Posted on 04/07/2010 8:13:56 PM PDT by Chet 99
Pit bulls attack 6-month-old boy
03:44 PM PDT on Wednesday, April 7, 2010
By SARAH BURGE
Police are investigating a dog attack Saturday at a Murrieta apartment in which a 6-month-old boy was bitten in the groin, authorities said.
Animal control officials said the child lost his testicles in the attack.
Sgt. Bob Landwehr said today that police were called to a report of a dog bite shortly before 10 a.m. Saturday at an apartment complex at 26301 Arboretum Way. The mother and her friend had left the baby strapped into a portable carrier and unattended in a room with a pit bull and a pit bull mix, he said. It was not clear how long the baby had been left alone.
One or both of the dogs attacked the baby, tearing off his diaper and biting his scrotum, Landwehr said. The mother and friend came to the baby's rescue when they heard him scream.
Landwehr said the baby was taken to Rancho Springs Medical Center in Murrieta and transferred to another hospital, but he did not have an update on the child's condition.
The dogs were seized by animal control, Landwehr said.
The owner of the dogs signed a release to allow them to be euthanized, said Willa Bagwell, director of Animal Friends of the Valleys, which provides animal control services for Murrieta.
Bagwell, who spoke with the mother, confirmed that the baby's testicles were bitten off in the attack.
Landwehr said no one has been arrested in connection with the incident, but the investigation is continuing.
—Sarah Burge sburge@PE.com
That still goes on right here on Whidbey Island, right next door to the Langley Middle School at the county fairgrounds, and should be recognized by now as a form of psychological child abuse.
Elsewhere, the initiation rite is roughing up animals in amateur rodeos. Sometimes that is combined with raising a 4-H animal. Once the child no longer considers animals' pain, he or she is ready to become a livestock farmer.
Desensitizing methods vary from place to place. Within the Third World they include public rites such as animal sacrifice, still practiced in parts of Africa, India, and elsewhere, bullfighting in Spain, France, and Latin America, and beating, burning, or boiling dogs and cats to death in Korea before eating them, to name just a few of the atrocities we are familiar with.
Around the world, societies that practice animal husbandry are desensitized societies. The abuse of animals inevitably spills over into the treatment of women and children. Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, and slavery persist in in many of the very regions that Heifer Project International serves, for example, as extensions of common agricultural practice to those of our own species who are least able to protect themselves.
Merritt Clifton is to dog behavior what Phil Jones is to climatology.
Sorry it took me so long to reply...my heretofore gentle Dobermann exerted 480psi on my arm and I had to wait for hubby to arrive with the break stick and a tourniquet before I could type again.
[actually, I only wandered off and had some tuna salad for lunch but where are the sensationalistically gory frissons in *that*?]....;-D
Oh, this is *such* a gross twist but yes, dogs are attracted to baby poo.
When my sister was born, my childhood poodle would arrive at the changing table like a ranch hand to the chuck wagon.
Mom had to keep the diaper pail outside on the porch because of that.
[this was back in the pre-Huggies days]
Apparently not only dogs find the barely-digested “food” attractive.
Ignorant slobs routinely toss used disposables out their car windows on the isolated stretches of I-70 and it’s common to see dead possums, coons, foxes and skunks nearby.
[out of all the “last suppers” they could’ve picked....yuck]
I’ve had dogs and horses my whole life and the cow pasture was but a mere slither-under-the-fence away.
[feel free to let your imagination run wild with *that* scenario]....:-P
My Ibizans prefer bunny droppings.
I could just gag.
I’m chuckling. I think I am dangerously obsessed with the dangerous thief and poseur and liar Obama! grrrrrr
What source do you have stating that pit bulls are 9%? That is an interesting find.
Pit bulls are not responsible for anywhere near half the attacks each year. According to the most recent study, Labs are number one, followed closely by pit bulls, because both breeds are competing for the most popular dog spot.
Kids are the most often seriously injured because they are fragile, and because they do not have the ability to behave safely around dogs (unless they are taught at a young age and constantly supervised). Studies have shown that no matter what breed of dog is involved, as the age goes up, attack rates go down, as does the severity of the attack on average.
As for deaths, that may be correct (if you believe that every attack reported to be by a pit bull is correctly identified as such), but you are forgetting that being such a popular breed, pit bulls represent a much higher percentage of the population of medium to large breed dogs. Some estimates have their pop. at around 60% of that group.
“This is the part of their nature that is killing kids!!! “
Not according to ANY expert anywhere. Where do you get these facts?
good comparison....firecracker vs stick of dynamite and the damage each would do...
I don't care if a toy dog is just as likely to bite as a Pit Bull, one must also consider the likely consequences of each.
