70-year-old must have provoked pit bull attack, dogs' co-owner tells shelter official

NJ.com ^

[Chet 99]

One of the owners of the two pit bulls shockingly is blaming the 70-year-old victim for the vicious attack she suffered Friday on a Bayonne street, a brutal assault that sent her to a hospital with critical injuries, says the manager of the shelter where the dogs are being kept.

The co-owner of the dogs, Jason Reid, showed up at the Associated Humane Society of Newark facility Saturday and told D.J. Infield, the manager and chief animal control officer, that Maria Zaldana, of Jersey City, must have provoked the dogs, Infield said today.

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Zaldano was walking to Say It With Flowers on Broadway in Bayonne, where she works, when the dogs apparently escaped from a West 34th Street yard and mauled her at 9:11 in the morning Friday.

Zaldano suffered a partially torn scalp, numerous puncture wounds and the skin was torn from the left side of her face and her right knee and calf.

[Patriot4ever]

I’m actually very skeptical of the media and know how they manipulate. There are a million example of media manipulation. It’s just a personal choice for me as to what kind of dogs to have based on a lot of anecdotal info throughout my life. The case of your mom’s lab is the first I’ve ever heard of a lab attacking for no reason. I’ve heard of the rare case where labs who have been severely abused finally attacking. I have put a dog to sleep for biting my husband (it was a really bad bite too) because I couldn’t take the chance on him ever doing that to one of my kids. I will say, and maybe I’m crazy or something, I trust my lab 100%. I still have taught my kids to respect her and not play too rough with her and all of that but as much as I’ve tried to teach them not to get in her face, they go against me and I catch them all the time kissing her all over the face. At-least half the dogs we had growing up, had I got in their faces like that, I would have lost part of my face.