Posted on 04/14/2010 5:14:21 PM PDT by Chet 99
9-Year Old Badly Hurt In Pit Bull Attack By Michael George SHEBOYGAN- 9-year old A.J. Sterling is recovering at home after being attacked by a pit bull. His injuries are severe, and his parents are angry with the dog’s owners.
Witness Connor Lieser tells TODAY’S TMJ4 the attack appeared to be unprovoked, as the boy was reaching down to pet the dog.
Maria Ramirez and Afero Sterling, parents of A.J., just watched him go through plastic surgery. He was bitten on the face by the pit bull just one block from his home in Sheboygan.
“I wouldn’t want any child to go through that, let alone any person. It’s just really hard,” said Ramirez.
Police say the dog was being walked by a 12-year old girl on the sidewalk. A.J.’s parents say their son told them he was talking to the girl when the dog started growling. A.J. says he was backing away.
“That’s when the dog lunged at him. He said it bit him in the face, drug him across the ground, and that’s when it ripped his cheek off,” said Afero Sterling.
The gruesome injury described by Afero is confirmed by witness and police accounts.
Police will be checking whether the dog has a history of violence or has rabies. For now, the dog is on quarantine at the owner’s home. A.J.’s parents say they were told the dog was originally rescued from an abusive or neglectful background. They say the dog’s current owners are to blame for the attack.
“That dog needs to be put to sleep. To have a 12-year old girl walk around a pit bull with a history of abuse and neglect and violence, it’s just absurd to me,” said Maria Ramirez.
A.J. is now out of the hospital and recovering at home, but he will likely need more plastic surgery in 6 months. Police are still investigating to determine whether any charges will be filed against the owner or whether the dog will be surrendered or put down.
You honestly think anybody here would get off their asses long enough [let alone travel] to even bother sneering at you?
Either you flatter yourself or you *are* paranoid.
I gave you your legal out; the Final Solution to your “problem”.
Either avail yourself of the applicable laws in place and your legal rights or stop whining about it.
[unless, of course, none of the dogs have ever attacked you/your dog/your family...in which case, you would be guilty of arbitrarily murdering someone else’s dog]
For a very long time I have offered you valid, legal recourse and solutions to your “problem”, for which you have thanked me yet you continue to complain.
*Something* is not adding up correctly, in this equation.
Maybe it’s not really a bear at all. Maybe he’s hunting ~something else~.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-fk6943GcI
The granddaddy will never forgive himself for what the dog did...he also needs prayers..along with the parents....and the baby....
I thought maybe [for some perverse reason] he aims straight through their arse.
I meant to ask you earlier. Did I understand correctly that you are pouring bleach and ammonia on your lawn?
“All your bear are belong to us”
..... and all your Hippo are next to be not yours also.
You have ALL my prayers from here!!!
I am so sorry to hear this,,,
GOD Bless you and yours!,,,
I pray that little one will be OK!!!
Somebody please start a prayer thread!!!!!!!!!!...
Which beggars the question....*why* were you so quickly able to find and post that?
[you worry me, sometimes]....:)
Shaddup, Yoda.
The one that got into the coop killed and ate one, licked it clean to the bone only the head was gone but it was just bone and still intact..also had an egg inside the skeleton. It then went on to kill the rest and we couldn't find any bodies...The old coop had a false ceiling with a large hole leading up to an "attic". When we looked up there, we found all the dead ones in a pile...I guess he was going to come back for another meal...we found where he got in and fixed it. The ones still alive were in the coop chewed up..Coon will kill just for the pleasure...found a wild rabbit head once behind the garage and the body over by the barn...they kill by decapitating...and carry rabies. totally worthy to be shot or drowned if a pond is available...hate them with a passion...
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Actually, at the moment I’m a bit slow.
really good PBJ sammich.
Here’s a little article about the hazards of mixing bleach and ammonia -
http://firstaid.about.com/od/poisons/f/08_Bleach_Ammon.htm
(I’m mainly worried for your little doggie.)
Weasels start out just looking for food....then the they go berserk or something.
They slit the throats of all my gramma’s beloved Aracunas one night.
Didn’t eat them.
Just murdered them.
Blood frenzy or “kicks”, I dunno.
I have no use for coons since the idiot on the hill fed 2 dozen feral cats a whole bag of cat food every night and drew coons, foxes, skunks and bears around the area.
He gave us a nice rabies epidemic.
2 were shot in my yard and a 3rd was just about to slide under the front gate when dad nailed him.
Several more were killed within a quarter mile radius....in just a matter of a month or two.
The drunk kept blaming *us* for his cats going missing but I frequently saw them lying dead when riding my Polaris up in the woods, their mouths covered in froth.
For 2 years, I had to reconnoiter my back yard after dark just to make sure nothing rabid was out there when the dogs had to go pee.
Walking around a dark woods in my jammies carrying a .44 and a flash light is not my idea of a fun time.
Finally, the SPCA got sick of it and hauled “his” cats [which he fed and sheltered but took no vaccination responsibility for] away.
They were all euthanized because nobody wanted to risk adopting an asymptomatic rabid kitten to some little kid.
Prior to the rabies epidemic, I’d frequently stop to help car-struck ones.
No more.
The only problem with Cesar Milan is that everyone thinks they are him and could be as good a pack leader of pits as he is...The professional always makes it look easy...I have also seen him break up a fight between 2 pits on 2 different shows....you should try it sometime if you have the balls and attitude for it..no one on this site can even come close to being him, they just think they can...
Just drink the Aunt Jemima and get it over with.
:::rolls eyes:::
Florida.... 7 day old baby boy dies from dog attack..... 50 puncture wounds found on the baby...... while 16 yr.old mother sleeps next to him. Toxicology tests being done on mother to determine why she did not wake up. Father 20 and not hoome at the time.
Something is very shaddy about this. The bed was covered with blood as well. How do you sleep through that?
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