Posted on 04/11/2010 6:06:39 PM PDT by Chet 99
Memphis Girl Mauled by Pit Bull: Family Wants Dog Euthanized
Reported by: Kevin Holmes Email: kholmes@myeyewitnessnews.com Last Update: 7:58 pm
SHELBY COUNTY, TN – A Memphis child was mauled by a pit bull while inviting her friends to her birthday party. The 8-year-old girl is recovering at Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center, as authorities decide what should happen to the dog that attacked her.
Shelby County Sheriff’s Deputies say the dog was chained to a tree in a front yard on Northdale Drive when it got loose.
Hailey King has undergone several surgeries to repair her hands, face, legs and shoulder. Late Saturday, April 10, 2010, she was unable to move one arm and her mother Eileen says she can barely move the other one.
Kim Shreve managed to help free Hailey from the dog.
“When I looked down in the cove," Shreve tells myEyewitnessNews.com, "there was a little girl and she was balled up in the fetal position and a large brown pit bull was on top of her and mauling her. She was covered in blood.”
After this attack, Eileen King wants the pit bull to be euthanized, but there’s a chance that won’t happen. Right now the one-year-old pit bull is under observation at the Memphis Animal Shelter.
If Shelby County Health officials consider the dog not to be vicious, it will be returned to its' owner. And that's an option that angers both Shreve and King.
“It’s not like you can tap the dog on the hands and tell it not to do it again," says Shreve. "The dog drew blood."
King agrees. “This is vicious," she says, "and that dog needs to be put to sleep.”
The dog’s owner, LeToya Redwing was cited for having a loose dog. The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office says this incident is still under investigation. Additional charges could follow.
Hitting below the belt are we ;-{)
-A Pit Bull’s Point of View
“Now that the testicles have been ripped off a 6-month-old-baby in Murietta, I suppose it will be even harder to convince people that my two pit bulls aren’t dangerous.
I adopted Gus (formerly known as Lavidicus) two weeks ago. He and my other three dogs have brought me great joy at a time of great sorrow—my dad is wasting away due to cancer. He starts chemo next week.
I didn’t decide that I wanted to be a pit bull owner to be cool—I liked what I saw in both Gus and Nancy while temperament testing them at the county animal shelter in Carlsbad.
Gus had a hard time finding a home—his bloodshot eyes and flakey skin due to stress told me he had “had it” with shelter life. And as a person who is dog savvy, I knew he’d make someone a great, great pet. Luckily, that someone is me.
He was perfectly willing to follow me everywhere which suggests he had no prblem looking at me as his leader. When I didn’t like what he was doing, I could easily call him off. And he didn’t give a rat’s ass when an old, crotchety dog got in his face and barked which was a good sign because I have an old, crotchety dog myself.
Gus is “alpha” and scientists have found that alpha dogs are unflappable due to a high level of Serotonin—an ingredient found in psychiatric drugs. You could drop Gus fron an airplane and it wouldn’t faze him. I trust him around kids (although no child should be left alone with a pet) and because I know enough about dogs to avoid the pit falls (excuse the pun) I don’t run the risk of endangering other people’s lives and animals with my pets.
Studies have shown that the quick, spontaneous movements and high-pitched voices of small children can trigger attacks in ordinary household dogs. Pit bulls tend to be high in prey drive so they are especially vulnerable to mistaking a human baby as a squirrel, rabbit, cat or other types of prey.
Monday’s attack in Murrieta doesn’t suggest in itself that the two pit bulls (who have been euthanized) were aggrssive to people or dogs—their behavior simply suggests that the testastrone they smelled in the little boy triggered something in them—possibly they were unneutered males. Unneutered dogs tend to have issues with other males.
The first rule of dog training is, “it’s always the owners fault.” The two woman who were naive enough to leave a baby on the floor with two “nice” pit bulls, were ignorant of dog behavior and should be charged with child neglect.
People are the cause of these tragedies and not the dogs. Seventy percent of all dogs in America’s shelters are pit bulls and pit bull mixes (which suggests there are at least as many out in public) and yet we hear about relatively few pit bull attacks.
As a rule, pit bulls are a strong, dominant breed that are better left in the hands of experienced dog owners. For some reason, everyone who has ever owned a dog considers himself a dog expert. If this were the case, owners would know everything their dogs are thinking and would have complete control over them. This is rarely the case.
Studying behavior, applying the principles effectively and observing the dogs in your pack for years makes an experienced dog owner. The number of pit bull attacks, when compared to the number of dogs being sent to the euthanasia table out of owner ignorance, leads me to believe they are much more the victims of us than we are of them.”
liberal
liberalism is a mental disease. Quickly find help.
being afraid of a dog shows your color.
LOL! You are looking more ridiculous by the minute.
really? you are afraid of a dog breed. I can’t comprehend your mentality.
I thought the sarcasm was thick enough to not need the /s. Sorry for the confusion.
Like I said, I don’t understand the mentality of banning something in a free country because some people are scared of whatever the de jour cause.
MURRIETA, Calif.—A mother whose 6-month-old son was mauled by dogs after she left him alone in a carrier on the floor may lose custody of the boy, after two other children were taken away from her in 2008, authorities said. San Diego County Child Protective Services obtained a court order to take the baby away from Carrie McKinney of Point Loma, said Murrieta police Sgt. Jim Ganley.
thanks :)
I don’t remember ever using the word banned.
that is chet99’s goal... except he thinks they all should be shot in the head.
Time for LOVE MY PITBULL Movie from youtube because they are great dogs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIASWv9GYC8
Get the metal version and a good can of pepper spray...
Doggie gets the bat, owner gets the spray
I think cowardliness is having a duty to do something and not doing it out of fear.
So the word may not be appropriate here,
(unless you assume it’s each citizen’s duty to promote a free and responsible society)
but what do you call someone who wants to exterminate a whole class
based on the behavior of a relatively small number of its members?
The dogs can be highly aggressive which is bad enough but they are extremely strong with some capable of pulling 4-5 tons of weight on a rail. And while there are common myths about them having lock jaws that are not true, their muscular necks and larger head size enable them to put a hurting on someone when they bite.
I carry a long Maglite on my walks; Less obvious than a bat, and probably more effective. You can buy crenulated heads for them.
Der, crenellated.
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