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.
Fnord!
I caught that SOB Cheatin’!!!
Then we butted heads,,,
Po’Goat had to go to the Goat’Hospital!!!
Po’Goat tried that with Harley and got Shot!!!
Harley pulled his .44’s!!!,,,
BBQ goat is purdy good!!!...;0)...
I have a sincere question for you. Which breed of goat would have the best chance of survival in six or seven months of winter with temps colder than twenty below and winds commonly over 80 mph? ...looking for goats of a tougher kind to clean up some very high pasture (over 9,000 feet) with snow drifts often over four feet (eight feet one recent winter). They would have a long shed with straw litter for getting out of the wind, and that’s about it (and two layers of snow fence just to the west of the shed).
‘its been years so wefting and warfing has long since been lost to my memory”
So much so that you forgot that it’s WARP, not ‘warf’.
I never said you said it.
I said you butted in with some inane remark backing up *your* buddy.
It’s not my problem that you are incapable of maintaining a linear train of thought.
[Sorry if that was too many mutisyllabic words in a row]
Parrot.
“Who will protect you ?...”
You *really* don’t want me to answer that.
[by the by, is “hippy” the best “insult” you pitiful rookies can come up with? calling somebody something they’re not is *so* sophomoric...try harder]
Projection.
Still getting your monthly “parcels” from the VA?
Perfection!
[but the Fnord that can be known is not the true Fnord]
POPE Salamander
Thank God above you are as far from me as possible.
You sure do lack comprehension skills.
Hush Up!!!,,,
If Granny catches us eatin’up one of her goats she’ll
be comin’ after us with a Switch!!!
We’ll blame it on Harley!...;0)...
Try mountain goats.
Never give a child (or anyone for that matter) who is unable to control a particular dog the responsibilty of controlling that dog.
My grandkids ask to walk my dog I say... ‘no, he’s too strong for you to control’.
Commonsense
The local VA is only a place for us to go to die,,,
Nyquil is good enough for me,,,(just getting over the flu).
TANKS for askin’ though...
This might surprise you but I do hope you get your problem resolved and that your flu goes away and you have no complications from it.
[my sister’s little kids have had “the flu” for months...I worry that it’s something more sinister going around]
Hail Eris!
I’ve over-exerted myself this week.
Please come walk Odin....:)
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