Posted on 09/20/2009 6:14:00 PM PDT by Chet 99
ST. PETERSBURG — Four years ago, Robert Jacks and his wife, Patricia Thiel, rescued a stray dog.
The Labrador-pit bullterrier mix was about 2 years old and had wandered onto the golf course where Jacks works. It was afraid of people. They couple figured it had been abused.
The two dog lovers named it Jake and worked to rehabilitate it. It became part of the family and often would sleep on the couple's bed.
But on Thursday afternoon, something went wrong.
Authorities say Jake fiercely attacked Thiel, a 39-year-old nurse at All Children's Hospital, shortly after 2 p.m., in their fenced-in back yard in Lakewood Estates.
A neighbor coming to Thiel's aid shot and killed the 100-pound dog.
When it was over, Thiel was in critical condition with wounds to her arms, head and neck. Doctors were in surgery late Thursday night working to save her right arm.
Her husband, the golf course superintendent at the St. Petersburg Country Club, spent the night at Tampa General Hospital, trying to fathom why Jake had turned on his wife.
"He was a sweet dog. We don't know what happened," the 43-year-old said. "I'm in shock. It's sad all the way around."
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Aw, a baby dobie!
I’ve never drank it.
[what is it? a beer? liquor?]
That’s my little man....:)
It’s everything wrong with the world, in a liquor bottle. Bleagh.
Sounds delightful....:))
The Merritt-Clifton study has been dismissed by many experts as being biased and unreliable. The CDC study is a much better one to go by, although they do admit that it is faulty also. Their reasons were because the source information came from media reports, which are notorious for over-reporting on dogs whose breed is considered controversial, misidentifying breeds, and omitting important details about the history of the dog.
Dogbitelaw and Dogsbite.org are not considered reliable because they both carry a bias. Also, one is run by a lawyer, and the other by a web designer who was known as “bitbypit” a full year before she was allegedly attacked. Some things to keep in mind.
I have owned several pits and they are a great breed of dog.
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Oh yea, great dogs. Thank God they are banned in Miami. They should all be shot.
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