The CDC shows that Pit Bull dogs are responsible for about a third of dog fatalities to humans, as they are less than 10% of the American dog population; one must remark that proportionally they seem more likely to kill.
“According to the Clifton study, pit bulls, Rottweilers, Presa Canarios and their mixes are responsible for 74% of attacks that were included in the study, 68% of the attacks upon child”ren, 82% of the attacks upon adults, 65% of the deaths, and 68% of the maimings.”
You, who have ordered us to “stay on topic” just careened over the cliff[ton].
The subject is _pit bulls_; *not* “pit bulls, Rottweilers, Presa Canarios and their mixes”.
[whatever “mixes” means because most people don’t bother to tote around DNA swabs]
Posting this makes your argument ‘against us’ actually work in favor of what we keep trying to tell people.
Those “statistics” include 2 other, completely different breeds *and* “their mixes”.
No statistical conclusion about pit bulls can be fairly drawn whilst also including a hodge-podge of unknown inaccurate breed variables.
Few law authorities would have the breed knowledge to accurately identify a “pit mix” without performing DNA tests.
*Any* mixed breed dog with a “wide head” would be considered a “pit mix” by the ignorati.
A Lab mix might look like a pit mix.
*Any* Mastiff or Boxer in the woodpile, so to speak, would give a dog “that general look”.
I have dealt with the misidentification of breed mixes for years because I am involved with Ibizan rescue.
When “Bunny” got to the BOS ring at Westminster, suddenly our rescue was inundated by “Ibizan mixes” on PetFinder simply because of the “desirably exotic” factor.
Any dog with prick ears/long legs/long tail/red & white/yellow & white/pink nose/amber eyes [etc etc etc] was an “Ibizan mix”.
For years now, we have tried to educate shelter personnel on the sheer unlikelihood of having an “Ibizan mix” due to the fact of the small number of purebreds in the US, the disdain for mating “outside their own kind” and the simple fact that those who own purebreds are not inclined to allow their dogs to be mated, accidentally or otherwise to anything else but another Ibizan Hound.
Despite our efforts to educate, they still mislabel mixes.
Here are the latest batch:
Few, if any of those dogs truly resemble an Ibizan, as seen here:
http://file.walagata.com/w/the-salamander/jinn1.jpg
[we do have a few *real* Ibizans, namely Shay and Chevy available for adoption to responsible, vigilant, serious, sight hound knowledgeable people with securely FENCED YARDS, if anyone’s interested]
I’m also involved in Portuguese Podengos.
The bizarre things that show up as PPs on PetFinder rivals insanity.
Bottom line is, you cannot quote breed statistics -without- true and accurate identification of said breed.... for *any* breed.
Looking at his eyes, if he were a horse, I wouldn’t walk behind him.
/hillbilly colloquialism
Ugh...did I mention that _I just ate lunch_?!?
Gaaaaaack!
Now is ~not~ a great time to be so...so “thorough and specific”...LOL
QueasyMander
Its laughable that they try to change the subject by sounding stupid by bringing up hippos...Wonder if that ever had one living next door to them with only a wire fence between the hippo and their kids... Like pits, hippos are killers also.
Oh and when it comes to articles about pit aggression, lets change the subject and use drunk driving accidents....these people cannot chew gum and walk at the same time.
Smart people debate the subject some ridicule the messenger because they hate the message....others cannot raise a rational debate so they change the subject and make themselves look like looneys.
You had an informed and intelligent post......some defenders of this breed have neither..
You are mistaken that Chet only posts pit stories. For the last couple of months he has run many other types of stories...I have read them... :O)
*If* every pit/bully breed were totally eliminated tomorrow, the next day would merely announce another “type” to persecute.
Mark my words.
This ~is~ their far ranging plan and they have no shame in “doing it for children” until every pet [aka “enslaved animal”] is dead and gone.
If you -don’t- fight for the rights of dogs you “hate” to exist, you will eventually find yourself fighting for the rights of the dogs you -love-.
Bank on it.
[perhaps Chet may even be a pETA provocateur]
LOL!
Just don’t go biting him or MO might bite you back....;]
I drive for a living and my dog is with me most of the time.
People say,
"Guess you don't have to worry about someone breaking in to your vehicle!"
They say this because of his appearance.
He acts as a guard dog without being 'human aggressive'.
My response to these folks is,
"Yeah as long as the thief didn't bring a piece of pizza!"
Sweet, my dog qualifies as an Ibizan hound!
Now I don't have to worry about him being outlawed by some yellow-bellied busy-body with nothing better to do! *snerk*
When it comes to bunny poo, bunnies eat it themselves. Some of the nutrients they need can only be found in their droppings...My rabbit would always poo in the same place in the cage, easy access to an appetizer I guess....aren’t we all glad we are not rabbits...:O)
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