh, this is somebody’s pet,’ “ Bowes said. He put his hand down in a friendly gesture and the bunny lunged and bit him.
Bowes began to walk home, nursing a sore hand with broken skin, but the rabbit followed him. A short time later, a nearby neighbor had to retreat up a hill after another aggressive jack rabbit forced her back.
Bowes had to get rabies shots and faces five additional vaccinations, though area health officials say it would be rare if the animal had rabies.
“If it were (rabid) it would make history,” said David Yong, director of laboratory services for the county public health division. No rabbit has tested positive for rabies in Sonoma County in the past 16 years, Yang said.
Since you’re rather blind regarding your particular obsession, the *point* I am making is that ALL animals are ANIMALS.
ALL dogs are basically watered down wolves.
Rottweilers account for nearly as many fatal attacks as “pit bulls”.
Why are you not alerting us to every Rottweiler attack?
Other than a handful of Pit haters, most people are weary of your phobia.
Bad things happen all the time.
People get bitten by and/or killed by many different animals on a daily basis all over this planet.
German Shepherds [now who could *possibly* hate Rin Tin Tin?] are #3 on the list, with Chows coming close behind.
Start posting those sensational stories, too.
What?
You can’t because they don’t get all the bad press that pit bulls get?
Either post dog attack stories with -complete-, impartial honesty or give over with the pit bull phobia.
Your posts are tinged with an irrational horror of a particular breed.
For crying out loud, I’m a *girl* and the breed doesn’t terrify me like it apparently does you.
“2000? 2002? LOL.”
I had no idea that the year it occurred made the children any less DEAD.
If I have absolutely nothing better to do, I’ll try and find something a bit more contemporary, therefore more in tune with your agenda.
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m living in dread of the day Bambi comes for his revenge.....
Deer Attacks Puzzle Wildlife Officials
In California, Bucks Attacking People and Pets
By AMANDA ONION
Nov. 1, 2005
A rash of attacks by male deer has prompted California wildlife officials to warn people to try and keep their distance from the wild animals.
The attacks, two against people and three against neighborhood pets, are most likely fluke incidents, officials say. However, the gorings could also be a sign that as residential areas expand, wild deer are becoming more accustomed to people and less fearful of them.
“What happens is these animals get more comfortable around people and people start to think of them like Bambi and often don’t realize they can be dangerous,” said Steve Martarano of the California Department of Fish and Game.
The male deer that attacked Ron Dudek, 73, on Sept. 25 as he was picking tomatoes in his garden was likely caught by surprise, says Martarano. The 6-foot-tall buck charged out of a patch of shrubbery and gored Dudek in the face before running off. Dudek was rushed to the hospital where he received 220 stitches for the wounds. Three weeks later he died from a pulmonary blood clot resulting from the encounter.
In another attack further north in the state, a couple in Covelo were attacked while watering a friend’s vegetable garden. Martarano says the woman was gored in the arm after the animal had pinned the man to the ground with its antlers. When the woman tried to scare off the animal with a piece of plywood, she was gored in the arm. The man was shaken, but not hurt.
And in Orinda, male deer have attacked neighborhood dogs, killing one and seriously wounding another.
“We’ve never had any problems with our many local deer before,” said Dee Pearce, whose 10-year-old dog Kermit, an afghan-golden mix, was killed by a buck that gored the dog in the head. “This seems to be an odd year around here.”
Pearce says her dog did not bark before or during the encounter with the deer. And three hours after the deer gored her dog, it gored another dog, an elderly black Labrador retriever that lives across the street from Pearce. That dog survived. Later, the buck faced off with a third dog in the neighborhood, a Jack Russell terrier.
“I saw the buck put its head down like he was about to attack him,” said Louis Pimentel, owner of the terrier, Willie. “So I put my camera down and took my dog inside.”
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